High Performarrcll&nd Special Effect Pigments

摘要

CW: How did the high performance pigments market fare in 2020 and what were the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic? DCL: Our customers saw a single-digit decline in their consumption of all pigments this year as the global economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic reduced demand for many colored items but an increase in their demand for high performance pigments. This was in part driven by the long term trend of these products to replace classical grades and in part due to our successful commissioning of new high performance pigment capacity at our Canadian manufacturing unit increasing our capacity of these grades. DCL is now the largest manufacturer of benzimidazolone pigments for coatings in the North America, including Yellow 151, 154 and Orange 36. We are also increased our capacity of high performance pigments used in the plastic industry, including Yellow 62, 168, 180, 183, 191 and Orange 64. All of these products can be imported to our USA customers without duties.