Tianxu Natural Pigment Co., Ltd.

Tianxu Natural Pigment Co., Ltd., registered as Handan Tianxu Natural Pigment Co., Ltd. (邯郸天旭天然色素有限公司), was founded in 2018 and operates from the Economic Development Zone of Quzhou County, Handan, Hebei Province. It extracts natural colours and flavour compounds from plant material, with chilli peppers and turmeric as its principal raw materials.

Output is grouped into a turmeric series covering curcumin in natural, ethanol-extracted, water-soluble and oil-soluble forms, turmeric oleoresin, turmeric powder and a feed-grade curcumin, and a chilli series covering paprika red, capsicum oleoresin and chilli meal. It also produces red rice red (Monascus colour), shikonin red and peanut coat pigment, along with by-product streams including turmeric meal and red rice dregs. The company lists more than 40 product varieties across five series.

It is a national high-tech enterprise and a designated key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialisation. Reported curcumin output accounts for around 70 percent of Chinese production, and the company states exports to more than 80 countries. It exhibits at CPHI.