An overview of our broad portfolio of color and additive silicone dispersions. Learn how Avient's pre-dispersed colorants and additives give you the consistency and quality your products deserve Colorant and additive dispersions that provide enhanced performance and color consistency

Guided by their initiative to develop capabilities that provide additional protection for soldiers while reducing time and logistic requirements,¹ the U.S. It’s portable enough to be airlifted into remote sites and provides quick protection for troops with no additional equipment support needed.  These panels successfully encapsulate the bullet, preventing harmful ricochets and providing additional safety to the warfighter.

  – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced the addition of new capabilities to itsOnColor™ HC Plus portfolio in advance of the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) West show this week. James Petrie, marketing director for PolyOne Color and Additives, explained, “This expansion of the OnColor HC Plus portfolio reinforces our commitment to the healthcare industry and adds new alternatives for customers who seek to streamline their qualification, testing and supply chain management processes.” PolyOne is exhibiting a full range of polymer, colorant and additive healthcare solutions this week at MD&M West in booth 3213.

Avient’s color and additive solutions get your product noticed on the shelf and help reflect your consumer’s life style. Our UV protection additives help protect product efficacy during its shelf life. Protect your sensitive sun care formulas with UV additives, and keep your actuator buttons performing longer with chemically resistant TPE materials.

In addition, these concentrates are easy to process in the polymers most commonly selected for packaging,” said Christoph Palm, vice president, general manager, Color and Additives EMEA & India for PolyOne. These high gloss metallic effect colorants offer our customers an easy-to-implement solution that creates out-of-this-world effects,” added Gary Fielding, global marketing director, Color & Additives at PolyOne.

The new color and additive concentrates and tailored ready-to-use formulations are made with bio-based polycarbonate, ABS, or styrenic polymers. These are in addition to bio-based polyolefin materials that Avient introduced in 2021. These more sustainable additions to the Mevopur portfolio are being featured at Pharmapack Europe 2022, being held 18 and 19 May in the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

With the addition of this Phoenix site, there are now five ColorWorks sites across the globe, including Merate (Italy), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Singapore, and West Chicago, Illinois (United States).   With the addition of ColorWorks Phoenix, we can more readily collaborate with our customers, especially those in the western part of the United States,” said Mayendran Pillay, Marketing Director, Color & Additives for the U.S. and Canada.  

Additional weight, manufacturing challenges and ultimately, higher costs. In addition, the size required for an efficient metal heat sink may create design challenges that adversely affect nearby electronic components. And remember that polymers can offer a way to achieve lighter weight and improved design capabilities in addition to managing heat.

One aspect that sets Cesa Fiber Tracer Concentrates apart from other more complex taggant technologies on the market is that they can provide efficient, medium-level traceability with low investment because no additional equipment is required. You can learn more about the tracer concentrates here or about our other color and additive solutions for fibers here. Fiber Additives

There is significant momentum in the textile manufacturing industry toward developing sustainable solutions across the entire supply chain,” explains John Van Hulle, President, Global Color Additives and Inks, PolyOne. Further, several injection points can be added to run multiple colors or additives at the same time on a single extruder to enhance flexibility. In addition, these new solutions allow standard white polyester fiber producers with reactor spinning lines to produce colored products in-line, eliminating the need for a secondary aqueous dyeing process.