Name: Why The U.S. Is Running Out Of Paint
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Can you guess what color of paint this is about to be?

There's color all around us that we do take for granted.

We look at every single day, don't appreciate.

And that all came from just the correct amount of color pigments into a gallon of paint, basically

The color economy touches nearly everything.

And so no matter what you buy, it's got a coating on it.

But right now, paint may be harder to come by.

If something goes wrong and gets sorted out then something else happened.

It takes specific pigments and access to global trade networks to move color around the world.

Who has the pigments to create that product?

That makes paint vulnerable to supply chain issues and climate change.

Two of the largest paint companies, Sherwin-Williams and PPG, have cited worsening supply chain

shortages, impacting their ability to manufacture product.

Meanwhile, home improvement retailers like Lowe's and Home Depot have seen earnings soar as customers

You know, our sales have actually gone up pretty substantially.

How long the disruptions will last is a matter of debate.

So why can't businesses and consumers find the colors they need to paint the world as we know

it? There's a lot of different kinds of paints and coatings, but no matter

I am the owner of Tonester Patents here in Orlando, Florida.

He fell in love with mixing paint during his part time job while still in college.

Today, let's make a brand new paint color.

It falls into like that oddly satisfying category.

The cool part about paint colors is that it's measured very precisely of how much pigment is

in each gallon to achieve a certain color to make a gallon of paint the exact same as the next one.

You have to have that same amount of color pigment in it.

As the industry began to progress through the age of industrialization, synthetic materials made from

oil and natural gas came into play based on polymer resins.

They outperform the organic materials in terms of durability, adhesion, chemical

resistance, oil resistance, water resistance, and so that took over the market.

The paint shortage is mainly isolated to synthetic paint.

The biggest part of the market is decorative, architectural, residential, and nonresidential

Then you've got those coatings that are applied in a controlled environment, factory environment,

automotive assembly plants, coatings that are applied on food containers and beverage containers.

The main paint ingredients are the pigments, which provide the color and hue resins for binding,

Solvent or water holds The other ingredients like the additives, and the additives vary, but can make

We'll call it the white pigment titanium dioxide.

TiO2 is the most costly pigment, and it represents approximately thirty one percent of all

pigments used as coatings raw materials, then pigments or colorants are added.

As the modern color industry developed, so did the standards for producing colors.

Swatches are used to communicate color accurately, so different companies can achieve the same colors,

At least subconsciously, the color is a language that explains something I think from a brand point of

Every color and color combination expresses something different.

I couldn't see Starbucks moving off of their green or Coca-Cola moving off of their red.

Thus, the standardization of color was born like the color index.

Another example is the Pantone color matching system, a standardized color reproduction system, and

It's measured visually by expert color technicians, but it's also being measured spectrally.

So scientifically, it has to be a clear standard, not a reference, a standard that's what

That kind of consistency, whether it's our cotton  formats or pigment formats or our print formats.

Raw material shortage is still it's something we have a meeting once a week to discuss, you know, what are

I get orders that sometimes I can't even keep up with.

Demand for paint materials soared over the pandemic as those quarantine took to DIY projects and home

improvement, but supply couldn't keep up with that demand during the setbacks Covid caused

Dealing with shipping problems and driver shortages, and dealing with containers, not being able to come

Dealing with the Suez Canal blockage it's a little different when you compare it to Walmart and

Target because they're bringing in finished products.

They're not bringing in intermediates and raw materials that have to be manufactured and

The vast majority of colored pigments are produced in India and China.

I do know that companies have been shipping raw materials by airfreight to meet the customer

We have been flying in things because we've had to.

We're doing everything we can to protect our clients.

Another incident that affected the industry,

Lyondellbasell, which is a major supplier of acetic acid, a precursor to the

vinyl residents that go into interior paint.

They had a major accident, and it took down a major core unit that supplied product globally.

And so the entire global supply chain felt that accident.

Climate change has also impacted production.

In a statement to CNBC, paint manufacturer PPG said a number of global suppliers have been impacted by

disruptions due to weather events in 2021, as well as recent Hurricane Ida impacts, the deep

freeze in the South slowed production of petroleum and plastics in 2021 that impacted a critical