UNSPSC 12171609: Cadmium green

A class of pigments that have cadmium as one of the chemical components. Result of mixing cadmium yellow with viridian to give a bright, pale green mixture called cadmium green.

UNSPSC 12171609 Cadmium green, a Commodity code, covers the procurement of cadmium green pigment and colorant products by state and local government buyers. The code represents a narrow, specialized materials category used primarily in industrial manufacturing, paints, coatings, and specialty chemical applications where cadmium-based colorants meet performance or historical specification requirements. State and local agencies rarely procure cadmium green directly; when this code appears in solicitations, it typically reflects standing contracts with paint suppliers, industrial chemical distributors, or facility maintenance vendors who stock the material as part of a broader inventory.

The recent-opportunities block contains no entries for this code, indicating that cadmium green solicitations are absent from current state and local procurement activity tracked in the source. The absence of recent competitive notices under this Commodity code suggests either minimal or infrequent demand, reliance on existing blanket purchase agreements or cooperative contracts rather than new competitive solicitations, or a shift toward cadmium-free alternatives driven by environmental and occupational-health regulation. Firms pursuing this code should monitor cooperative purchasing vehicles and state paint-supplier contracts for reorder activity, and track whether state environmental or worker-protection policy is accelerating substitution away from cadmium pigments.