Advantages
Company History
Our group has over 50 years of experience in the manufacturing of colorants and their raw materials. This extensive experience coupled with the fact that we have one of the foremost teams in the industry is a very important reason to do work with us. During our long history, we innovated from standard dyes & pigments to salt free dyes and on to producing dyes for inkjet ink to then the inkjet ink itself. This has resulted in our company undergoing tremendous innovation as we manufacture more and more technically advanced products. This innovation continues and is an ongoing commitment of ours to our customers. We are constantly exposed to the challenges of an evolving market and we are able to innovate to meet these challenges without ever giving up the benchmarks for quality and consistency.
Inkjet History
Inkjet inks require pigments of the highest quality and highest possible consistency to ensure that the inks work flawlessly. We started manufacturing Inkjet inks (Digital Inks) both water based and solvent based in the year 2000. This capability of understanding the most demanding application of inks and the pigment purity requirements for such an application has given us a great insight into how pigment should be manufactured. Aspects such as particle size, crystal structure, particle growth, primary particle distribution, salt content, moisture content, free metal content, elemental analysis, form of the pigment, gloss, opacity, transparency, shade, tone, strength, purity, drying techniques, grinding techniques etc are all studied, analysed,tried and tested and this gives the company its strength to not only offer products of highest quality for the ink industry but also provides a platform to offer products for equally demanding applications such as plastics, paints and rubber.
In-House Application Labs
A.T.Pigments has a fully customised application testing labs for all the pigment applications. We have world class printing ink testing capabilities and all the required testing equipment to work for paints and plastic industry such as muellers, twin roll mills, hydraulic press, lab grinding equipment, ink drop analysers, fastness testing equipments, UV curing systems for UV ink testing, draw down tables, various gauges, moisture balances etc.
In-house Analytical Capabilities
Our analytical labs are probably the best in the industry with equipments such as HPLC, LC MS, GC, contact angle, particle size distribution for both liquids and powder, Rheometers, viscometers, spectrophotometers for liquids and drawdowns, long term stability testing equipments, FTIR-ATR, IC for cations and anions , MPAES ( ICP), surface tensiometers etc.
Environment First Policy
We are concerned for the environment. It is for this reason that we have a zero discharge policy in effluents. All the effluents generated in our plant are treated and more than 95% of the waste water generated is re-purified and re-used. For this state of the art effluent treatment facility has been set up by us which includes not just primary and secondary treatment but also tertiary treatment. Even the Fuel used in our steam generation is bio-degradable and the residue coming out from the boilers is also re-cyclable.
