Prices rising of finished pigment products from BASF and Chemours

According to the multi-channel accessed information by procurement department of Shanghai Caison Color, BASF company announced that their pigment finished products would be increase prices by 15% since June 1st,  the price decision takes effect immediately or according to the contract.

So now such as coatings, plastic, printing, pigment paste and similar chemical industries will face the situation of costs rising. And the enterprises that using phthalocyanine pigments and inorganic pigments to produce and process  will have a significant impact. This price increasing will make the cost of pigment paste production more higher than before.

The reasons of rising price by BASF are that material costs are rapid rising,such as copper, TiO2 or Cobalt materials, while environmental safety and health costs are  further rising. The closure of some of Chinese factories is also pushing the price rising of pigments.

Cost rising of pigments products from global chemical giant must lead to simultaneously prices adjustment of Chinese pigment factories. As the high concentrated pigment paste manufacturer, we will face more motivated industry competition. 

This month, Chemours (former DuPont) issued  a letter saying that he had adjusted the price of titanium dioxide in Greater China since July 1, 2010 or under the contract or legal permission.  All specifications Ti-pare titanium dioxide prices would increase by $200.0/T,  the prices of R-960, TS-6200, TS-6300, R-105, R-108 would increase by $300.0/T.  Price rising of Titanium dioxide would cause a bigger pressure to white pigment paste cost.

Caison Color pigment paste will face the severe challenges in the near several months, just as all clients.

Cationic pigment color paste is recognized by the customer | for textile pigment dyeing

Mrs. Chen from Shanghai Caison Technology Dept. loves working and studying. These days, she is always smiling，because cationic pigment paste which is managed and developed by her is successful for textile pigment dyeing case in one textile factory.

Suede fabric, having a unique style after cationic pigment paste dyeing, it has better hand feeling and soft then non-ionic pigment paste dyeing. The effect of imitation natural suede is much better than dyestuffs dyeing. Textile pigment dyeing is different from dyes dyeing, is more eco-friendly dyeing method than dyes, and it is energy saving and waste water reducing.

But there are some reasons hinder the developing of traditional textile pigment dyeing:

1.The colors and styles of textile are protean, people need a variety of styles, but pigment paste dyeing is hard to achieve the dark dyeing, and can't reach the same effect as dyes dyeing.

2.Pigment color paste is generally non-ionic system, and some is anionic surfactant system, this requires the textile should be cationic grafting before dyeing, and makes cleaning after grafting. This kind of dyeing process brings much more waste water. And sometimes failure grafting causes the waste materials.

3.Textile which is dyed by pigment color paste should need adhesive to fix color, so the hand feeling of textile is general hard.

Shanghai Caison Color is a professional manufacturer of water based pigment paste.Since its establishment in 2005, we have being researched the textile pigment paste dyeing process. China's environmental policy and labor costs have an important impact on the development of textile printing and dyeing industry, they require small and medium-sized printing and dyeing enterprises to carry out process innovation and reform, and simplify the printing and dyeing process, to achieve energy saving and water saving, also continue to enhance the textile dyeing effect and create a unique textile products!

Cationic water based pigment paste for textile printing and dyeing,  is the product of creative thinking from Shanghai Caison Color Technology team. It started from 2012, and after seven years working, we have received preliminary results. But the difficulties are still exist.

Shanghai Caison Technology team thinks that textile cationic pigment paste dyeing has a very unique dyeing style, and also a water saving and energy saving method for textile dyeing. But because of characteristics of cationic pigment paste particles,  there are still much micro-particles dyeing conditions need to explore, and improve the dyeing effect. However, Shanghai Caison Color technology team believes that cationic pigment color paste for textile dyeing will be eventually accepted and popular in future !

What's the key point of cationic pigment paste dyeing |Research results sharing from Shanghai Caison Color

Insiders know that cationic pigment paste is more reasonable in textile dyeing than non-ionic pigment color paste, it is also simpler in fact. But cationic pigment paste dyeing is hard to achieve a satisfactory dyeing effect. This is why it has not been accepted by the market until now.

During the dyeing process of cationic pigment paste dyeing, the non-water-soluble pigment particles and dyed fibers have a complex physical and chemical effects and reaction, resulting in the inconsistent dyeing effect in the same bathtub with different lots. After repeated tests in Shanghai Caison Color Lab, the key points of cationic pigment paste dyeing is summarized as follows:

1. No cationic grafting treatment before dyeing with cationic pigment paste;

2. When using cationic pigment paste for textile dyeing, be sure to make the fabric do a lasting two-way turning in dyeing tank. It just means that stirring in one direction for a few minutes and then turn it back for a few minutes. Make sure that the pigment particles are fully accessible to the textile fibers!

3. The fineness of cationic pigment paste is best in 1μ or less, and particles are uniform;

4. The dyeing liquid PH condition is different for different textile fibers. The dyeing factories should be strictly control the PH value of dyeing liquid. It is very important.  Shanghai Caison Color Technology team would give full support before lots dyeing.

5. Heating process should be done in the dyeing process. The rising of dyeing temperature is conducive to speed up the microscopic movement of molecular particles! When the temperature reaches 70 Degrees Celsius,  higher is no needed.

To understand the application and collocation of red color in 3mins

Red color,  looks like fire, the sun, the blood, the warm. In China, red is a symbol of festivity! Red color has a strong visual impact! The proper using of red pigment color paste, will give the user a powerful color energy.

Shanghai Caison color research team find that red color has a clear visual warning effect, so red color paste is the most suitable used for these industries LOGO design and product advertising of financial, food, transportation, medical, education.

For example, the most significant using in financial of Red logo is Industrial and Commercial Bank of China;  red logo in food industry is undoubtedly Coca-Cola! 

Shanghai Caison Color Research Team gives several recommendations of red color applicationa and matching with other colors:

1. Red color and yellow color,  it is a very brilliant combination of color, has very warm and magnificent momentum!
2. Red color and blue color, just likes the sun rises in the sea! The perfect combination of coldness and enthusiasm! It is also the color of new caison color logo;

3. Red color and white color,  the area of white used should be more than red color used. So that the red is luxurious and elegant with the help of white color, to create a festive and happy atmosphere;

4. Red color and black color, this should tightly control the proportion of red color.Black color is dark and mysterious, classic cool, it needs red embellishment. But you should control the red color area or amount when red color used with black color, this will be more prominent visual impact and energy of red.

At the end of these words, we can share the color gamut of the color matching, and suggest that user should not put the contrasting colors in an object, such as red and green. When you know more about colors, you can easily choose Caison color pigment paste for coloring and tinting.

Shanghai Caison team brought smart robots Pudding to participate the 2017 China Coatings Summit

2017 China Coatings Summit had been held at The Longemont Shanghai Hotel from May 24th to 25th. So many of enterprises technical backbone and scientific research personnel had attended the high-standard industrial coatings seminar. Shanghai Caison is also one of the sponsors of 2017 China Coatings Summit, and the enterprise booth No. is 26!

Mr. Guoxi Ma, president of Ringier Industrial Media, delivered an opening speech for this conference! 

Shanghai Caison team was led by Mrs. Zhanglei who was the general manager of Caison sales company. In the morning May 24th,  Mrs.Zhang accepted the interview from Ringier Media reporter. She introduced the new pigment paste products---PVC sheet coloring special pigment paste to the reporter, and made a key promotion to everyone.

During the coatings summit, some senior technical experts and coatings insutrial leaders made the important speech about application of waterborne coatings in industrial field, and trends in emissions regulation of coatings and inks.

As one of the sponsors of 2017 China Coatings Summit, Shanghai Caison brought and trained the smart robots Pudding which was new member of Shanghai Caison. He could make the fun interaction with visitors. He could answer your questions about us.  During the rest time of the technical sessions, so many delegates and exhibitors were interested in chatting with Pudding. Pudding answer that who was the founder of Shanghai Casion, Shanghai weather situation and some other humorous answer to bring us much more happiness!

Any work needs to be happy. The pattern of happiness and work together is the best way for company development. Our works would make the customers feel happy.