A Dyes & pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance. Pigments are completely or nearly insoluble and chemically unreactive in water or another medium; in contrast, dyes are colored substances which are soluble or go into solution at some stage in their use. Dyes are often organic compounds whereas pigments are often inorganic.
Pigments are essentially coloured powders or Liquid, and are used to produce a full range of colours. We can say pigments are a primary material, to produce all types of paints and colouring material, Enamels, acrylics, pastels, chalks, Coloured pencils, oils textile prints , Inks, Rubbers, Plastics etc.
Supplier: Manufacturers of dyes and pigments like ultramarine blue, malachite green, methylene blue, methyl violet, Red iron oxide , yellow iron oxides
Buyer: Sodium ferrocyanide, sulphur, coaltar pitch
These Organic pigments find wide application in plastics, paints, liquid inks, textiles, rubber, cosmetics, artist colors etc. They have excellent dispertion and ethology characteristics required for painting link requirements with good transparency,gloss and tone. These pigments are homogeneous belonging to Azo or Phthalocyanine groups. The physical, chemical, coloristic as well as fastness properties of the pigments depend to a large extent on the type of binders used, presence of driers, hardness, the substrate and film thickness etc.