Phthalocyanines are the second most important class of colorants. They are commonly used as blue and green pigments in automotive paints, printing inks, and textiles. Phthalocyanines also have applications in technologies like inkjet printing, laser printers, and optical data storage. The document discusses the traditional and modern uses of phthalocyanine colorants as well as the raw materials and market segmentation for phthalocyanine pigments.

1. Phthalocyanines
Project Feasibility
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2. Applications
Phthalocyanines are the second most important class of colorant, and
copper phthalocyanine is the single largest-volume colorant sold.
• Traditional uses of phthalocyanine colorants are as blue and green
pigments for automotive paints and printing inks and as blue/cyan
dyes for textiles and paper.
• Phthalocyanines have also found extensive use in many of the
modern high technologies, e.g. as cyan dyes for ink jet printing, in
electrophotography as charge generation materials for laser printers
and as colorants for cyan toners. In the visible region,
phthalocyanines are limited to blue, cyan and green colours.
• However, their absorption may be extended into the near infrared
and by suitable chemical engineering it is possible to fingerprint the
700-1000 nm region.
• The properties and effects of these infrared-absorbing
phthalocyanines are diverse and cover many important hi-tech
applications, including photodynamic therapy, optical data storage,
reverse saturable absorbers and solar screens.

5. PHTHALOCYANINE BLUE

8. Raw Materials Required

9. Market Scenario
• Phthalocyanine Pigments
Market: Segmentation The
market for Phthalocyanine
pigments can be segmented
on the basis their
application, end-use, and
region.
• Based on applications, the
Phthalocyanine pigments
market can segments into –
plastic, paints and coatings,
ink, rubber, textile, leather,
soap and detergent, and
other industrial.