Materials suitable as crosslinkable binder components

A material (I) suitable as crosslinkable binder component for pigment-containing coatings and having an average molecular weight of from 25,000 to 150,000 is obtainable by reacting (1) a polyurethane (II) comprising a) 1 mol of a diol (III) having an average molecular weight of from 400 to 4,000, b) from 0.1 to 10 mol of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diol (IV) of 2 to 18 carbon atoms, c) from 0.01 to 10 mol of an aromatic diol (V) of 8 to 36 carbon atoms, d) from 0.01 to 2 mol of a trihydric or polyhydric alcohol (VI) of 3 to 18 carbon atoms, e) from 0.01 to 8 mol of a polyhydric alcohol (VII) of 3 to 40 carbon atoms which contains a tertiary amino group and f) an amount of a diisocyanate (VIII) of 6 to 34 carbon atoms such that the molar ratio of isocyanate groups to the total number of hydroxyl groups in (III) to (VII) is from 1.05:1 to 1.4:1, with (2) a compound (IX) which contains one or more hydroxyl groups and one or more amino groups reactive towards isocyanate groups, the amount of (IX) being such that the number of reactive amino groups corresponds to the number of isocyanate groups in the polyurethane (II). The materials may be used as crosslinkable binder components for pigment-containing coatings, in particular for the production of magnetic recording materials.