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When remodeling your house, you have tons of things to keep in mind. The interiors, the flooring, the final layout and paints besides other things. When it comes to choosing paint for the home, all we commonly tend to consider is the sort of color and texture the paint has. These days there are such innovative patterns available that people get spoilt for choice, choosing abstract designing patterns for planning a masterpiece of a wall for their home.

However, we usually forget that paints are going to stay with us for a very long time and hence, there are other details that need to be considered than simply the colors and textures. Have you ever thought that paints might actually be harmful for you? Sometimes, manufacturers use harsh and cheap chemical reactive diluents in their paints and this might tend to have a very negative impact on the health of people staying in the home!

There are such reactive; polluting...

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Ever wondered where the different sorts of colors that surround us come from? From the beverage bottles to colorful toys and textiles, from various home décor items to simple things like ball point pens, everything is colored by the manufacturers, using a complex and long process.

There are many different sorts of dyes and synthetic colors, that are processed through the process of acquiring them from their natural resources, boiling them, curing them, reducing them, drying them and then channelizing them in different forms of ready color which is then supplied to different industries as per the needs and the requirements. It is surely a very complex procedure that goes in the extraction of the natural gums and resins and then processing them into ready to use color.

Different companies have ties with firms providing these colors and solvent dyes in order to get their products colored, and manufactured into beautiful packages later. This means that the coloring industry is one of the major parts of many sectors. From simple things like beverage and tinned food companies to the printing ink that is essential for newspapers and magazines. There is need for the companies to have a close check on...

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Nature is all about colors, we feel the presence and existence of natural beauties by distinguishing them according to their color. From nature’s green world to land, oceans, cosmic bodies and living beings, everything comprises of some colors the way we perceive.

In our everyday life, we use number of things, which are colored and painted as per our requirements or our choice. One chemical that is widely used for coloring such things is solvent dye, which is also used for gold imitation of metal polyester films.

Hydrocarbon fuels, plastics, waxes, organic solvents, lubricants and other hydrocarbon-based non-polar materials are imparted color using these kinds of dyes. The molecules of fuel dyes are non-polar or slightly polar in nature and they do not undergo ionization, they are insoluble in water, forms colloidal solution in solvents and possess poor to good light fastness. The solubility of such dyes in non-polar mediums makes them versatile and perfect to be used in wide range of applications in several different industries on a large scale.

Solvent dyes are majorly used for foil printing, printing inks, ballpoint pens, marking pens, polishes, candles, waxes, leathers, acrylic resins, wood stains, varnishes as well as shellacs. It...

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Centuries ago, the invention of printing technology revolutionized not only the method of communication, but also the way of maintaining records. In the modern times, the tremendous advances in printing and associated technologies enable people to not only customize the print jobs as per their requirements but also add additional features, which would have seemed impossible only a few years back. However, all the developments in printing technology would prove useless, if the right kind of ink is not used. The inks that are used for printing are generally categorized into two types namely solvent dye inks and aqueous dye inks. 

Not many people are aware of the significance of using the right type of ink for diverse printing jobs. They are rarely educated about the important role played by the choice of ink in determining the quality, clarity and durability of the printed material. Since the formulations of both solvent based inks and...

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