Coordinate, do not manufacture
We help chemical distributors, industrial buyers, and formulators write a brief a factory can answer. We do not run mills, flush lines, or grinders, and we do not present another company ISO file as ours.
- 01 Brief
- 02 Outreach
- 03 Compare
DESK
Pigments Sourcing is an independent procurement desk
The service name describes a buyer-side workflow: capture a chemical brief, request factory quotations, and compare delivered scope. It is not a plant name, a brand license, or a warehouse. No founding year, capacity figure, or customer count is published because those facts are not site-owned evidence.
- Brief intake for Color Index, form, quantity, packaging, and US destination.
- Supplier outreach against that frozen brief, not against a catalog family.
- Side-by-side reading of price, freight, samples, and document gaps.
WHAT WE DO AND DO NOT DO
Boundaries that keep pigment quotes comparable
Ask for evidence, do not invent it
Safety data sheet, technical data sheet, CoA format, TSCA or REACH statements, and transport class are requested from the proposed supplier for the named pigment. Missing answers stay marked open.
Compare total scope, do not publish discounts
There is no site-owned price book and no savings percentage. Optional budget is a planning input. High-end, mid-range, budget, or undecided is a preference, not a rating of factories we have audited. If a mill returns an Incoterm that omits destination charges, that exclusion stays visible rather than being filled with a market average.
Typical intake notes include CAS number where known, Color Index, particle size, moisture, oil absorption if the buyer measures it, viscosity for a dispersion, solids content, and package net content. Those fields are copied into the RFQ so two factories answer the same question. They are not published here as a catalog of products we warehouse.
When a buyer cannot name a CAS number, the brief should still name Color Index, form, and the resin system. Inventing a neighboring organic red or a generic titanium white to complete a form is worse than leaving identity open, because later SDS, flash point, and UN number checks will not match the material that arrives.
WHO USUALLY WRITES
Roles that typically own the pigment brief
Procurement
Owns quantity, Incoterm, destination, and whether the lot is sample, trial, or firm. Keeps alternative shades on a separate line.
Formulation / process
Owns Color Index, particle profile, resin system, solids, and whether powder or dispersion is the only acceptable form.
EHS / regulatory
Owns SDS review, storage, labeling, and any TSCA, REACH, or transport questions. This website does not replace that review.
Talk through a pigment requirement with the desk
Use the form to send specification, quantity, packaging, destination, and timing. We will treat the note as an RFQ intake, not as an approval of a named factory.