Products in Printing & Packaging: Azo Compounds

DCL 1812 Naphthol Red, PR.112 is a deep shade red naphthol with very good lightfastness even in medium shades. 1812 is somewhat sensitive to blooming at very low concentrations. It also exhibits good overall resistance properties, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of inks and coating applications.

DCL 032-185 Toluidine Red, PR.3 (Yellowest) is an opaque, yellow shade of toluidine red, offering very good lightfastness in masstone shades. It is the yellowest shade toluidine red by DCL. It is mainly used in water flexo inks, decorative and industrial coatings.

DCL 2312 Diarylide Yellow, PY.12 is a medium-shade diarylide yellow offering excellent tinting strength and value. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability, making it a reliable and versatile choice for a range of coatings, inks, and rubber applications.

DCL 2194 Benzimidazolone Yellow, PY.194 is a bright, green-shaded yellow with very good light and weather fastness, especially in deep shades. This product has relatively high opacity, good flow properties, good overall resistance properties, and good bleed characteristics. It is mainly used in plastics, high-end coatings, and inks.

DCL 1184 Naphthol Red, PR.184 is a blue-shaded, semi-transparent naphthol red with good overall fastness properties. 1184 is an alternative to Pigment Red 57:1 types where an improvement in fastness properties is needed. It is a rubine process printing shade.

DCL 1370 Naphthol Red, PR.170 is a very bright, yellow-shaded naphthol red with very good lightfastness, opacity, flow properties, and chemical resistance. The shade of 1370 is yellower and more opaque compared to that of 1970A. It is a reliable and versatile choice for various plastic, ink and coating applications.

DCL 2413 Diarylide Yellow, PY.13 is an AAMX medium-shade diarylide yellow offering good opacity and tinting strength compared to other diarylide pigments. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of inks, plastics, and coating applications.

DCL 1274-D Hansa Yellow, PY.74 is a medium shade hansa yellow with good lightfastness and opacity, suitable for decorative and industrial coatings, water flexo, solvent flexo, and UV inks. It features good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability, making it a reliable and versatile choice for a range of applications.

DCL Orange GX Pyrazolone Orange, PO.13, is an orange pigment that provides a bright red shade of orange, commonly used in offset and aqueous inks. Additionally, DCL Orange GX is versatile enough to be used in a wide range of paint and plastic applications.

DCL 2870 Naphthol Red, PR.170 is a blue-shaded red pigment for use where good overall fastness properties are required. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, including lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of paint, plastic, and ink applications.

DCL 1634 Pyrazolone Orange, PO.34, is a bright, strong, redder-shaded transparent type Azo Orange with fair lightfastness. With good overall resistance properties, this product is widely used in various applications, such as plastics like PVC and PC, industrial and powder coatings, and water-flexo and solvent-flexo inks, among others.

DCL 1243 Diarylide Yellow, PY.83 is a red-shade diarylide yellow pigment specially formulated for use in nitrocellulose, polyamide, and polyurethane solvent-based inks. This product offers excellent transparency, high gloss, and strong tinting strength, making it ideal for applications in solvent-based inks.

DCL 1692 Calcium Lithol Red, PR.49:2 is a semi-opaque, blue-shaded red that exhibits excellent brightness along with good tinting strength. This versatile product has good overall resistance properties and is widely used in various applications, especially industrial coatings and UV inks.

DCL 2874 Hansa Yellow, PY.74 is a high-strength, green-shaded Hansa Yellow. This pigment is specifically recommended to be used in water flexo and UV inks, decorative and industrial coatings. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability, making it a reliable choice for a range of applications.

DCL 1208 Benzimidazolone Red, PR.208 is a medium-shaded, transparent benzimidazolone pigment with excellent overall properties. It has good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for various plastic, ink and coating applications.

DCL 7470 Naphthol Red, PR.170 is a high-performance yellow-shaded red pigment. It has good opacity, heat stability (15 min at 165°C), lightfastness, and improved dispersibility relative to the standard Pigment Red 170. It can be used in high-end coating applications, particularly for automotive refinishing, architectural and industrial coatings.

DCL 2114 Diarylide Yellow, PY.14 is a semi-opaque AAOT diarylide yellow offering excellent value and having good overall resistance properties. It is specifically recommended to be used in water flexo inks, industrial coatings, and plastics such as PVC, PE, PP, etc.

DCL 2201 Hansa Yellow, PY.1 is a medium-shaded, semi-transparent yellow pigment with good weather fastness in full shades. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of coating and ink applications.

DCL 1816 Dianisidine Orange, PO.16 is a blue-shade Dianisidine Orange pigment designed for non-exterior film, blow molding, injection molding, and wire and cable applications. It offers very good heat stability up to 240°C and has a high tint strength compared to other orange color indices. DCC 1816 is considered to be the most cost-effective lead-free alternative to molybdate orange.

DCL Yellow 83P Diarylide Yellow, PY.83 is a red shade yellow pigment with excellent gloss and transparency in solvent based inks. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of ink applications.

DCL 2151 Benzimidazolone Yellow, PY.151 is a green-shaded yellow pigment with excellent light and weather fastness, especially in deep shades. 2151 has high opacity and good flow properties in all types of coatings. It has good overall resistance properties.

DCL 2283 Opaque Yellow, PY.83 is a medium-shaded diarylide yellow offering good opacity, lightfastness, excellent flow properties, and tinting strength. It is recommended to be used in inkjet and UV inks as well as automotive, aerospace, industrial, and powder coating applications.

DCL 2316 Dianisidine Orange, PO.16 is a bright yellow shade orange with good opacity and tinting strength mainly for interior applications. This pigment is mainly used in the following applications: Plastics such as PVC and PE Powder and industrial coatings. Solvent flexo, water flexo and UV inks Rubber products

DCL 0013-473 Hansa Yellow, PY.73 is a green shade hansa yellow with moderate opacity and easy to disperse in most coatings and printing ink applications. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a highly reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of inks and coating applications.

DCL 1120 Hansa Yellow, PY.74 is a semi-opaque green-shade yellow pigment with high tinctorial strength. It has excellent overall resistance properties and finds major applications in decorative, industrial, and powder coatings, as well as solvent flexo and water flexo inks.

DCL 2583 Diarylide Yellow, PY.83 is a very strong, bright, and transparent red shade of diarylide yellow with good lightfastness and bleed properties. It also exhibits good overall resistance properties, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of inks, plastics, and coating applications.

DCL 1144 Disazo Red, PR.144 is a medium to slightly blue-shade red pigment with high purity, tinting strength, and excellent heat stability. It is primarily used in the coloration of plastics such as PVC, ABS, polystyrene, polyolefins, and polyester spin dyeing, and is also used in some specialty coatings and inks, though it can cause warpage in HDPE.

DCL 1836 Azo Orange, PO.36 is an opaque grade of PO.36 that exhibits a reddish-shaded orange color with excellent light and weather fastness characteristics. 1836 provides high opacity and good flow properties in a variety of plastics, coatings, and inks.

DCL 2197 Azo Yellow, PY.97 is a versatile pigment that offers a vibrant green shade of yellow, along with excellent light and weather fastness, especially in deep shades. This high-opacity pigment also boasts good flow properties and bleed characteristics, making it a great choice for a variety of applications.

DCL 2188 Naphthol Red, PR.188 is a bright, yellow-shaded naphthol red with good flow properties, bleed resistance, lightfastness, and weather fastness. It is recommended for higher-grade exterior industrial paints, exterior trade sales coatings, colorant systems for in-plant tinting or machine colorants, printing inks, mass coloration of paper, paper surface coating, paper pulp coloration, wax crayons, and inks for wallpaper use. It is also recommended for use in plastics.

DCL 1070 Naphthol Red, PR.170 is a very brilliant, opaque, strong, bright yellow shade of naphthol red pigment. It exhibits very good lightfastness, chemical resistance and flow properties. This makes it a highly reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of inks and coating applications.

DCL 2113 Pyrazolone Orange, PO.13 is a bright, clean, transparent pyrazolone orange pigment with excellent tinting strength. 2113 has fair lightfastness in masstone/deep shades and is poor in tints. It is recommended to be used in a wide range of plastic, ink, and coating applications.

DCL CARMINE B Naphthol Red, PR.5 is a bright blue-shaded red pigment used primarily in offset and water based inks. It also finds use in decorative and industrial paints. It also exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability.

DCL 2217 Diarylide Yellow, PY.17 is a strong, transparent green shade of Diarylide Yellow that offers excellent value for use in various printing ink applications, such as water-based, nitrocellulose-based, and polyamide-based inks and metal deco printing, as well as in some plastics applications, including polyolefins, printing on PVC film, and polyurethane foams, and in some air-dry industrial coatings and textile printing.

DCL 1274 Hansa Yellow, PY.74 is a medium-shade Hansa Yellow with good lightfastness and opacity. It has various applications, including decorative and industrial coatings, as well as water flexo, solvent flexo, and UV inks. It features good overall resistance properties, weather fastness, and heat stability.

DCL 06-905 DNA Orange, PO.5 is a bright, semi-opaque orange pigment with good lightfastness. It is used in some applications to replace molybdate oranges. However, due to its poor solvent stability in some solvents, it is not recommended for baking systems. It is recommended for trade-sale paints, air-dry industrial coatings, water, solvent, and UV based printing inks.