Technical Services

Commercial Pigment Testing Laboratory
After winning the trust of Indian Pigment Industry as a Quality Controllers, Darteno started a Commercial Pigment Testing Laboratory which can work as

• Commercial Laboratory Testing Facility
• A Neutral Laboratory between Buyer & Seller

Sourcing Certification Laboratory
This division does Pigment Quality Control Testing in applications like Different types of Inks, Different types of Paints, Plastic Master Batch, Textile etc as listed below :

• Muller Test
• Offset Ink Test on Triple Roll Mill
• Offset Ink Test on Mars Mill
• Vinyl Ink
• NC Ink
• Polyamide Ink
• Metal Resinate
• Polyurethane Ink
• Ketonic Ink
• Water Based Ink
• Solvent Soluble Dye Test (Strength & Opacity)
• Alkyd Paint
• Acrylic Paint
• Automotive Paint
• Stoving Paint Test
• Textile Print
• Natural Rubber Test on Twin Roll Mill
• Special Eva Rubber Test on Twin Roll Mill
• Plastic Test (PVC,PP,LDPE,HDPE,PS,PC) on Twin Roll Mill
• Heat Stability Test in Plastic
• Dry Color Testing
• Viscosity Test
• Flow Test

The Division is also associated with some reputed institutions to conduct some special tests like :

• FTIR
• X-Ray Diffraction
• Particle Size Analyzer
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• & Many More analytical tests

Technical Consultancy for Pigment Industry
After getting a good grip over testing and technical know-how of Pigments & after getting in touch of good technical researchers, Darteno started its own consultation to the pigment manufacturers for their product development, troubleshooting & cost reduction. Darteno’s Technical team is constantly active in developing pigments for different specific applications especially in phthalocyanine pigments & carbazole violet.

Pigment Trading / Sourcing Agent
Darteno has looked the Pigment Industry from all different aspects & perspectives. At the same time Darteno is acquainted with the Indian Pigment Industry. On the way to achieve success in all different activities, Darteno has spawned a thorough database which is very essential from a sourcing point of view. To source good quantity pigment at a reasonable prize, several issues like which pigment manufacturer wants to achieve which quality, who makes that quality, how much a manufacturer is consistent with his product, who is selling at what price and what is their costing are necessary to be addressed! All this is like a biggest strength for Darteno as a sourcing agent as it is equipped with such database.

Darteno can work as a

• Merchant / Trader
• Transparent Sourcing Agent
• Commission Agent

Darteno is successfully active as a sourcing agent since last 4 years. To name a few Pigments in which Darteno is very active are :

• Pigment Blue 15:0
• Pigment Blue 15:1
• Pigment Blue 15:3
• Pigment Blue 15:4
• Pigment Blue 60
• Pigment Green 7
• Pigment Green 36
• Pigment Violet 19
• Pigment Violet 23
• Pigment Violet 27
• Scarlet Chrome
• Middle Chrome
• Lemon Chrome
• Pigment Red 48:2
• Pigment Red 48:3
• Pigment Red 57:1
• Pigment Red 53:1
• Pigment Red 166
• Pigment Red 112
• Pigment Yellow 13
• Pigment Yellow 83
• Pigment Yellow 74
• Pigment Yellow 138
• & Many more

We have complete lab facility to check pigment performance in different applications like :

• Offset Ink
• Solvent Based Liquid Ink (NC, Polyamide, Vinyl, PU)
• Water Based Flaxo Ink
• Decorative & Industrial Paint
• Plastic Master Batch
• Textile
• Dry Dispersion
• Solvent Soluble Metal Complex Dyes (Nevipon range)
• Plastic Solvent Dyes (Neviplast range)