Our focus is on global growth and
product perfection

No matter your industry, we’re well equipped to be your color-based raw material supplier.

Our global growth strategy focuses on the highest level of sustainable and eco-friendly technology to support the industry, particularly the consistency of our high-quality inorganic pigment brands. All of them provide advanced and sustainable solutions in the highly technical and demanding coatings, plastics and construction markets.

We operate manufacturing facilities and divisional offices on five continental regions: America, Asia, Australasia, Europe and Africa.

Well-built distributing networks and worldwide divisional offices coupled with the state of art manufacturing facilities enable us to deliver the best quality inorganic pigments to our valuable customers in every location.

Flexibility, cost-effectiveness and customer orientation have made us a world leader in inorganic pigment technology.

Empower Color Globally

OXERRA, formerly Cathay Industries founded in 1979, quickly developed a strong reputation as the iron oxide pigment experts. Iron oxide is our core business. The incredible demand for iron oxides of varying purity, used for industries from construction to coatings, plastics to pet food, and cosmetics to pharmaceutical colouring, made it apparent that no one supplier was yet able to provide the complete range needed in many industries.

To fill this need and better serve our customers, Oxerra began to diversify by acquiring numerous successful regional distributors and specialty manufacturers in order to provide complete top-to-bottom pigment, ingredient, chemical and raw material solutions for industry. Through all these changes, however, we took special care to maintain our core focus of exceptionally high quality iron oxide pigments.

Today, Oxerra is a global name and a leading materials supplier worldwide, with a particularly strong presence in Europe and the rest of the world where finding cost-effective suppliers can sometimes be challenging. Simply by having a wider range with access to more advanced products and service levels second to none, we’ve helped strengthen the region’s manufacturing landscape, bringing more solutions to a broader audience than ever before.

Oxerra Group

Oxerra is a global supplier, with manufacturing facilities and divisional offices on five continents, and a strong presence in Australia and New Zealand. After starting life as a dedicated manufacturer of synthetic iron oxides, Oxerra pursued assertive diversification in order to become one of the few truly worldwide manufacturers and suppliers of complete colouring, additive and ingredient solutions. Today we’re proud to lead the field in a number of vital areas.

  • Our state of the art Iron Oxide manufacturing, coupled with partnerships in high quality synthetic and natural colours for use in any industry, puts us at the forefront of the total colour industry.
  • Oxerra’s principals and trading partners give us the means to be a complete raw materials supplier in any industry, bringing the benefits of economy of scale to our customers.
  • The diversity of our operations also encompasses contract mixing and blending, packaging and logistics services. This capability differentiates Oxerra from other chemical and raw ingredient suppliers while adding value at every step and helping us deliver cost-effective, fully customised supply solutions.

Oxerra Facilities

Oxerra is supplying manufacturers and fueling businesses all around the world, and each major location has its own dedicated management. We have distinct organisations in the United States, Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa, with a particularly strong manufacturing presence in the USA, Europe, China and across South-East Asia, coupled with strong distributors covering all regions of the globe. This lets us deliver better customer service and more finely honed solutions in every location, built on a clear understanding of your industry needs.

Our better known facilities include:

  • Two state-of-the-art Iron Oxide pigment plants in Tongling (Anhui Province) and Yixing (Jiangsu Province) that are among the world’s most well-appointed, efficient and environmentally compliant plants.
  • A purpose built, state of the art finishing plant in Batam, Indonesia (opened 2023)
  • Dedicated, state of the art spray dried granule plants in Tongling China, to meet the growing requirements of the global market.
  • Synthesis including CICP, liquid dispersions and finishing plants in the UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Italy, China, Indonesia and Australia. 

Our expansive facilities, broad range and global reach, coupled with our divisional offices and close attention at local and national levels, means that we are able to deliver the best range of inorganic pigments without losing sight of the flexibility, cost-effectiveness and focus on customer needs that has made Oxerra a world leader.

No matter the industry, Oxerra is well equipped to be your main chemicals, materials and raw ingredient supplier.

“The one-stop-shop for all inorganic colored pigments.”

Oxerra UK

Oxerra Deutschland

Oxerra Europe

Oxerra Italy

With production sites in Kidsgrove, UK for CICP’s and Sudbury, UK for dispersions

Located in Walluf, Germany, this site mainly produces Granufin and is responsible for the European Construction business

Located in Ninove, Belgium, this site produces dispersions and is responsible for the European Coatings, Plastics and Specialty business.

Located in Turin, Italy, the site produces Iron oxide pigments for markets such as Construction (concrete, roof tiles, paving stones, facing bricks), Coatings (paints, plastic, paper, inks), Specialties (cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, catalysts, food, pet food)