The world is a canvas painted with a myriad of colours, and pigment pastes and powders play a vital part in bringing it to life. These versatile powders are an essential component in various industries, transforming everything from art to automobiles. Dive into the fascinating realm of pigment powders and discover their significance, applications, and the industries that depend on them.
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Today, there has been a revolution in the plastic industry with so many beautifully coloured hues of products being made available by the manufacturers. A wide choice is available in the shades and forms as you have products available in several tints such as pigment blue, pigment orange, pigment yellow or any other colour shade. These pigments have definitely made the world of plastics a visual treat to the eyes!
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Dyes and pigments play an important role as colorants in the plastic industry. The beautiful pastel shaded plastic store ware or the vividly coloured plastic containers are all a result of dyes and pigments used in their making. Pigment orange, pigment blue, pigment green; you name it and you have an attractive piece of plastic ware with that colour tint in some store or the other. However, in today’s times the scope of pigments and dyes in plastics are not limited merely to lending hues and shades. They also make an impact on sustainability, processability and compliance.
Dyes and pigments brighten and add vibrancy to our lives. Though pigments have touched an average individual’s life in every possible way, they form the basis for earning the daily bread and butter for an artist or a painter. Pigments help the artist to create beautiful pictorial visions on canvas which is savoured by each and every other individual.
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Pigments in layman’s terms are materials that possess certain properties that enable them to lend color to other materials. A lot of varieties of pigments can be found in the market what with them having a wide application in almost all spheres of life. However, the properties of each pigment determine the application for which they are most suited and selected.
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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.
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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Pigments can be considered as the heart and the soul of the textile industry, although pigments and dyes are used in a most of industries, right from coating to construction and everything in between. However, it is estimated that around 70% of pigments produced are consumed by the textile industry alone. Thus, textile industry is the primary consumer of pigments.