Simplified colorant ordering and lower cost for personal care products manufacturer Provided custom colors and durable solution for high-traffic area mats

Avient provides these flame-retardant additives in the form of concentrates, allowing producers to combine them with color and other additives to meet performance requirements. Avient’s new flame-retardant additives are part of its comprehensive portfolio of color and additives solutions it is featuring at Fakuma 2023.

In 2023, Avient’s Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Color Prediction Service and Cesa™ Nox A4R Additives for Recycling were both featured in the Product Technology Innovation of the Year category, with the Color Prediction Service winning the overall award.   

Specifically developed for customers who want to enhance the sustainability of their general-purpose applications, the grades can be used for colored overmolded components in consumer electronics, caps and closures for non-food applications, product grips for razors and personal care products, handles for bicycles and power tools, and other overmolding applications.  They are easily colorable, suitable for injection molding and overmolding onto polypropylene (PP) substrates, and available globally. 

They are a natural color TPE that can be easily colored to match design specs or branding preferences.

They can be filled and reinforced or blended with glass, minerals, impact modifiers, colorants, and stabilizer systems to satisfy the required performance characteristics, including flame retardant performance.     Maxxam™ BIO formulations are natural and are easy to color.

Artisan™ Pre-Colored Formulation Artisan™ AR7300 pre-colored thermoplastics are customized ABS formulations to help manufacturers achieve brilliant and high-gloss metallic effect, excellent chemical resistance, and scratch resistance

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This new solution also improves the aesthetics of recycled packaging in terms of haze and color, including a reduction in the yellowing effect that may occur during recycling.

These injection moldable TPEs can be overmolded to polypropylene (PP) and come in a natural grade that can be easily colored.