David Savastano, Editor02.07.22
Pigments and dyes supply the color we see in our everyday lives, whether it is textiles, cars, homes and so much more. For ink manufacturers, pigments create the unique packaging and publications consumers notice.
For ink manufacturers, pigments play such an important role. First and foremost, they must meet regulatory standards.
“INX is always looking for pigments that are easier to process, require less energy to disperse and are heavy metal free,” said Mark Hill, SVP of R&D for INX International Ink Co. “This is important in order to conform with the constantly changing landscape of regulatory concerns brought to us by customers, brand owners, NGO’s, and others.”
“Regulatory compliance is a given,” said Sun Chemical CTO Russell Schwartz. “Sun Chemical seeks pigments that go beyond compliance and achieve the lowest practical levels of any substances that are perceived to be unhealthy or environmentally unattractive. Sun Chemical also strives to ensure that the pigments it buys are produced as sustainably as possible and without child labor. We strongly believe that supply is more secure when manufacturers adhere to these principles. Pigments that streamline manufacturing due to ease of handling are also preferred.”
“As food packaging is an important market for hubergroup, it is essential for us that pigments are compliant with the corresponding regulatory requirements,” hubergroup said.
Innovation and service are also critical in selecting a pigment manufacturer.
“INX is a technology driven company and we always want to partner with suppliers that offer innovation,” said Rick Westrom, INX SVP of strategic sourcing. “Service is also a key driver, especially with today’s supply chain challenges.”
“It’s worth noting that innovation and service come in many forms,” Schwartz said. “Service can include on-time delivery in clean, undamaged packaging or being able to provide specific information that is normally not included in a certificate of analysis. There are also many levels of innovation which impact the working properties of pigments. It could include the amount of NIAS (non-intentionally added substances) or how the pigment impacts the press speed that an ink can achieve.”
hubergroup noted that when it comes to sourcing pigments, availability is currently the most relevant factor.
“Additionally, costs, quality consistency and food packaging approval play a significant role,” hubergroup added. “Service is especially important to us in the context of food packaging requirements as we expect easy access to all relevant documents and information regarding regulatory aspects. Of course, we always keep up to date with innovations as well, but not much has happened in this respect in the pigments sector in recent years.”
The Importance of Sustainability
Ink manufacturers say that sustainability is an important factor when selecting pigment suppliers.
“Sustainability is a very important consideration when it comes to sourcing pigments,” said Schwartz. “If a pigment supplier can demonstrate a sustainability advantage, then preferential consideration for that pigment will be given.”
hubergroup believes that the sustainable use of resources is important and therefore pursues a holistic sustainability approach.
“As there is little potential for renewable raw materials for pigments, we attach major importance to a manufacturing process that follows high environmental standards,” hubergroup reported. “Since a lot of water is needed during pigment preparation, we have a state-of-the-art water treatment facility at our pigment production site in India. This facility has a great environmental performance and allows us to reuse a large share of our wastewater with very low energy consumption. And, of course, we expect equally high environmental standards from our external pigment suppliers.”
“Sustainability is important to INX in all facets of our company,” acknowledged Hill. “This includes raw materials we use so pigments are not overlooked. Sustainability has many definitions in manufacturing; it could mean bio-renewable content, energy efficient manufacturing, ecologically friendly produced products, or bio-degradable/compostable materials.”
The Pigment Market Today
According to leading research analysts, the pigment market is sizable, and it is healthy.
Nikhil Pampatwar, head - research & intelligence for Verified Market Research, places the size of the global pigment markets at more than $28 billion.
“As per the estimates from Verified Market Research, the global pigment market stands at $28.85 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.61% until year 2028, reaching a market value of $39.56 billion,” said Pampatwar. “The market growth is supported due to increased demand for pigments with functional benefits.
“Organic pigments are being increasingly used to enhance aesthetics and the functional values in both paints and plastics,” Pampatwar added. “The plethora of color offered by organic pigments is also one of the prime factors driving the growth of the global organic pigments market.”
Rahul Pandita, client partner for Persistence Market Research (PMR), noted that PMR estimates the global organic pigments to be worth around $6.2 billion in 2021, while the inorganic pigments market is estimated to be nearly $20.1 billion for the year.
Pandita reported that the pigment industry witnessed a double whammy of shrunken demand as well as supply side constraints during the pandemic, making it a painful period for the sector.
“Pigment demand suffered significantly during the year 2020, especially as the automotive sector faced massive production halts as vehicle sales plummeted to unprecedented levels,” added Pandita. “Sliding demand from the construction sector only made the situation worse. On the supply side, early disruptions in production bases across China impacted whatever demand was available in other parts of the world. Even as demand started clawing back to normalcy during the last part of the year, raw materials price hikes squeezed margins.”
According to Coherent Market Insights (CMI), the global pigments market was valued around $16,669.9 million in 2020. Organic pigments accounted for 35.3% of total pigments market, while inorganic pigments accounted for 49.8% of the global pigment market in terms of value in 2020.
“Growth of the global pigment market is primarily driven by high demand from the Asia Pacific region and this region accounted for nearly 42% of the global pigment demand in 2020,” CMI analysts reported.
Supply Chain Concerns
The analysts noted that there remain concerns about the availability and cost of key pigments and raw materials that help formulate these pigments, such as intermediates. They believe that these issues will continue into the near future.
“Many industries were severely affected due to COVID-19 and it had also affected global pigment market,” CMI’s analyst reported. “Many countries had imposed strict lockdowns during various COVID-19 to limit the spread of the virus. In 2020, printing inks demand had been impacted to some extent due to the pandemic, but increased demand for packaging and labeling solutions for essential goods and food had enabled speedy recovery and limited the impact of the pandemic. Analysts from Coherent Market Insights have estimated fast recovery of global pigment market in 2021 and demand will reach pre-COVID level by first half of 2022.”
“The volatility of raw material prices is one of the major factors restraining the growth of the pigments market,” said Pampatwar. “Anatase/rutile is the most commonly used raw material in the manufacturing of pigments (considering titanium dioxide pigments to form the major part of the pigments market). Synthetic rutile is a synthesized form of naturally occurring rutile ore. The price of this raw material is increasing due to the growing demand for titanium dioxide pigments.
“Similarly, natural gas is a raw material used to produce carbon black,” added Pampatwar. “Owing to the recent shale gas boom in the US market, its prices are expected to remain low. In 2020, many players such as Sun Chemical, BASF SE, DIC Corporation, and Lanxess had increased the price of organic and inorganic pigments by 5-20%. Increase in the prices of titanium dioxide and carbon black in regions such as Europe, APAC, and North America after the impact of COVID-19 has also impacted the overall pigment market. Thus, fluctuating raw material prices result in volatility in final prices of pigments to be used by the end-use industries, which is restraining the demand for the pigment.”
“Disruptions in the global shipping industry during the new year caused massive backlogs and longer wait time for customers, further hampering revenue realization. In summary, the pandemic year has been one which the industry would like to forget as quickly as possible,” Pandita concluded.
Keith Jacques, associate consultant for Smithers, said that the pandemic led to a series of ongoing disruptions to the day-to-day operations of the pigment industry, its raw material suppliers, and its customers. He pointing to temporary closures of facilities as governments imposed lockdowns, inabilities to receive raw materials on time or deliver finished goods due to similar problems in the transportation sectors, and halting of almost all R&D work, with staff working from home either full time or for two to three days per week.
As a result, prices across the board have increased, and continue to do so, as production schedules are extended and transportation of goods suffers from lack of containers and a shortage of truck drivers in Europe and North America.
“There is a widespread acceptance over the inevitability of ever-rising prices and suppliers are finding little or no resistance from their customers to new increases,” Jacques said. “The problems with containers being in the wrong places is expected to be resolved by mid-2022, but the shortage of truck drivers will take much longer to resolve. As a result, delivery lead times will still be longer in 2022 than pre-pandemic, and prices are forecast to remain high throughout most of next year although the rates of increase may slow.”
“As things stand at this point, pigment demand has recovered at a faster pace than previously thought owing to the pent-up demand and ‘catch up effect,’” Pandita said. “However raw material shortages and cost inflation is the Achilles’ heel that is projected to weigh down the industry in the short to medium term. More recently, unavailability and huge hikes in prices of key raw materials such as urea, coal, phthalic anhydride, cuprous chloride etc. led to shortages in the production and availability of blue pigments, impacting customers on a global level. The situation is expected to remain volatile in the near future as there are no easy fixes to these issues.”
“There are different precursors or intermediates used for manufacturing of various pigments,” said CMI’s analyst. “Titanium dioxide, iron oxide, lead oxides, and chromates are major inorganic pigments. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) based pigments accounts for around two-thirds of pigment volume. In 2021, increasing demand for titanium dioxide and uncertainty of raw material availability has increased concerns.”
“Increased transportation cost and higher freight rates have further raised concerns of companies in the pigment market,” added the CMI analyst. “The above reasons have contributed to an increase in cost of production and many companies have taken initiatives to hike pigment prices to increase profit margins.”
Superior Daylight Fluorescent Colorants for Printing Ink Applications
Brilliant Group is focused on making it easy for companies to implement daylight fluorescent colors. Each product in our broad portfolio of pigments, colorants, dispersions, paints and ink concentrates is available in the same, easy-to-order, formulation anywhere in the world. Owned and run by chemists, we involve our R&D team directly in supporting customers to ensure success.
www.fluorescentcolor.com
Cabot Corporation
Cabot Corporation is a leading manufacturer of carbon black and other specialty chemicals and have long supplied pigments to the inks industry. Our global reach enables us to work closely with customers to meet the highest standards for performance, quality and service. Our global production network and applications development facilities provide our customers with global service capabilities as well as the latest technical innovations.
Our specialty carbon blacks for inks have been formulated to meet application-specific needs and are manufactured to exacting standards.
www.cabotcorp.com
Global Leader in Fluorescent Colorants
Cleveland-based DayGlo Color Corp is a global leader in fluorescent colorants, offering a diverse product line and customized color solutions for packaging and consumer goods, plastics, graphic arts, paints and coatings, dyes and textiles, as well as ingredients for the personal care and cosmetics industries. DayGlo’s diverse range of products can be used alone or combined with conventional colors to help achieve cleaner, brighter, more sophisticated colors. With DayGlo, it’s color. Only better.
www.dayglo.com
Leading Manufacturer of Color Pigments for the Coatings, Plastics and Ink Industries
DCL is a global leader in the supply of color pigments and dispersions for the coatings, plastics and ink industries. And while the name DCL may be new, the people, philosophy, and innovation behind it are anything but. DCL is poised to positively impact our customer’s business by continuing to innovate, rapidly respond to customer needs, and be the difference our customers are looking for. DCL invites the world to “See the Difference We Make.”
www.pigments.com
Discover Our Color Solutions For Your Inks
Ferro Pigments is a global leader in CICPs, Ultramarines and other pigment families, including high-performance Bismuth Vanadates, Transparent Iron Oxides and a broad range of organic Pigments. We develop Color Solutions for the plastics, coatings, inks, construction, cosmetics, artists’ colors and leather markets, as well as other industrial markets.
Visit us at ACS 2022 and discover our Color Solutions!
5-7 April 9 (Indiana) – Ferro booth #1466
www.ferro.com/Pigments
Producers of a Wide Range of Pigments
MCC Pigments is from one of the leading producers of pigments based in India. MCC produces a wide range of pigments for the ink industry ranging from Phthalocyanine Pigments, Activated CPC Blues and Classical Azo pigments. Our huge capacity for producing these pigments and our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility make us a quality and trusted supplier to some of the top ink makers.
www.meghnacolour.com
The Expert in Effect Pigments: Aluminium, Gold Bronze, Colored Aluminium, Polychromatic
Schlenk Metallic Pigments is a leading manufacturer of effect pigments. With production sites and application technology departments in Europe and the USA, SCHLENK has a broad sales and service network.
With the three new Zenexo®-pigments SCHLENK strives for the gold effect for inks & printing applications. It’s available in the hues of yellow gold, silver and copper: Mix your own color shade!
www.schlenk.com
Global producer of Complex Inorganic Color Pigments
The Shepherd Color Company is a global producer of Complex Inorganic Color Pigments (CICPs) used in a variety of industries and applications where performance is critical under the most extreme conditions. Our main products, Arctic® Infrared Reflective Pigments, Dynamix® Easy Dispersible Pigments, and StarLight® Special Effect Pigments are supplied to customers around the world. Our pigments are highly engineered ceramic colorants, meaning they are more durable, more consistent, and more functional.
www.shepherdcolor.com
Trust Chem is the Biggest Producer and Exporter of Organic Pigments
Trust Chem is the fourth largest supplier of organic pigments in the world, with headquarters located in Hangzhou, China. Subsidiaries in Europe, Turkey, North America, Australia, India and South Africa make Trust Chem a true global supplier. In Trust Chem’s four manufacturing plants in Asia, we produce a wide range of pigment, including Classical Azo, HPP Azo, Benzimidazolone, Disazo Condensation, Anthraquinone, Isoindolinone, Isoindoline, Quinacridone and Phthalocyanie pigments.
www.trustchemusa.com
For ink manufacturers, pigments play such an important role. First and foremost, they must meet regulatory standards.
“INX is always looking for pigments that are easier to process, require less energy to disperse and are heavy metal free,” said Mark Hill, SVP of R&D for INX International Ink Co. “This is important in order to conform with the constantly changing landscape of regulatory concerns brought to us by customers, brand owners, NGO’s, and others.”
“Regulatory compliance is a given,” said Sun Chemical CTO Russell Schwartz. “Sun Chemical seeks pigments that go beyond compliance and achieve the lowest practical levels of any substances that are perceived to be unhealthy or environmentally unattractive. Sun Chemical also strives to ensure that the pigments it buys are produced as sustainably as possible and without child labor. We strongly believe that supply is more secure when manufacturers adhere to these principles. Pigments that streamline manufacturing due to ease of handling are also preferred.”
“As food packaging is an important market for hubergroup, it is essential for us that pigments are compliant with the corresponding regulatory requirements,” hubergroup said.
Innovation and service are also critical in selecting a pigment manufacturer.
“INX is a technology driven company and we always want to partner with suppliers that offer innovation,” said Rick Westrom, INX SVP of strategic sourcing. “Service is also a key driver, especially with today’s supply chain challenges.”
“It’s worth noting that innovation and service come in many forms,” Schwartz said. “Service can include on-time delivery in clean, undamaged packaging or being able to provide specific information that is normally not included in a certificate of analysis. There are also many levels of innovation which impact the working properties of pigments. It could include the amount of NIAS (non-intentionally added substances) or how the pigment impacts the press speed that an ink can achieve.”
hubergroup noted that when it comes to sourcing pigments, availability is currently the most relevant factor.
“Additionally, costs, quality consistency and food packaging approval play a significant role,” hubergroup added. “Service is especially important to us in the context of food packaging requirements as we expect easy access to all relevant documents and information regarding regulatory aspects. Of course, we always keep up to date with innovations as well, but not much has happened in this respect in the pigments sector in recent years.”
The Importance of Sustainability
Ink manufacturers say that sustainability is an important factor when selecting pigment suppliers.
“Sustainability is a very important consideration when it comes to sourcing pigments,” said Schwartz. “If a pigment supplier can demonstrate a sustainability advantage, then preferential consideration for that pigment will be given.”
hubergroup believes that the sustainable use of resources is important and therefore pursues a holistic sustainability approach.
“As there is little potential for renewable raw materials for pigments, we attach major importance to a manufacturing process that follows high environmental standards,” hubergroup reported. “Since a lot of water is needed during pigment preparation, we have a state-of-the-art water treatment facility at our pigment production site in India. This facility has a great environmental performance and allows us to reuse a large share of our wastewater with very low energy consumption. And, of course, we expect equally high environmental standards from our external pigment suppliers.”
“Sustainability is important to INX in all facets of our company,” acknowledged Hill. “This includes raw materials we use so pigments are not overlooked. Sustainability has many definitions in manufacturing; it could mean bio-renewable content, energy efficient manufacturing, ecologically friendly produced products, or bio-degradable/compostable materials.”
The Pigment Market Today
According to leading research analysts, the pigment market is sizable, and it is healthy.
Nikhil Pampatwar, head - research & intelligence for Verified Market Research, places the size of the global pigment markets at more than $28 billion.
“As per the estimates from Verified Market Research, the global pigment market stands at $28.85 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.61% until year 2028, reaching a market value of $39.56 billion,” said Pampatwar. “The market growth is supported due to increased demand for pigments with functional benefits.
“Organic pigments are being increasingly used to enhance aesthetics and the functional values in both paints and plastics,” Pampatwar added. “The plethora of color offered by organic pigments is also one of the prime factors driving the growth of the global organic pigments market.”
Rahul Pandita, client partner for Persistence Market Research (PMR), noted that PMR estimates the global organic pigments to be worth around $6.2 billion in 2021, while the inorganic pigments market is estimated to be nearly $20.1 billion for the year.
Pandita reported that the pigment industry witnessed a double whammy of shrunken demand as well as supply side constraints during the pandemic, making it a painful period for the sector.
“Pigment demand suffered significantly during the year 2020, especially as the automotive sector faced massive production halts as vehicle sales plummeted to unprecedented levels,” added Pandita. “Sliding demand from the construction sector only made the situation worse. On the supply side, early disruptions in production bases across China impacted whatever demand was available in other parts of the world. Even as demand started clawing back to normalcy during the last part of the year, raw materials price hikes squeezed margins.”
According to Coherent Market Insights (CMI), the global pigments market was valued around $16,669.9 million in 2020. Organic pigments accounted for 35.3% of total pigments market, while inorganic pigments accounted for 49.8% of the global pigment market in terms of value in 2020.
“Growth of the global pigment market is primarily driven by high demand from the Asia Pacific region and this region accounted for nearly 42% of the global pigment demand in 2020,” CMI analysts reported.
Supply Chain Concerns
The analysts noted that there remain concerns about the availability and cost of key pigments and raw materials that help formulate these pigments, such as intermediates. They believe that these issues will continue into the near future.
“Many industries were severely affected due to COVID-19 and it had also affected global pigment market,” CMI’s analyst reported. “Many countries had imposed strict lockdowns during various COVID-19 to limit the spread of the virus. In 2020, printing inks demand had been impacted to some extent due to the pandemic, but increased demand for packaging and labeling solutions for essential goods and food had enabled speedy recovery and limited the impact of the pandemic. Analysts from Coherent Market Insights have estimated fast recovery of global pigment market in 2021 and demand will reach pre-COVID level by first half of 2022.”
“The volatility of raw material prices is one of the major factors restraining the growth of the pigments market,” said Pampatwar. “Anatase/rutile is the most commonly used raw material in the manufacturing of pigments (considering titanium dioxide pigments to form the major part of the pigments market). Synthetic rutile is a synthesized form of naturally occurring rutile ore. The price of this raw material is increasing due to the growing demand for titanium dioxide pigments.
“Similarly, natural gas is a raw material used to produce carbon black,” added Pampatwar. “Owing to the recent shale gas boom in the US market, its prices are expected to remain low. In 2020, many players such as Sun Chemical, BASF SE, DIC Corporation, and Lanxess had increased the price of organic and inorganic pigments by 5-20%. Increase in the prices of titanium dioxide and carbon black in regions such as Europe, APAC, and North America after the impact of COVID-19 has also impacted the overall pigment market. Thus, fluctuating raw material prices result in volatility in final prices of pigments to be used by the end-use industries, which is restraining the demand for the pigment.”
“Disruptions in the global shipping industry during the new year caused massive backlogs and longer wait time for customers, further hampering revenue realization. In summary, the pandemic year has been one which the industry would like to forget as quickly as possible,” Pandita concluded.
Keith Jacques, associate consultant for Smithers, said that the pandemic led to a series of ongoing disruptions to the day-to-day operations of the pigment industry, its raw material suppliers, and its customers. He pointing to temporary closures of facilities as governments imposed lockdowns, inabilities to receive raw materials on time or deliver finished goods due to similar problems in the transportation sectors, and halting of almost all R&D work, with staff working from home either full time or for two to three days per week.
As a result, prices across the board have increased, and continue to do so, as production schedules are extended and transportation of goods suffers from lack of containers and a shortage of truck drivers in Europe and North America.
“There is a widespread acceptance over the inevitability of ever-rising prices and suppliers are finding little or no resistance from their customers to new increases,” Jacques said. “The problems with containers being in the wrong places is expected to be resolved by mid-2022, but the shortage of truck drivers will take much longer to resolve. As a result, delivery lead times will still be longer in 2022 than pre-pandemic, and prices are forecast to remain high throughout most of next year although the rates of increase may slow.”
“As things stand at this point, pigment demand has recovered at a faster pace than previously thought owing to the pent-up demand and ‘catch up effect,’” Pandita said. “However raw material shortages and cost inflation is the Achilles’ heel that is projected to weigh down the industry in the short to medium term. More recently, unavailability and huge hikes in prices of key raw materials such as urea, coal, phthalic anhydride, cuprous chloride etc. led to shortages in the production and availability of blue pigments, impacting customers on a global level. The situation is expected to remain volatile in the near future as there are no easy fixes to these issues.”
“There are different precursors or intermediates used for manufacturing of various pigments,” said CMI’s analyst. “Titanium dioxide, iron oxide, lead oxides, and chromates are major inorganic pigments. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) based pigments accounts for around two-thirds of pigment volume. In 2021, increasing demand for titanium dioxide and uncertainty of raw material availability has increased concerns.”
“Increased transportation cost and higher freight rates have further raised concerns of companies in the pigment market,” added the CMI analyst. “The above reasons have contributed to an increase in cost of production and many companies have taken initiatives to hike pigment prices to increase profit margins.”
Superior Daylight Fluorescent Colorants for Printing Ink Applications
Brilliant Group is focused on making it easy for companies to implement daylight fluorescent colors. Each product in our broad portfolio of pigments, colorants, dispersions, paints and ink concentrates is available in the same, easy-to-order, formulation anywhere in the world. Owned and run by chemists, we involve our R&D team directly in supporting customers to ensure success.
www.fluorescentcolor.com
Cabot Corporation
Cabot Corporation is a leading manufacturer of carbon black and other specialty chemicals and have long supplied pigments to the inks industry. Our global reach enables us to work closely with customers to meet the highest standards for performance, quality and service. Our global production network and applications development facilities provide our customers with global service capabilities as well as the latest technical innovations.
Our specialty carbon blacks for inks have been formulated to meet application-specific needs and are manufactured to exacting standards.
www.cabotcorp.com
Global Leader in Fluorescent Colorants
Cleveland-based DayGlo Color Corp is a global leader in fluorescent colorants, offering a diverse product line and customized color solutions for packaging and consumer goods, plastics, graphic arts, paints and coatings, dyes and textiles, as well as ingredients for the personal care and cosmetics industries. DayGlo’s diverse range of products can be used alone or combined with conventional colors to help achieve cleaner, brighter, more sophisticated colors. With DayGlo, it’s color. Only better.
www.dayglo.com
Leading Manufacturer of Color Pigments for the Coatings, Plastics and Ink Industries
DCL is a global leader in the supply of color pigments and dispersions for the coatings, plastics and ink industries. And while the name DCL may be new, the people, philosophy, and innovation behind it are anything but. DCL is poised to positively impact our customer’s business by continuing to innovate, rapidly respond to customer needs, and be the difference our customers are looking for. DCL invites the world to “See the Difference We Make.”
www.pigments.com
Discover Our Color Solutions For Your Inks
Ferro Pigments is a global leader in CICPs, Ultramarines and other pigment families, including high-performance Bismuth Vanadates, Transparent Iron Oxides and a broad range of organic Pigments. We develop Color Solutions for the plastics, coatings, inks, construction, cosmetics, artists’ colors and leather markets, as well as other industrial markets.
Visit us at ACS 2022 and discover our Color Solutions!
5-7 April 9 (Indiana) – Ferro booth #1466
www.ferro.com/Pigments
Producers of a Wide Range of Pigments
MCC Pigments is from one of the leading producers of pigments based in India. MCC produces a wide range of pigments for the ink industry ranging from Phthalocyanine Pigments, Activated CPC Blues and Classical Azo pigments. Our huge capacity for producing these pigments and our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility make us a quality and trusted supplier to some of the top ink makers.
www.meghnacolour.com
The Expert in Effect Pigments: Aluminium, Gold Bronze, Colored Aluminium, Polychromatic
Schlenk Metallic Pigments is a leading manufacturer of effect pigments. With production sites and application technology departments in Europe and the USA, SCHLENK has a broad sales and service network.
With the three new Zenexo®-pigments SCHLENK strives for the gold effect for inks & printing applications. It’s available in the hues of yellow gold, silver and copper: Mix your own color shade!
www.schlenk.com
Global producer of Complex Inorganic Color Pigments
The Shepherd Color Company is a global producer of Complex Inorganic Color Pigments (CICPs) used in a variety of industries and applications where performance is critical under the most extreme conditions. Our main products, Arctic® Infrared Reflective Pigments, Dynamix® Easy Dispersible Pigments, and StarLight® Special Effect Pigments are supplied to customers around the world. Our pigments are highly engineered ceramic colorants, meaning they are more durable, more consistent, and more functional.
www.shepherdcolor.com
Trust Chem is the Biggest Producer and Exporter of Organic Pigments
Trust Chem is the fourth largest supplier of organic pigments in the world, with headquarters located in Hangzhou, China. Subsidiaries in Europe, Turkey, North America, Australia, India and South Africa make Trust Chem a true global supplier. In Trust Chem’s four manufacturing plants in Asia, we produce a wide range of pigment, including Classical Azo, HPP Azo, Benzimidazolone, Disazo Condensation, Anthraquinone, Isoindolinone, Isoindoline, Quinacridone and Phthalocyanie pigments.
www.trustchemusa.com