DNQ actives and UV CtCP plate coatings — made in India.
Fine photosensitive chemicals for the printing and electronics trade.
Orion manufactures diazonaphthoquinone building blocks, sodium salts and ready-to-use coating systems for UV CtCP offset plates and electronic photoresists — engineered at our works in Karad, Maharashtra.
From diazo building blocks to ready-to-use plate coatings.
Orion Freedom 2-1-4
The core water-soluble DNQ salt and the precursor converted to sulphonyl chloride for downstream esters.
Freedom Plus 1413
Ready esterified DNQ-cresol resin — the main photoactive component for DNQ coating solutions.
2-1-4 Diazo Sodium Salt — Building Block
A high-purity diazo intermediate supplied with molecular structure and certificate of analysis.
Orion Next CtCP — One Pack
Developer-free negative-working UV CtCP coating that dries to tack-free and develops in plain water.
CtCP plates that develop in plain tap water.
Our multi-polymer Orion Next coating produces negative-working UV CtCP plates that need no alkaline developer. No corrosive chemistry, no developer to maintain, no strong effluent in city sewers — just water.
How it works →Two industries, one chemistry.
UV CtCP offset printing plates
DNQ actives form the photosensitive layer in computer-to-conventional-plate systems, imaged by 360–375 nm UV laser plate setters across commercial and packaging print. Orion Next developer-free CtCP coating.
Electronic circuit photoresists
The same diazonaphthoquinone chemistry serves as a positive photoresist for patterning electronic circuits, where resolution and clean development matter. Freedom Plus 1413 DNQ-cresol ester.
Built for printers and manufacturers who value reliable supply.
Tell us your plate system, substrate or photoresist process and we'll recommend the right grade — with full specifications and datasheets on request.