Although the history of organic pigments products has only more than 100 years, the fresh colors and various kinds push people develop more and more new type organic pigments. With the fast development of the organic pigments producing, China has had more than 170 companies and factories so far.
We have 141 colors so far, including 40 yellowish, 11 orange, 64 reddish, 5 violet, 14 bluish, 7 greenish/brown/black. Below are most widely used: C.I pigment yellow 12, C.I pigment red 57:1, C.I pigment red 48:2, C.I pigment blue 15:3...etc. The data of 2010 pigments outputs is 220kt, which has been 20 times than 1986. And the outputs of 2013 is 274kt. The increasing of pigments outputs is obviously fast.