Applications

INDUSTRIAL COLORANTS

Products with wide ranging uses that are utilized for plastics, inks, paints and other materials.


ORIENT® colors were developed for coloring plastics, and because of their high quality, such as strong light and heat resistance they are relied upon throughout the world. These products are highly compatible with resin giving beauty and transparency that are unattainable with pigments. NUBIAN® colors, which are for engineering plastics, and OIL colors, which have wide-ranging usages because of their superior coloring properties. "NIGROSINE,", an organic black dye manufactured using dye synthesis technology, can be used for the coloring of resins, inks and paints.

Principal Uses	Product Line
Phenol	Orient Colors
Polyamide	Nubian Colors
Polycarbonate	Oil Colors
Polystyrene	Nigrosine Colors
ABS
Acrylic Resin

VALIFAST® colors are produced utilizing azo-metal complex and dye-salt compound technology. They are top-of-the-line products for SPIRIT colors due to their superior lightfastness, heat resistance and solubility. They are also used in various types of coating materials because of their superior sublimation and bleed resistance.

Principal Uses	Product Line
Film Coating Ink	Valifast Color Series
Gravure Ink

OIL colors, which are oil soluble dyes featuring bright color, are used for coloring paint, gasoline, shoe polish, etc. VALIFAST® colors, which have excellent solubility and impart brilliant color in solvents, are used for wood stain and leather paints applied as the top coating materials.

Principal Uses	Product Line
Various types of paints for wood and leather products Shoe Polish Gasoline	Oil Color Series Valifast Color Series

INFORMATION STORAGE

ORIENT supplies the most suitable materials for information storage in a wide range of areas. These products include Charge Control Agent for electro-photographic toner and organic colorants used for writing ink and inkjet ink as well as high-performance materials for information storage.



OIL colors and VALIFAST colors are oil and spirit soluble dyestuffs. WATER colors are water soluble and are available in a wide range of hues.

Principal Uses	Product Line
Oil Based ink for ballpoint pens	Oil Color Series
Water based ink for ballpoint pens	Valifast Color Series
Oil based marker pens	Water Color Series
Water based marker pens
Gel ink
Ink for fountain pens
Ink for Whiteboards

The BONTRON® series was developed with due attention being paid to the electrical characteristics of dyes. They are used to effectively control the electrification property of toners that are used with electro-photography equipment, such as copying machines and laser beam printers. The products have a significant market share throughout the world and come with a lineup of various products for different usages, such as the N and the P series for a positive charge, and the S, the E and the F series for a negative charge.

Principal Uses	Product Line
Toners for electro-photography equipment	Bontron Series
Powder-form paint

BONJET® Series and Micropigmo® Series are pigment dispersions. The Nigrosine Series, Oil Series, Valifast® Series are suitable for solvent based inkjet. The Water Series is suitable for water based inkjet.

Principal Uses	Product Line
Office automation type inkjet printers	Bonjet Series
Industrial Inkjet printers	Micropigmo Series
	Nigrosine Base Series
	Oil Series
	Valifast Series
	Water Series

eBind® is the newly developed colorant for Laser Transmission Welding (LTW). A laser beam transmits through the transmission layer and changes into heat at the interface of the transmission and absorbent layer. The heat of the beam works to weld the two layers into one part.