Story about Shanghai Caison and water-based pigment paste

Shanghai Caison founder is a female who is one of few female senior engineers in organic pigments in China, is almost the only one female organic pigment senior engineer that works for management of industrial enterprise. Her name is Xingzhi Yu.

At the beginning of the enterprise establishment in 2005, the founder and enterprise corporation Xingzhi Yu puts the enterprise in the manufacturing and developing high-quality water-based pigment paste!

1.Background advantage

Shanghai Caison has state-owned background, there is still state-owned shares now. 30 years ago, Shanghai Ink Factory (state-owned) firstly developed and produced the textile screen printing water-based pigment paste in China, and then had experienced more than 20 years of development and change. And now Shanghai Caison team headed by Xingzhi Yu, still having five key employees previously worked in the Shanghai Ink Factory, they are working for more  than 30years.

Nearly half of Shanghai Caison team of managing and technical staff is from Shanghai Ink Factory ( later renamed Shanghai Peony ink). They actively joined the working for water based pigment paste business in Shanghai Caison.

State-owned background and professional technology team with pigment paste manufacturing experiences, making Shanghai Caison steady develop in pigment paste industry from beginning to the present.

2.Industry trends push

During the 11 years from the establishment of Shanghai Caison, the developing of coatings indutry is so rapid, the competition is very fierce. For formulation type products, the investment is not large. A coatings factory can be invested by only needing formulation and equipment. From the pigment powders colored for coatings to match coatings colors by pigment paste,  pigment color paste is more easy and quickly for customer service, so it is favored by paint engineers soon.

Over the past 5 years,  with the serious controlling of VOC and requipement of green sustainable development in coatings industry, the development of water-based coatings is a meteoric rise in speed! Under the boosting of coatings industry, water-based pigment color paste growthes rapidly. More and more pigment paste factories are appeared.

3. Standardized management and keep moving forward

We use refined and data-based ways to manage the manufacturing of water-based pigment paste. Over 300 types of water based pigment dispersion need more than 500 types of raw materials and auxiliaries, complete running of the internal network and management to make enterprises run efficiently!

Continues improving of equipment and technology prompts the all kinds of pigment paste standards in Shanghai Caison keep rising, maintaining industry-leading! We have more than 60 sets of dispersed equipments, enterprise scale leads the pigment paste industry in China.

High standards and strict requirement is only to create high quality water based pigment paste, to provide customers trust and confidence.

Any fluorescent color for your choice in this warm Winter

This week, Shanghai Caison Market Dept.introduces four fluorescent pigment paste colors for you to warm this Winter, which was based on the actual pigment paste orders this month. They are:

 CTH-0001 Fluorescent Cerise;

 CTH-0009 Fluorescent Red violet;

 CTH-0002 Fluorescent Golden yellow;

 CTH-0005 Fluorescent Orange yellow;

We have more than 300 colors of water based pigment paste, and fluorescent colors are 33, the main pigment paste series are CTH series eco-friendly type and 8 series generic type.  The colors we introduced now are 4of 25 colors in CTH series fluorescent pigment paste for textile.

The different colors of water based pigment pastes and different series of pigment color paste are respectively descriped by different letters and numbers; Some similar colors pigment pastes in the same series, but the performance and characteristics are different with each other; So please do the good communication with our pre-sale servicers or distributors before ordering, to avoid the error of color choice.

Shanghai Caison produces pigment paste CTH-0002 Fluorescent Orange yellow, CTH-0002B Fluorescent Orange yellow and CTH-0002C Fluorescent Orange yellow. They are all fluorescent orange yellow color, but there are significantly different fastness in washing, migration, perspiration,sunlight and other performances. The user must make a full understanding and choose suitable color for applications.

Shanghai Caison has inherited 30 years of professional producing technology in water-based pigment paste industry, with state-owned resources background, fine and data-based management, focusing on water-based pigment paste manufacturing and R&D areas. Our distribution network is covering 80% of Chinese provinces and cities, ordering on the line is more convenient and quick, welcome to consult with us by 021-62508979.

水性色浆在低温天气下使用要注意什么？

水性色浆是以颜料及以其为基本成分的水性制品，水性色浆的海关商品HS编码是32041700。

通常，水性色浆是以水为主要溶剂，但一般在配方中会添加5%左右的乙二醇等助溶剂，在安全性要求更高的的纺织类水性印花色浆的配方中可添加更安全的丙二醇等助溶剂，无论乙二醇还是丙二醇，都是防冻液的重要成份，所以水性色浆的抗冻性是远远好于普通的水溶液！

在寒冷的冬季，使用水性色浆，还要注意的几个方面：

1、避免将水性色浆户外存放！在零下几十度的环境温度下，即便有乙二醇或丙二醇等助溶剂的保护，依然会出现水性色浆的冰点，造成水性色浆凝结，无法使用！

2、如果发现水性色浆冰点凝结，应尽快转移到室内存放，等待自然升温慢慢溶化，不可用高温加热，造成助剂和颜料颗粒包覆的破裂，及颜料颗粒集聚溶胀！

3、水性色浆一般为铁桶包装或塑桶包装，若购买劣质低价水性色浆，可能遇到塑料桶受冻开裂，或者铁桶的马口铁含锌量低容易生锈引起底部脱落等问题！

4、冬季生产中使用水性色浆，也需要预防气候寒冷导致涂料本身配方中粘合剂、其他凝固点高的添加剂中，由于涂料配方变得增稠，导致水性色浆无法均匀分散在涂料粘合剂中。这个是需要特别注意！

Why titanium dioxide price continues to rise in China?

Near the end of 2016, titanium dioxide price is surging in China, bringing heavy operating pressure to the downstream coating industry. Just like us as a professional water based pigment paste manufacturer, what we can do is just increasing the price of white pigment paste to resist cost pressure.

Google searches "titanium dioxide price",  you can see the rising information mostly.

Why does titanium dioxide price rise so rapid?  Maybe we can analyze the reasons for it like this:  

The main raw materials of titanium dioxide:  titanium (high titanium slag) and sulfuric acid.  Other auxiliary materials: water, electricity, steam, coal and so on.

According to data monitoring, the domestic market price of sulfuric acid within a narrow range of the main shock in November 2016, the price fell 14.81% compared with the same period last year, sulfuric acid market is weak. So we can know that effect of titanium ore (high titanium slag) cost is the main reason of rising of titanium dioxide price.

In early December, securities analysts have a topics: Henan Billions Chemicals Co Ltd. which is a listed companyChina's titanium dioxide industry: Titanium concentrate ore price is rising and discontinued because of environmental rectification, is expected to continue to boost titanium dioxide prices. An announcement from Henan Billions Chemicals Co Ltd.on December 6, the prices of all models titanium dioxide (including sulfuric acid kind titanium dioxide, chlorinated kind titanium dioxide) would be increased by CNY1,000/ton based on the original prices to domestic customers based on the original prices, and increased by USD150.0/ton to international customers.

Analysts believe that improvement of industry supply and demand pattern, environmental protection pressures and the export business growth, is the main reason for the price rising of titanium dioxide before. November so far, the price of titanium concentrate ore rose again by more than 38%, and the implementation of new transport regulations to bring the increase in freight costs, having led directly to  price rising of domestic titanium dioxide many times.

Discontinued and remediation of Panzhihua vanadium-titanium High-Tech.Area enterprises is also continuing to promote titanium dioxide prices.

Purchasing Manager of Shanghai Caison believes that many of the above reasons causes the domestic titanium dioxide supply tensions. So water based white pigment paste price increasing is a last resort.

钛白粉价格上涨原因分析︱上海彩生白色浆价格即将调整

2016.12.14

上海彩生采购部供稿

临近2016年末，钛白粉价格风起云涌，给下游涂料行业带来不少经营压力！如上海彩生这样的专业的水性色浆生产厂家，只能无赖上调水性色浆白色浆的价格来抵御成本压力！

百度一下“钛白粉价格”，是一片上涨信息！

钛白粉价格为何快速上涨？今天上海彩生采购部为您分析钛白粉上涨的原因：

钛白粉的主要原材料：钛矿（高钛渣）和硫酸。其他辅助材料：水、电、汽、煤等。

据数据监测，2016年11月份，国内硫酸市场价格整体窄幅震荡为主，11月国内硫酸市场成交均价在322.50元/吨，较去年同期价格相比下跌14.81%，硫酸出厂价格南涨北跌；本月国内硫酸厂家硫酸装置整体开工率维持在6成左右，硫酸市场价格偏弱整理。

钛白粉的价格上涨，主要是原料钛矿（高钛渣）价格影响！

从2011年起，中国就成为了世界第一大钛白粉生产国和消费国！

12月初，证券分析师就有专题：中国钛白粉行业上市公司河南佰利联：

钛精矿涨价及环保停产影响 有望继续助推钛白粉价格上涨

河南佰利联12 月6 日晚间发布公告，各型号钛白粉（包括硫酸法钛白粉、氯化法钛白粉）销售价格在原价基础上对国内各类客户上调1000 元人民币/吨，对国际各类客户上调150 美元/吨。

钛精矿价格上涨显著，助推钛白粉涨价趋势。截止12 月6 日，国内46 品位钛精矿不含税价格为1,150 元-1,200 元/吨，较年初涨幅已达约130%。今年以来，国内钛白粉行业已经历了10 多次轮番涨价，涨幅高达40%以上，而国外钛白巨头亦进行了2-3 次的调涨。

河南佰利联的分析师认为行业供需格局的改善、环保措施的趋严和出口业务的增长，是之前钛白粉涨价的主要原因。而进入11 月后至今，钛精矿价格再次涨幅超过38%，原材料端的大幅涨价，以及运输新规实施带来的运费增加，都直接导致了最近国内钛白粉企业的轮番涨价潮。

攀枝花钒钛高新技术区企业停产整治，也是继续推动钛白粉价格上涨。近日，攀枝花钒钛高新技术产业开发区众企业向金沙江偷排工业废水、造成环境污染，目前已停产整治企业28 家，立案30 件。钒钛高新区内及周边金沙金地区钛白粉合计产能约80 万吨，占全国总产能的约23%。此次环保调查导致园区内钛白粉企业全部关停，钛精矿企业亦受影响.

上海彩生采购部经理人认为以上诸多原因是引起国内钛白粉及钛精矿的供应紧张局势。

上海彩生色浆讲堂| 植物染料染色安全吗？

关于植物染料染色，在绝大部分人的思维里面，会觉得很安全！

百度百科，也是以下描述：

植物染色是指利用大自然中自然生长的各种含有色素的植物提取色素来对被染物进行染色的一种方法。是指使用天然染料染色，同时在染色过程中不使用或极少使用化学助剂，而使用从大自然中取得的天然染料，对产品进行染色的一种工艺。也称“植物染色”、“草木染色”。

但我们需要深思一下，就会有一个问题：这么好的植物染料染色，为何没有工业化和产业化的规模发展呢？反而水性色浆是时代发展到今天，成为工业涂料着色的重要着色材料，上海彩生每年生产各类水性色浆就要1000吨以上！中国各类水性色浆企业生产各种水性色浆总量超过万吨！

今天上海彩生技术部通过阐述3个植物染料染色存在的问题，提醒大家重新思考植物染料染色的安全性！

1、物质的颜色是怎么形成？

当我们了解物质产生颜色的原理，物质形成有颜色物质可分为无机物质和有机物质，都是由于物质微观的特性才能呈现出人眼可见的颜色！以下一篇蓝颜色是怎样形成，就是初略介绍蓝色物质结构，形成共轭体，电子能量的产生，伴随颜色产生！水性色浆的故事系列︱蓝颜色是怎样形成的？

无论是人工合成的有颜色物质，还是自然界存在的天然有色物质，都是这样的共轭结构存在，所以血液是红色，蝴蝶有着斑斓的色彩！

只要颜色出现，这样的物质结构决定颜色的构成！植物颜色出现也是同样的原理！

物质结构受环境条件影响会发生不稳定性，分解、结构变异，就会产生微量的其他成分物质！

所有针对化学物质的安全标准，其实就是规定微量不安全物质的含量必须是受到限量控制！REACH、ROHS、OEKO-TEX，GB18401，所有安全标准都是控制微量不安全物质的限量！

植物染料若没有安全的检测，同样不能确保植物染色的安全性！

上海彩生的水性色浆全部符合REACH的限量要求，上海彩生专用于纺织品的涂料印花色浆，安全标准全部符合成人内衣标准，这些都是经过严格的供应商管理和设备工艺的控制，以及无数次安全检测后被认可的！

2、植物染色，工艺非常复杂，按现今工艺说法，就是浪费人工成本，而且污染严重！

中国古代科学著作《天工开物》记载的植物染色法，共记录了二十六种颜色染色，其中大红色染剂的原料只有红花饼，染前要先用乌梅水煎煮红花饼，再用碱水漂清几次，可用稻草灰水代替碱水。多澄清好几次之后，颜色才会变得鲜艳。这样的碱水漂洗就会产生颜色脱落和废水产生！

而现今上海彩生生产的超浓缩水性色浆，用户只要在水性粘合剂中加入非常少的添加量，最高不能超过10%，浅色可在十万分之一的添加比例，就可以方便着色,在纺织品、日用品、建筑、工业烤漆等广泛领域使用！

3、植物染色的颜色着色力低，而且染色牢度差！

在著作《天工开物》中，对植物染色牢度也有描述：红花最怕遇到沉香和麝香，如果把红色的衣服与这些熏衣的香料放在一起收藏，一两个月内就会褪色。用红花浸染过的丝绸，如果想让红色褪掉，只需把丝绸浸湿，上面滴几十滴碱水或稻草灰水，就能把红色完全褪去。

而现今工业化的水性色浆有着优良的着色牢度，上海彩生生产是300种以上水性色浆每一和颜色品种都对应摩擦牢度、日晒牢度等相应的颜色性能，植物染色很难达到的优异性能！

News| Shanghai Caison cares staff health and organizes medical examination

December 10, 2016, Shanghai Caison had organized all employees to take part the annual health examination as always before. Also some retired employees in Shanghai had been invited to participate.
Staff physical examination is once a year,  reflecting the care to company staff from Shanghai Caison. Whether employees or retired employees, are very grateful to the welfare of Shanghai Caison. They would enjoy the star medical services.

December 10 is the first day for physical examination,  the new and old employees had gone together in Ikang physical examination center. They had talked to each other, laughing from time to time.  The same day, Gaoyou Caison staff had started their medical examination in Gaoyou Hospital.Everyone had to cheked his own health status after a busy working year in 2016.

Shanghai Caison people is attentively producing water-based pigment paste products. We are constantly pursuing environmental protection and innovative development concept in industrial coatings coloring area. At the same time, we are caring for every employee. High quality water based pigment paste is finely produced out by every employee.

"People oriented, care for every employee, for better product and better life",  Shanghai Caison will continue to produce better water based pigment paste by the spirit of professional craftsmen, providing more than 300 types of pre-dispersed fine water-based pigment paste for textile products, latex products, soap daily products, architectural coatings,  metal baking paint, wood paints and other industrial coloring areas.

Shanghai Caison has continued to cooperate with Alibaba B2B Platform

The day before yesterday, Mr. Liu who is the West Shanghai business manager of Alibaba International B2B platform had visited Shanghai Caison head office, and finished the continuous cooperation agreement of Shanghai Caison and Alibaba B2B platform.

Tony Peng who is the foreign business manager of Shanghai Caison had discussed the business development and B2B background data with Mr.Liu. At present, the monthly exposure of Shanghai Caison B2B shop in Alibaba platform is more than 100,000 times, the number of pigment paste inquiries is stable.

Shanghai Caison had cooperate with Alibaba International B2B platform since the end of 2014. Shanghai Caison began to the roade of international trade from a domestic market-oriented traditional manufacturing enterprise. Alibaba B2B platform was the major foreign trade platform.  Through continuous learning and optimization, Shanghai Caison built its B2B platform in Alibaba.com: http://www.caisoncolor.en.alibaba.com.

Now, Shanghai Caison shows his corporate culture and hundreds of water based pigment paste products in English and many other languages in Alibaba.com. 

Shanghai Caison is going to explore and provide quality water based pigment paste to all customers from global market.

Pigment dispersion and pigment paste

Pigment dispersion is one kind of pigment preparations, which is made  with organic pigments or inorganic pigments and some suitable surfactants.  After certain period of time of finely grinding and highly dispersing in different solvent systems, they are made into pigment dispersions. If the solvent is water, it is water-based pigment dispersion. If the solvent is oil, it is oil-based pigment dispersion. Our products are water based pigment dispersion with high pigment content and fineness, it is also resin free system.

Currently, we have five series water-based pigment dispersion products, they are:

 CTH series eco-friendly textile printing pigment dispersion;

 D series eco-friendly textile dyeing pigment dispersion;

 CD series eco-friendly textile cationic dyeing pigment dispersion;

 8 series multifunctional no-resin pigment dispersion;

 CP series latex tinting pigment dispersion;

They are more than 300colors with high color strength, the particle size of pigment dispersion has three grades: 10um,5um and 1um. Most of our pigment dispersion is less than 5um, we also can provide 1um grade level pigment dispersion if design and special application needed. 

In fact, pigment dispersion is regularly called pigment paste in Chinese or Asia markets.Because the appearance form of pigment dispersion looks like liquid paste, we are used to call it pigment paste. So you also can name our products water based pigment paste. It is the same pigment preparation product. 

And I still need to complement an important information for our pigment dispersion or pigment paste. It is only pigment preparation, no resin or binder in side. So it can not be used for printing,dyeing and coating directly. They just provide the desired colors, clients should match the appropriate connection materials (binders) or additives to prepare the finished pigment colorant.

By the way, please feel free to contact us if any question about our pigment dispersion or pigment paste. We need your support.

上海彩生通知︱水性白色浆即将上调价格

自2014年6月起钛白粉价格回落，上海彩生对水性白色浆系列价格相应调整，也给予客户让利活动至今，上海彩生的水性白色浆深受广大客户厚爱。

但2016年第四季度起，水性白色浆的主要原料钛白粉价格持续大幅上涨，并有继续走高态势，目前钛白粉供货紧张，上海彩生通知所有水性色浆的客户，水性白色浆即将涨价，上海彩生友情提醒各位客户提前做好产品备货准备。

伴随国内新一轮钢铁、运输等价格上涨，今天，上海彩生又收到水性色浆的包装桶供应商因铁制品价格上涨导致供应价格上调，作为涂料行业中的水性色浆专业制造商，上海彩生也深感成本快速上涨的压力，在努力控制各类成本支出同时，尽可能延缓给下游企业的调价带来的压力，并希望整个行业能稳健发展！

上海彩生始终坚持水性色浆的品质稳定，给大家一如既往的信赖！做最好最稳定的水性色浆！

感谢上海彩生水性色浆用户的理解与支持！

The Chairman of Shanghai Caison talked about CHINACOAT 2016 in Guangzhou

Dec 2,2016 was the last day of CHINACOAT 2016 Guangzhou station,  a lot of people still had gone to visit the exhibition. The coatings industry equipment exhibition area was the focus that Shanghai Caison Chairman must had to pay the attention.

From the situation of coatings inductrial exhibitors and industrial equipments displayed, Shanghai Caison Chairman thought that the current development of Chinese coatings industry had the following three  characteristics:

 1. Increasing of mass / integration / intensive production equipments,  which means that the future will gradually focus on the coating industry centralization;

 2. No much automated robot displayed which to enhance industrial automation efficiency;

 3.High degree of similarity, lack of breakthrough-type technology, and innovation is not high.

When talked with raw materials suppliers of coatings industry, Shanghai Caison Chairman had given a positive evaluation on the future developing of coatings industy. She thought it would been a very large space for improving on eco-friendly, energy saving and high-technology.

Each industry has their own development trend, coatings industry is currently a potential improving period. Shanghai Caison will enhance cross-professional cooperation in the future, because the future coatings industry must be strengths complement each other and powerful combination in different professional and fields. Only such cooperation, can bring the new innovative technology in coating industry.

Shanghai Caison has passed ISO9001 external review