Keystone Europe LLC are please to announce that Mr. Alan Bush has joined the organization as UK Sales Manager.  Alan has over 27 years service and experience in the colour industry and will be concentrating on expanding Keystone Europe’s sales within the UK.   Alan will report to Mr. Sean Bostock, Keystone Europe's Managing Director.

Keystone Europe, headquartered in Huddersfiled, UK, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Keystone Aniline Corporation.  Keystone Aniline Corporation is the largest privately owned colourant manufacturer and supplier in North America with offices and manufacturing in Chicago, Inman, SC, Huddersfield UK and also Singapore and Shanghai.

For additional information about the products and services available from Keystone Europe and Keystone Aniline please contact info@dyes.com or info@keystone-europe.com.uk.

Keystone Aniline Corporation now offers a new Technical Bulletin on our complete line of Dyes for Inkjet inks.  The full line of water soluble dyes for inkjet formulations contain products that are highly purified specifically for the this demanding market.  Keystone’s Technical Bulletin #289 shows the entire line of Inkjet suitable dyes that includes:
Keyacid Tartrazine Liquid Supra        Acid Yellow 23       
Keyacid Tartrazine RO Liquid        Acid Yellow 23       
Keyamine Yellow GGN-IJ Liquid        Direct Yellow 107 / 132   
Keyreact Red F3B-RO Liquid        Reactive Red 180   
Keyamine Blue FBL-IJ Liquid        Direct Blue 199
Keyacid Blue FG Liquid            Acid Blue 9       
Keyamine Black SP-IJ Liquid        Direct Black       
Keyamine Black HF-IJ Liquid        Direct Black       
Keyacid Rhodamine XB-RO Liquid    Acid Red 52       
Keyamine Violet BRW-IJ Liquid        Direct Violet 99       
Keyjet Black CRD Liquid        Pigment Black    

Technical Bulletin #289 and information on the full line of dyes and colorants offered by Keystone can be requested at info@dyes.com.

Keystone Aniline Corporation continues to expand our product range of Nerosol dyes for the wood coatings marketplace.  The Nerosol liquid products are dye concentrates of specially selected, predominantly metal complex dyes formulated into solutions with glycol ether solvents.  The Nerosol dye ranges have complete solubility with alcohols, glycols, glycol ethers and water. 

The original line of 17 Nerosol liquid dyes has been expanded to now include two new complimentary product lines.

The Nerosol CRN range are 6 liquid concentrates formulated in a high flash glycol ether system that, like the original Nerosol line, can be shipped and labeled as non-flammable.

The Nerosol US range are based on the same 6 dyestuff as the Nerosol CRN range, but are formulated in a lower flash glycol ether system that allows them to be used with greater flexibility in a wider range of finishing and coating formulations. 

The option of being able to utilize either the Nerosol CRN line or the Nerosol US line gives formulators for wood stains and interior wood coatings much greater flexibility vs. competitive product lines offered in the marketplace.

All the Nerosol dyes are manufactured our Inman, SC liquid dye and dispersion production site.

A new expanded Nerosol shade card and technical bulletin are available by request from info@dyes.com

Keystone Aniline Corporation has expanded our product offering range for the Keyfast Spirit  line of solvent dyes. The Keyfast Spirit dye range are predominantly pre-metalized spirit soluble dyestuffs for use in wood finishing applications, foil coatings,  writing and printing inks, automotive refinishing and any other applications where lightfastness and ketone solubility are required.  Keyfast Spirit dyes are particularly suited for applications requiring bright, clean brilliant shades and transparency. 

These dyes can also be used for coloration of certain plastics such as cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate and polyester resins.

Some of the more popular and important colors Keyfast Spirit range include:
Keyfast Spirit Black X-51, Solvent Black 27
Keyfast Spirit Black KR, Solvent Black 29
Keyfast Spirit Orange RLN, Solvent Orange 99
Keyfast Spirit Orange RSE, Solvent Orange 62
Keyfast Spirit Orange RE, Solvent Orange 54
Keyfast Spirit Red BL, Solvent Red 122
Keyfast Spirit Fire Red G, Solvent Red 119
Keyfast Spirit Red BL, Solvent Red 127
Keyfast Spirit Blue 6G-SS, Solvent Blue 70
Keyfast Spirit Yellow 2GN, Solvent Yellow 82

A new updated shade card and technical bulletin has been prepared and is available by request from info@dyes.com.

The responsibilities of the position include:
     Brand and Product line management
    Technical, marketing and promotional support
    Expansion of market share in the USA and abroad

We are looking for a candidate with at least 5-8 years experience in the coatings and/ or ink market. We would expect a qualified candidate to have experience with pigments, pigment dispersions, and dyes and their application and formulation to the inks and coatings markets.  Product management experience, cost center management and product line marketing experience are essential.
The position would be located at our Liquid Manufacturing site in Inman, SC. and reports to the VP, Sales and Marketing
Please forward your resume to info@dyes.com.

Keystone Europe is pleased to announce they will be represented by a new agent in Spain effective 1st October 2009.

Dehisa Cedicam is a private company  working in the industrial coatings sector for many years.  They provide technical expertise and experience in water based and solvent based coatings applications and markets. They will bring a synergy with the Keystone range for the Coatings sector in particular the Nerosol Liquid Dyes and Keyfast Spirit Dye range.

Keystone Europe is based in Huddersfield, UK and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Keystone Aniline Corporation of Chicago, IL.  Keystone Europe supply a wide range of dyes, pigments and colorants for many industrial markets through Europe and other parts of the world.

 Keystone Aniline Corporation has entered into a distribution agreement with the Dow Advanced Materials Division of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”), to market and sell Dow’s line of AUTOMATE^TM and Fluorescent concentrated liquid solvent dyes in the United States and Canada.

"The AUTOMATE^TM brand has long been synonymous with quality and reliability," said John Andrews, Chief Executive Officer, Keystone Aniline. "The addition of this product line brings strategic expansion in the important specialty liquid solvent-based colorants segment."

"Keystone Aniline has a long-standing presence in the North American Color Industry and an excellent reputation for exceeding customer expectations through customization and technical support," said Steve Vogler, Global Strategic Marketing Manager for Dow’s dye business. "This relationship creates value for our customers by enhancing services such as color matching, special blending and custom packaging," Vogler added.

Effective May 1, 2009, Keystone Aniline began providing service and accepting orders from customers in the United States and Canada for AUTOMATE^TM brand and Fluorescent dye products.

Editor's note: AUTOMATE^TM concentrated liquid solvent dye is a registered trademark of Rohm and Haas Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.

Keystone Aniline Corporation is pleased to announce a North American toll manufacturing and supply agreement with Kemira Chemicals.  Keystone Aniline Corporation will have selected and specific liquid dyes toll manufactured by Kemira at Kemira’s South Carolina Bushy Park production plant.  This production will be for all markets, including the Industrial Coatings and Ink and Inkjet segments.  The manufacturing agreement will cover both custom and standard production from Kemira’s state of the art manufacturing facility. The new agreement will assure continuous and consistent supply of important dyes that are currently being supplied into these markets.

Keystone Aniline Corporation, an ISO Certified corporation based in Chicago, is the largest privately owned colorant supplier in North America, with operations in Chicago, IL, Inman, SC and Huddersfield, UK.

Kemira is a global market leader to the paper industry and a worldwide leader in the production of direct dyes, FWAs and pigments.  Kemira  will continue to maintain its strong sales and technical support programs focused on paper applications.  Kemira has ISO certified manufacturing facilities in both North America and Europe.

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