Red Organic Pigments For Paint, Coating, Plastics,etc
Application:Paint,Inks,Coatings,Plastic,Rubber,Etc.
Main Product:Pigment Red 8,48:1,etc.
MOQ:25KG.
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Hangzhou Tiankai is a professional enterprise which specialized in import and export products and services. It is recognized as one of the medium-small sized and well-know enterprise of zhejiang.To be distributed all over the world, our company specializes mainly in the export goods of more than 90 varieties of both inorganic and organic pigments of top, medium and low grades.
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We have experienced technical staff to run the testing with the customer-formula before shipment. We invest the equipment to give our customers to get the right quality with the right standard.
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As the professional exporter of pigments, we promote with quality pigments to meet quality requirements from different customers.
Sales To All Over The World
Our goal is to be the shortest supplying line to our clients based on our products related in pigments and other chemicals in paints, printing and packaging industries.
Wildely Application
Widely used in the colorations of solvent.ink ,water- based ink, plastic, coating, rubber, leather, and coating printing as well as stationery products and so on.
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What is Pigment?
A pigment is a material that changes the colour of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. In other words, it’s a substance that appears a certain colour because it selectively absorbs certain wavelength of light.
The primary purpose to use pigments is to provide colour to materials, whether they are textiles or paints. Some people often consider pigments and dyes to be the same but they’re quite different. The major difference between the both is in terms of their solubility.
While a dye can dissolve by itself in a liquid, pigments can be dissolved in a liquid with the help of a binder. Dyes are primarily applied in the textile and paper industry, pigments are used in industries such as colouring paints, inks, cosmetics, and plastics.
Types of Pigments
Based on the method of their formulation, pigments can be categorized into two types: inorganic pigments and organic pigments.
01.
Organic Pigments
This type of pigments occurs naturally and they’ve been used for centuries. They’re quite simple in their chemical structure. They’re named organic as they contain minerals and metals that give them their colour. Organic pigment manufacturers produce them through a simple process that’s made of washing, drying, powdering and combining into a formulation.
Compared to inorganic pigments, these usage of these pigments is less frequent and that’s why there are limited number of organic pigment suppliers. These pigments are used when the required colour strength isn’t too much.
02.
Inorganic Pigments
As you can guess by its name, this type of pigments is exactly the opposite type of organic pigments. These pigments are also known as “synthetic pigments.” They’re formulized in labs and offer great scope of control to inorganic pigment manufacturers.Inorganic pigments are manufactured by relatively simple chemical processes such as oxidation.
Inorganic pigment suppliers supply this type of pigments mainly to paints, plastics, synthetic fibres and ink industry. In uses where bright colours are required, organic pigments are used as they bolster high colour strength. Inorganic pigments include white opaque pigments which are commonly used to lighten other colours and also to provide opacity.
Two other types of pigments are metallic pigments and industrial pigments.
Metallic pigments, as implied in the name, include metal pigments such as zinc and aluminium pigments. While industrial pigments are the pigments that are widely used in the industrial applications and include organic, inorganic and the metallic pigments.
Application of Pigments on Cotton and Other Cellulosic Fibers
Pigments application on cotton fabric in almost all segments right from protective coating paints to decorative coating paints. Other application of pigments include emulsion paints, resin, and oil-based paints, aqueous based paints like lime etc., distempers, automotive finishes etc.
What is the difference between a pigment and a dye?
Both pigments and dyes are used to color different materials, but the way in which they do it is very, very different. It’s all got to do with solubility – the tendency to dissolve in a liquid, especially water. Think for a moment of two glasses of water standing side by side – the one is mixed with salt, the other with mud.
Solubility
The muddy water is brown, with all sorts of dirt and mud particles suspended in the water. Give it enough time and the particles will settle on the bottom of the glass. This mixture is called a suspension.
Now take the salt water. Mixing the salt with the water results in it completely dissolving in the water. Put a lid on the glass to avoid evaporation, and you won’t get a layer of salt particles settling on the bottom of the glass. So this mixture is called a solution.
Pigments, like the mud in the above example, are finely ground particles of color that get suspended in a liquid (usually not water, and called the dispersing agent or vehicle). Whereas dyes are chemicals that, like the salt above, get dissolved in a medium (such as water) to create a colorant.
Application
The differences between pigments and dyes don’t stop there. How the colorant actually attaches itself to the material also differs greatly between pigments and dyes. While dyes chemically bind with the material, pigments are painted onto the surface, so they physically bind.
The pigment, mixed with the dispersing agent, is applied to the base and forms a coating on top. The dispersing agent basically makes it stick to the surface of the material.
Dyes, on the other hand, chemically bind to a material – they’re not painted on as layer but actually become part of the material. Whether the dye will attach itself or not depends on the chemical nature of the material being dyed and the dye itself. Sometimes, a dye needs another chemical to bind and that chemical is called a mordant.
FAQ
Q: What is a pigment and what is its function?
A: A pigment is a substance that imparts color to a material. Pigments can be found in many materials, including plants, animals, and human-made products such as paints and dyes. The function of a pigment is to add color or other visual effects to the material in which it is found.
Q: How long do pigments last?
A: An unopened pigment product's typical shelf life is 3-10 years if kept in the proper storage conditions. Opened pigment product containers should be discarded after 12 months or sooner if the product meets disposal conditions found in the product information or pigment guide.
Q: Does pigment fade?
A: A field of interest that is prominent within the art and art history community is the determination of the photostability of different pigments. As paintings grow older, the original color deteriorates causing fading and in some cases a complete change in color from the original work.
Q: Is pigment better than dye?
A: Es-pecially when the label is exposed to UV light for many months, the pigment ink holds its colour, quality and vibrancy better than dye. Speaking of water resistance and long life durability plus colour consistency the winner is pigment ink.
Q: What is pigment good for?
A: A 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.
Q: What makes pigments special?
A: Pigments are resistant to light, weathering, heat, and chemicals such as acids & alkalis. This depends on the demands of the particular application. Dye is a substance that imparts color with some degree of permanence. Polymer Soluble Dyes are soluble in the medium in which they are dispersed.
Q: What are the 3 main types of pigments?
A: More complicated diagrams will be displayed to illustrate the structures of the three types of pigments that are present during the aging of leaves: chlorophylls, carotenoids, and anthocyanins.
Q: Is pigment soluble in water?
A: Water-soluble pigments are those pigments that can be dissolved in water. Complete answer: -Phycobilin is a class of hot water-soluble pigments. Phycobilins consist of two kinds of pigments. These two types of pigments are Phycocyanin and Phycoerythrin.
Q: How does pigment work?
A: A pigment is a material which selectively absorbs certain wavelengths of light and then reflects other wavelengths. The color which the eye sees is the color given by the wavelength of light which is reflected off the material.
Q: What is pigment made of?
A: Synthetic organic pigments are derived from coal tars and other petrochemicals. Inorganic pigments are made by relatively simple chemical reactions—notably oxidation—or are found naturally as earths. Inorganic pigments include white opaque pigments used to provide opacity and to lighten other colours.
Q: What chemicals are in pigments?
A: Most inorganic pigments are dense mined products. Some examples of inorganic pigments are: iron oxides, titanium dioxide, cadmiums, lead chromates, chromium oxide, and mixed metal oxides. Some pigments including those containing cadmium, lead, and mercury are considered heavy metals and are often regulated.
Q: What is the most common pigment?
A: Carotenoids are the most common group of pigments found in nature. Over 600 different kinds of carotenoids are found in animals, plants, and microorganisms.
Q: What is a pigment example?
A: Examples of synthetic organic pigments are: alizarin, azo-pigments (the yellow, orange and red colour range), phthalocyanine (blue and green colour range) and quinacridone (a lightfast red-violet pigment). Inorganic pigments (of mineral origins) are metal compounds, for example oxides.
Q: How are pigments formed?
A: Synthetic organic pigments are derived from coal tars and other petrochemicals. Inorganic pigments are made by relatively simple chemical reactions—notably oxidation—or are found naturally as earths. Inorganic pigments include white opaque pigments used to provide opacity and to lighten other colours.
Q: What are the 3 primary colors of pigment?
A: The primary colors of pigment are cyan, magenta, and yellow, which can be mixed to make many other colors, but demonstrating this can be difficult if you want to use markers. Traditional markers labeled cyan, magenta, or yellow often are not actually those colors, but close approximations.
Q: What is the point of pigments?
A: Pigments are what give colour to our skin, hair and eyes. They are also what colour plants. Pigments make things appear to be certain colours because they absorb and reflect different wavelengths of light.
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