Kobo Products, Inc.

US supplier of raw materials for the cosmetic industry since 1987, calling itself 'the powder & dispersion specialist'. Its range includes surface-treated pigments and powders (iron oxides, lakes and other pigments coated with its own treatments such as amino-acid, olive-ester and patented jojoba-ester treatments to make them hydrophobic or easier to disperse), pigmentary grade dispersions, coloured concentrates, pigmentary TiO2, effect pigments, microspheres and sunscreen materials. Headquarters in South Plainfield, New Jersey, with companies in Brazil, the UK, France and Japan (Kobo Dispatek, Kobo Products Asia Pacific) and independent agents elsewhere.