Coatings World - March 2008 Part 2 of 2

Responsible for all marketing and sales of Toyo Ink Pigments.

United by one global business and communication system.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Toyo Ink Pigments is one of the top 5 global organic pigment manufacturers. Once the world’s leading supplier of phthalocyanine blue crude, Toyo has now withdrawn from third party crude sales and has refocussed its activities on its core range of finished pigments. Our reputation has been built on our unique and extensive surface treatment chemistries that provide formulation and performance enhancements for our users.

MAJOR PRODUCTS:

Within the brand names of LIONOL, LIONOGEN, LUTETIA, COSMOS, CATULIA and others we support a global core range of pigments that include an extensive variety of Pigment Blue 15’s from PB15 through to PB15: 6, Blue 60’s, Green 36’s, PV19 and PR122 Quinacridones, Pigment Violet 23’s, Azo Reds and Diarylide Yellows from 12 to 83.

GLOBAL CAPABILITIES:

Toyo serves users throughout the world with products manufactured in Fuji, Japan, Oissel, France, Villers St. Paul, France, Tianjin, China and Zhuhai, China. These ISO registered locations focus on product specific manufacturing excellence and through extensive technology transfers also provide cost and capacity safeguards for our core product range. Key contacts in the Marketing and Sales regions are:

China: TOYO INK (SHANGHAI) RHQ CO., LTD.
12D, Cross Region Plaza, 899 Lingling Road
Shanghai, China
Tel +86 21 6487 6767
Fax +86 21 5489 1773

EUROPE: FRANCOLOR PIGMENTS S.A.
Plateforme de Villers St. Paul Rue Albert
Thomas, B.P. 25, 60871 RIEUX CEDEX, France
Tel + 33 3 44 74 46 46
Fax + 33 3 44 74 46 43

MARKETS SERVED:

Toyo serves users of organic pigments for Automotive Coatings, Industrial Finishes, Trade Sales, Architectural, Coil and Powder Coatings as well as the Vinyl industry, Plastic Masterbatch and Color Concentrate Producers for Olefins and High Temperature Plastics and Lithographic, Publication Gravure and Textile Printing Inks and Flexo and Gravure Packaging Inks.

TECHNOLOGIES:

Through two Institues of Technology, one in Japan, one in France, Toyo focusses its R & D activities on derivative and additive chemistry applied to the surface of pigments to ease formulators in-plant experience and to help enhance finished product properties such as rheology, gloss, transparency, opacity and saturation.