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December 4, 2007 - The English artist Leigh Hunt already said, „Colours are the smiles of nature“. They not alone accomplish our lives added colourful, with over a third of all advice we apperceive accepting somehow accompanying to colours role in the characteristics of our surroundings. With this, it’s no admiration that added and added companies are axis their absorption to pigments and application this achievability to enhance their products, thereby accretion the aggregate of absorption the articles receive. Colour pigments are a growing market, with pearlescent and aftereffect pigments acceptable added popular. However, they accept abundant added applications like antidotes adjoin metal poisoning, which uses the Iron Blue pigment. Other examples are Micaceous adamant ore and phosphate pigments, which are acclimated in blight protection, and alluring pigments acclimated in accumulator media.

New Market Study on Pigments
Ceresana Research has just completed its absolute appraisal of the all-around pigments market, which is the a lot of all-encompassing of its kind, allegory the newest facts and trends, presented on over 1,000 pages. The abstraction offers a appearance of the accepted market, arch up to the year 2016, and contains added than 250 architect profiles aural the pigments branch. Additional to these accessible resources, is an overview of legislative, ecology and bloom aspects, which affect this important market. This address is now accessible in German or English, alone from Ceresana Research.

Growing bazaar
The common bazaar for inorganic, amoebic and appropriate pigments had a absolute aggregate of about 7.4 actor bags in 2006. At advance ante of 2.9% p.a., this aggregate will acceleration to 9.8 actor bags by 2016. Asia has the accomplished amount on a abundance base followed by Europe and North America. In 2006, a about-face of US$ 17.6 billion (€ 13 billion) was accomplished mostly in Europe, followed by North America and Asia. This is accepted to ability US$ 27.8 billion (€ 20,4 billion) by 2016, agnate to its anniversary advance amount of 5%. Although amoebic pigments anniversary for alone 5% of all pigments based on quantity, they awning 28% if based on their value.

Shift to Asia
Demand and assembly of pigments are always alive from the USA, Western Europe and Japan to the arising markets of Asia, abnormally China and India. This is mainly because of lower accomplishment and allowing ecology regulations. Within arising countries themselves, calm appeal for chump articles absolute pigments is growing. While a few ample suppliers of pigments boss the almost saturated markets of automated countries, Asian markets abide fragmented. New Asian suppliers aggregate an added allowance burden on accustomed manufacturers.

Growth is apprenticed by bazaar areas
Almost all automated sectors charge pigments, with press ink, paints, lacquers, and plastics all accepting advance markets for pigments. More and added manufacturers use new colours and beheld accoutrement for their packaging and bartering material. In addition, sectors such as cosmetics, paper, textile, architecture material, ceramics, and bottle accomplish abundant demands on pigments to add added accuracy to their products. The bolt industry added substitutes pigments for dyes.

Organic pigments acting asleep pigments
Surpassing advance in amoebic pigments will abide as these pigments action a advanced colour spectrum and added supplant pigments on a abundant metal basis. Today abounding ecology regulations bind the use of lead, chromium, and cadmium.

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