Flint Group Pigments is shuttering a West Virginia manufacturing facility because of a decline in demand for a dye used in printing ink.The Herald-Dispatch reports about 50 people will lose their ...

The closure of the plant at 2401 5th Ave. is a result of declining demand worldwide of alkali blue, a fairly permanent pigment made from an alkali blue dye that is used chiefly in printing inks ...

All bases are not alkali. They turn red litmus paper to blue having pH value greater than 7. Let us study through this article about alkali, its properties, uses and about alkaline solution.