Manufacturing scale.
Technical precision.
Technical Resource & R&D Centre
Our UK technical team helps customers select, validate, and optimise colourant systems for their paper manufacturing process.
Support is delivered through our in-house laboratory and directly at customer mills, connecting product knowledge with practical production experience.
Developed around the application.
- Shade matching
- Target-shade duplication and development of new colour standards.
- Tailor-made blends
- Colourant products developed around furnish, additives, and process conditions.
- Compatibility testing
- Assessment with existing raw materials and paper-making additives.
- Troubleshooting and cost analysis
- Investigation of colour-related issues with a focus on process and material efficiency.
- Samples and shade cards
- Practical evaluation tools for product approval and colour communication.
- Analytical service
- Dye identification and analysis to support product selection.
Technical knowledge at the mill.
- Product support
- Guidance for product integration, optimisation, and long-term performance.
- Mill trials
- Planning and supervision of customer-machine trials for new or optimised colourants.
- Application optimisation
- Process studies for stock dyeing, coating, shading, and related applications.
- Mill surveys
- Review of current colouring processes to identify practical improvements.
- Colour School
- On-site training for production, quality, and technical teams.
From product development to dependable supply.
Waterside Colours combines manufacturing through affiliated RaviDyeware Group facilities in Maharashtra with specialist technical support from Brighouse, UK.
Together, these resources provide paper manufacturers with a practical route from product selection and shade development to full-scale supply, mill trials, and ongoing process support.
Capacity built for continuity.
Modern production units at Mahad and Taloja support an installed capacity of 30,000 MT per year across dyes and intermediates.
The two-site manufacturing network combines cost-effective scale with the flexibility to serve both regular supply programmes and specialised paper-colourant requirements.
Located within Maharashtra's established chemical belt, the facilities support supply resilience and responsiveness as customer demand changes.
Consistency begins with control.
Structured quality systems and analytical controls are used to support shade consistency, purity, and reproducibility across production batches.
Dedicated laboratories manage raw-material qualification, in-process checks, and finished-product validation. Certificates of analysis provide clear batch traceability for customer quality records.
Start with your paper grade, furnish, and target shade.
Our technical team can help define the most suitable route from laboratory evaluation to mill implementation.
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