The plastic dyes market was worth about USD 4.25 billion in 2025. It should land near USD 4.47 billion in 2026 and reach roughly USD 5.88 billion by 2032, which works out to a 4.8 percent compound annual growth rate. Solvent dyes are the biggest product family at 38.5 percent, packaging plastics are the biggest end use at 35.2 percent, and Asia-Pacific takes 52.8 percent of global consumption. The one thing nobody planned for is a 300 percent jump in the price of the main disperse dye intermediate. Dye vs pigment for plastics: why they are not interchangeable Two technologies compete for the same job in plastics, and they behave…