Pink Underwear Dye???
 
Keycolour is the supplier of the Famous Sherriff Joe Arpaio’s Pink under wear for the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, AZ. We have supplied this dye to Maricopa County for many years and many of the Jails and institutions throughout the United States use our easy to use Quik Pak dye system. We supply dye for over dying inmate jumpsuits. We can take unusable items in your stock room and turn these items into useful garments and cleaning towels by a simple dye process. Our lab in Phoenix can match almost any color and supply your laundry with easy to use pre-measured water soluble packages so you can get repeatable colors time after time. Instead of disposing of these usable items why not  (read more...)

Shop Towel Dyes
 
Shop towel dyes are made using a direct dye. Congo Red was the first direct dye developed in 1884 and proved to be the forerunner of a large class of synthetic dyes for dying cellulose. Direct dyes get their name from the process used for dying they are applied directly to cellulose without the use of any mordant. Mordants were needed prior to the discovery when trying to dye any cellulosic with virtually any natural colorant. Direct Dyes are water soluble and can be applied to cotton, rayon, linen, hemp, jute and ramie. Most direct dyes have limited wet fastness in medium to full shades unless they are after treated.
 
A Typical dye bath consists of dye, salt and an anionic wetting  (read more...)

Recycling used Cotton Shop towels and Rags with KeyColour dyes.

Why do we dye used towels and rags? Companies are trying to save money wherever possible. By using an inexpensive dye to color code used cotton goods, companies can extend the life of the shop towels and cleaning rags. New towels may be dyed to a light yellow or orange and used for a housekeeping application. These towels are kept separate from other cotton products by their color. Workers know what cleaning formula to use based on the color of the towels. After a number of uses they may be dyed to a red and used as a shop towel in a manufacturing plant or automotive shop. Then finally after these have been used and stained they may be dyed navy  (read more...)

Recycling out of service nylon walk off mats.

During these tough economic times many industrial laundry customers have gone out of business and the laundries are encumbered with out of service company logo mats and colored mats that may have stains.

Here at Keycolour we sell an over dye kit to change these non serviceable items into black mats that your company can rent at a fraction of the cost of purchasing new walk off mats.

The process uses your existing equipment and the mats may be dyed as an addition to the washing process. The dyeing process can be done in less than 1 hour and the recovery rate is usually 95%. 

For those tough dye logo mats we have developed a new Super Black Mat kit that can cover almost  (read more...)

Reclaiming used Polyester Napkins

It’s that time of year when it’s starting to look like Christmas. Here at Keycolour we can sell industrial laundry over dye kits to freshen your customer’s Christmas Red and Christmas Green napery for a fraction of the cost of purchasing new. The simple process uses your existing equipment and the process takes about two hours to complete. Why buy new napery when you can get many more turns for pennies on the dollar?

Maintaining consistent quality on Resorts and Hotel Towels

We have noticed a wide variety of shades and quality in imported towels, wash clothes and bathmats. After a few washings there are many different shades of beige towels. We sell a popular, easy to use, permanent dye kit to enable these products to look  (read more...)

Here is a question that we received from a customer:

“I was looking at Keycolour’s website and noticed that is was very similar to another company’s site that sells dyes for shop towels and industrial laundries. What I would like to know is who is the original?” Gene Miller….

Answer:

Thanks for your interest Gene.

Keycolour is the original! We Have been supplying the same high quality dyes to Industrial Laundries, Resorts, Hotels,Prisons, Hospitals and Institutions for over 25 years. We are the originator of the Power Pak dye system as well as Colourfast and Vat dye kits, products that our competitors do not offer. Our highly experienced staff is available to answer any of your dye questions. Please trust the leader, Keycolour.

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Dyes Products, in today’s industrialized laundry business has a crucial role to play. In the sense that it is a much preferred option than purchasing new garments. The various unique products and solutions offered by the laundry market is a widely accepted fact to all.

You can “redeye” your clothing accessories, other consumable items to “colours you want to achieve” as there are a wide array of laundry companies offering their own colour code, colour library, best dyeing methods as each wants to be at par with the other in this cut throat competition.

Nowadays, with increase in textile Dyeing Products, Colours Dye has a lot to offer. It has a wonderful collection and combination of colours code with its innovative ideas just to make people aware of the latest Dye trends  (read more...)

Phoenix (Arizona) based key colour is the premium provider of industrial colouring and laundry dyeing solutions. With continuous research and development in producing the desired set of vibrant dyeing colours, Key Colour is able to serve all its customers with varied set of requirements.

key colour has state of the art colour matching laboratories in Chicago and Los Angeles, where technicians and colour experts are always engaged in development of new set of colours. No matter what type of cloths you have to dye or re-colour, you will surely get a matching colour at Key Colour’s store. In fact, Key Colour is one of rare dyeing products provider who offers “hard to get” colours to its customers.

Colouring and laundry dyeing solutions provided by Key Colour is competent for both  (read more...)

Could we even think of life without colours?

When we close our eyes for a while, you must have noticed that tiny colourful dots seem to appear before our shut eyes. And it’s when we move towards deep sleep, that we see wonderfully colourful world of dreams.

It’s this colour that gives life its true meaning. Colour is one factor that is of an utmost importance for this entire universe. Look how little child colours the sceneries in his painting! He uses a generous amount of vibrant, beautiful and eye-catching colours for it! At that time a specific and intelligent child looks for hard to get colours that only one can imagine in   (read more...)

Could we even think of life without colours?

When we close our eyes for a while, you must have noticed that tiny colourful dots seem to appear before our shut eyes. And it’s when we move towards deep sleep, that we see wonderfully colourful world of dreams.

It’s this colour that gives life its true meaning. Colour is one factor that is of an utmost importance for this entire universe. Look how little child colours the sceneries in his painting! He uses a generous amount of vibrant, beautiful and eye-catching colours for it! At that time a specific and intelligent child looks for hard to get colours that only one can imagine in their dreams. can produce those colours also for  (read more...)