While a good quality pigments or paints can make your customers happy, low quality paint can destroy the customer base. Hence, if you want to win the trust of your customers you must manufacture high quality paint. So the prime question that arises is what determines the quality of paint and how you can meet the expectations of your clients by delivering world class paints and coatings.
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Gone are the days when ink dyes meant just black and blue. From pigment blue to pigment green, life is now more colorful with bright colored inks available in the market. Now, what causes ink to be so vibrant and lively? Well, the pigments; these are the life of ink and hence if you want your ink to be popular in the market, you must use the best quality pigments, which are also gradually replacing dyes in ink manufacture process. How to understand which pigment is world class? Any high quality pigment must be:
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Digital textile printing is one of the fastest developing sectors in the industry. And, why not! It has definitely made the task of printing on fabric much easier as compared to the traditional form of textile printing. Digital textile printing is the process of printing designs on pre-treated fabric straight from a modified ink-jet printer.
What are Pigments?
Pigments are generally coloured, organic or inorganic solid powder, and usually are insoluble. They are not affected physically or chemically in the substrate in which they are incorporated. Pigments can give a full range of colours. Pigments have a variety of applications that includes plastics, ink, and coating application. They are obtained in a powder form and are mixed with a liquid to be used as a solution for several applications.Pigments have become an indispensable item in almost all the industries today. There is no industry which does not have some role or the other for pigments in today’s times. Pigments impart color to solids and liquids and help to enhance their look many times over.
Dyeing in textiles goes back to times immemorial. From coloring textiles with vegetables dyes to the modern day technology of the present era, we have come a long way in textile dyeing. As against the ancient times where dyes were made using natural resources, today most of the dyes are manufactured from petroleum based intermediates and coal tars.
Pigments are extremely important in several industries including the rubber industry because it helps in the development of characteristics features like strength and durability that improve the brand name and make it long-lasting. Read on for some of the pigments that are much sought after in the rubber industry.
Pigment printing is one of the essential parts of the textile industry. It refers to the dyeing of clothes and dress materials. There are various types of dyes available in the market which is used for pigment printing. Resistant pigment, pigment dye ink,solvent dyes, ink pigments, resistant pigment, printing ink pigments and artists pigment are some of the popular pigments available.
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As per our beliefs, agriculture is all about nature and natural colors. It may sound odd that dyes are required to colour the agricultural products. But the truth is that agricultural products are in need of colours as much as the artificial products do. From seed treatment to fertilizer colorants, agricultural dyes have extensive use throughout the world in the agricultural field. Most importantly, unlike in other fields where the dyes are used to increase the visual appeal, agricultural dyes perform vital function of identification and differentiation.
Formation of perfect paint with perfect viscosity, spreading capacity, stability and achievement of perfect color shade has to go through a proper system. Lack of quality or perfection in any of the step of formation of perfect paint can give you undesired results. Like other steps, use of good quality dispersant in perfect quantity is very important in formation of paint.
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Food has been one of the most basic requirements for the survival of any living being on the planet. But for human beings food is just not the means of satiating their hunger. It is more of means to pamper and satiate the hunger of the senses. We just not eat the food. But we relish it by enjoying its appearance, aroma, texture, touch and taste. Any food item which pampers our senses gives maximum sense of satisfaction on consumption. Eating of food is just not a process but it is more of an art and science which has touched millions of lives in the world.
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