Mason Color Works

Family-owned maker of inorganic pigments and ceramic stains in East Liverpool, Ohio. The business traces back to 1842, when James and Mary Mason founded Bleak Place Color Works in Stoke-on-Trent, England; F.Q. Mason moved it to East Liverpool in 1902. Mason Pigments are mixed metal oxide pigments for plastics (including food-contact items and toys), PVC building products such as vinyl siding, acrylics and powder coatings, with heat, UV and chemical resistance for architectural, coil, cool-roof, military, stove and exhaust-part coatings; its technical sheet lists cobalt aluminate and cobalt chromite blue spinels, cobalt titanate and chromium green, nickel antimony titanium yellow, chrome antimony titanium buff and zinc iron chromite brown grades. Mason Stains are stock and custom-blended ceramic stains for pottery, artware, bricks, sanitary ware and roofing; it also supplies pool and spa colors and cobalt aluminate nucleating agents for investment casting. It ships to customers in Canada, New Zealand, Europe and the Philippines.