Let Keystone help you go GREEN, in any color you like with Keyplast Dyes. Keystone has tested and selected a full range of dyes for use in compostable bio-plastics. Biodegradable plastics are very much in the forefront of today’s technology and Keystone Aniline keeps you on the leading edge of this technology by offering dyes that have been tested for their ability to decompose in a composting environment.

Click Video clips below to view segments of the Keystone paper recently presented at the RETEC Technical Conference held in Dearborn MI, (USA) in September 2008. RETEC is the technical conference of the Color and Appearance division of the Society of Plastics Engineers.

Contact Keystone with any questions comments or requests for more information. Click on Image below to open the Video clips of the RETEC Technical Conference.

Keystone Aniline Corporation is one of the oldest and largest dyestuff and color companies in America. For many years, we have produced and sold KEYTRANS liquid heat transfer dyes. KEYTRANS liquids are very highly  concentrated liquid dispersions that can be easily made into heat transfer inks simply by mixing into your existing ink formulation.

Our KEYTRANS liquid concentrates contain up to 35% – 40% dye content and are stable and easy to use. KEYTRANS liquid concentrates can be made either in a 100% water/ surfactant version or with the addition of acrylic polymer.

Keytrans Liquid Heat transfer dyes are available in all the most popular colors including;

Disperse Yellow 54, Disperse Yellow 3, Disperse Yellow 82 (fluorescent)
Disperse Orange 25, Disperse Brown 26
Disperse Red 60, Disperse Red 4. Disperse Red 11,
Disperse Red 364 (fluorescent pink)
Disperse Violet 1, Disperse Violet 17, Disperse Blue 72
Disperse Blue 14, Disperse Blue 60, Disperse Blue 72, Disperse Blue 359
Disperse Blue 360
And specially formulated black shades

Because much of the heat transfer printing business has now relocated outside the United States we are very keen to show the quality of our KEYTRANS heat transfer printing concentrates to the world market.

For this reason, Keystone Aniline is offering, for a limited time, free trial drums of 25 Kg of our most popular colors for your testing and evaluation. These include any of the following colors;

We are VERY confident you will appreciate the quality and performance of our KEYTRANS liquid dye concentrates. We will be happy to ship you free of charge 25 Kg quantities of the colors listed above, all you pay is the freight to your location which we can arrange for you.

Please contact us www.dyes.com or through telephone at (1) 312 666 2015 to take advantage of our offer

Keystone Aniline Corporation is pleased to announce the release of a new handbook for industrial colors. The Industrial Color Compounding (ICC) Handbook is designed to simplify the color selection process and to ensure the correct dye chemistry is being used for the intended application.

The ICC Handbook is sub-divided by application and includes colors and dyestuffs for HI&I, car wash soaps, dyes for antifreeze, petro based solvents, adhesive colorants, and certified colors. Keystone Aniline Corporation..."Changing the way you think about color"

Keystone Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keystone Aniline Corporation has recently signed a distribution agreement with Ultratech LDA of Braga, Portugal to represent and promote the Keyfast Spirit and Nerosol dye product lines to the Wood Coatings market in Portugal.

Keystone Europe is based in Huddersfield, UK with sales offices, laboratories and distribution. Keystone Europe sells a complete line of dyes, pigments and pigment dispersions in Europe through either direct sales or through an established network of regional distributors.

The Nerosol liquids and Keyfast Spirit powder lines are pre-metalized dyes for either aqueous or solvent based wood coating and woodstain systems. Laboratory and Technical support come from both the Keystone Europe laboratories in the UK and the Keystone Aniline Corporation Inman, South Carolina liquid dye and pigment dispersion production plant.

Ultratech LDA is a well established distributor to the coatings and industrial markets in Portugal and Spain. They are the latest addition to the Keystone Europe distribution network that has been servicing the European colorant market since Keystone Europe’s founding in 1998.

Keystone Aniline Corporation is pleased to announce the development and commercial launch of a 13 dye palette of colorants, the Keyplast PET range, with FDA Compliancy for PET. With the ever demanding growth of PET for packaging, bottles and many other FDA applications, new colorants and special effects have become a necessity. Based on the work done in Keystone's Chicago color application laboratories, Keystone Aniline Corporation has been granted "Letters of No Objection" on the complete current range of colorants from Keller & Heckman LLP thereby allowing for their use in Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for food-contact applications. The Letters of No Objection detail the wider application and use flexibility these dyes give processors when working with PET.

Keystone Aniline Corporation truly believes this approach to the mass coloration of PET is a more economical approach, and when formulated properly can create new opportunities for customers in a very competitive "Food Contact" market.

Information, data and copies of the Keller & Heckman "Letters of not Objection" are available by contacting us or your Keystone Sales Representative. Please contact Keystone Aniline Corporation at 1-800-522-4393 or email us at info@dyes.com for additional technical information or samples.

Keystone Aniline Corporation and JF Shelton Company have signed an agreement to have JF Shelton represent and promote the Keystone Aniline dyes product lines in the states of Washington and Oregon.

JF Shelton Company is a leading distribution company with a sales organization, offices and warehouses in Portland, OR and Kent, WA. JF Shelton will call on and service existing Keystone accounts in these two states as well as develop new opportunities for expanding sales in the region. JF Shelton Company has a well established reputation in the coatings, inks, janitorial supply and cleaner markets in Oregon and Washington.

Keystone Aniline Corporation, headquartered in Chicago, is the largest privately owned dyestuff, pigment and pigment dispersion supplier in North America. Keystone has a liquid dye and pigment dispersion plant in Inman, SC, as well as additional offices and warehouses in Phoenix and Huddersfield, UK.

Keystone Aniline Corporation is pleased to announce the hiring of Paul Bedard as Business Manager for Inks & Coatings industries. Paul will have responsibility for marketing strategies and product line development of the various dyestuff, pigment and pigment dispersions colorant lines supplied by Keystone to the inks and coatings markets. He will work very closely with the technical groups in both the Chicago facility and the liquid dye and pigment dispersion plant in Inman, SC.

Paul was previously with the coatings group of Ciba and held several positions in sales and marketing.

Keystone Aniline Corporation has announced that Brian Foley joined the company on August 1, 2007 as Key Account and New Business Development Manager.

Brian has spent his entire professional career in the color business, most recently as Director of Sales for Spectra Colors Corporation and prior to that as North American Sales Manager for Morton and then Rohm & Haas Corporation after their aquistion of Morton. He began his work in the dye and color business with Sandoz/Clariant.

Brian will report to Steve Maiolo, Vice President of Sales & Marketing.

Keystone Aniline Corporation is pleased to announce that Mr. Doug Morgan will be joining Keystone Aniline Corporation as the new Technical Sales Representative for Southern California, Arizona and Utah.

Doug brings several years of both color and dispersion experience to Keystone from his work at most recently at Brentag, and prior to that with Noveon and Sun Chemical. Doug has called on ink, coatings and plastics accounts in the western US for over 12 years and has established an excellent reputation in these industries.

We are very excited to have Doug become a part of the Keystone sales team and would like to welcome him to the organization.

Keystone Aniline Corporation is pleased to announce Nick Vertucci will has joined the organization as a new Technical Sales Representative.

Nick will be covering the Mid-Atlantic sales territory for Keystone taking over for Dennis Senackerib who was recently promoted to Business Manager for the Industrial Color Compounding market segment.

Nick previously held sales and marketing roles with Heucotech, Micro Inks and Toyo Inks.