These statistics are for the Synthetic dyes and pigments industry, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 32513.
| Year | Establishments | Shipments ($ millions) | Employment | Imports ($ millions) | Exports ($ millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada estimates Source: Statistics Canada Note: The step change in establishments observed in 2004 was due to a change by Statistics Canada in the minimum threshold size necessary for inclusion of establishments in the annual data. This change had only a minor impact on other principal statistics. | |||||
| 2003 | 32 | 557 | 1 325 | 736 | 374 |
| 2004 | 32 | 531 | 1 228 | 743 | 390 |
| 2005 | 35 | 530 | 1 246 | 695 | 431 |
| 2006 | 32 | 502 | 1 162 | 637 | 448 |
| 2007 | 33 | 465 | 1 149 | 577 | 445 |
| 2008 | 34 | 444 | 1 144 | 569 | 420 |
| 2009 | 33* | 391* | 1 054 | 502 | 373 |
| 2010 | 33* | 510* | 910* | 537 | 464 |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing synthetic organic and inorganic dyes, pigments, lakes and toners.
Exclusion(s): Establishments primarily engaged in:
- manufacturing carbon, bone and lamp black (32518, Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing)
- manufacturing wood or coal tar distillation products used as dyeing materials (32519, Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing)
- manufacturing paint (32551, Paint and Coating Manufacturing)
- manufacturing printing ink (32591, Printing Ink Manufacturing)
- manufacturing toners for photocopiers, laser printers and similar electrostatic printing devices (32599, All Other Chemical Product Manufacturing)
Examples:
- Antimony based pigments
- Azine dyes
- Azo dyes
- Barytes based pigments
- Black pigments (except carbon, bone and lamp black)
- Ceramic colours
- Chrome pigments (for example, chrome green, chrome orange, chrome yellow)
- Colour lakes and toners (for example, organic pigments)
- Colour pigments, inorganic (except bone, carbon and lamp black)
- Colour pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black)
- Copper based pigments
- Direct dyes
- Disperse dyes
- Dyes, inorganic and synthetic organic
- Ferric oxide pigments
- Fluorescent dyes
- Food colouring, synthetic
- Inorganic pigments (except bone, carbon and lamp black)
- Iron based pigments
- Lakes (for example, organic pigments)
- Lead pigments
- Litharge
- Lithopone
- Metallic pigments, inorganic
- Organic pigments, dyes, lakes and toners
- Pearl essence pigment, synthetic
- Pigments (except animal black, bone black), organic
- Pigments (except bone, carbon and lamp black), inorganic
- Stains, biological
- Titanium based pigments
- Toners (except electrostatic, photographic)
- White extender pigments (for example, barytes, blanc fixé, whiting)
- inc based pigments