The Shepherd Color Company makes complex inorganic color pigments for demanding applications, building on a Cincinnati manufacturing heritage that began with porcelain-enamel colors in the 1920s. Founded through the Shepherd family’s original 1916 enterprise, the fifth-generation, family-owned company now supplies pigments globally, including infrared-reflective colors that help products stay cooler and resist sun damage. Its quality system is maintained to ISO 9001 requirements, alongside a stated effort to reduce environmental impacts and improve sustainability.
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Mason Color Works IncFive generations of the Mason family have carried Mason Color Works from its 1842 founding in Stoke-on-Trent to its present-day plant in East Liverpool, where the family-owned company continues a pigment-making tradition established in Ohio in 1902. Its deep ceramic expertise is matched by a history of technical innovation, including the development of cobalt-nucleating compounds for investment casting. The company serves manufacturers worldwide while retaining the personalized approach of a small business.EAST LIVERPOOL, OH
Ceramic Color & Chemical Manufacturing CompanyCeramic Color & Chemical Manufacturing Company is a Pennsylvania manufacturer whose roots reach back to nineteenth-century Germany and whose American operation was incorporated in Pittsburgh in 1929. Based in New Brighton, it is one of the few remaining U.S. pigment producers, supplying inorganic pigments and specialty chemical solutions to customers in consumer, industrial, and defense markets.NEW BRIGHTON, PA
Lever Colors, IncEstablished in 1936 to supply ballistic dyes to the U.S. government, Lever Colors remains a privately held, U.S.-owned family company making colorants and providing toll manufacturing for colorant businesses. Based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, it is now led by great-grandson Scott Lever and supports customers with custom formulations and color matching. The company also emphasizes resource-efficient manufacturing and environmental stewardship through the ChemStewards program.BENSALEM, PA
The Shepherd Chemical CompanyFounded in 1916 by Lee Shepherd, The Shepherd Chemical Company develops and manufactures metal-based specialty chemistry, working with customers from initial concept through commercial production. Still shaped by fifth-generation Shepherd family members, the Norwood-based company has spent more than a century turning metal chemistry into solutions used in technologies ranging from airbag safety to sustainable industrial processes. Shepherd holds ISO 9001:2015 certification and participates in the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® Management System.CINCINNATI, OH