Gary Fielding, marketing director, PolyOne ColorMatrix, explained, “These new, eye-catching formulations give our customers the freedom to push design boundaries and react to global color trends, without disrupting their existing processes.

These and other insights presented can help customers react to market trends quickly and cost-effectively.    

CESA™ Light Additives Light Stability PRODUCT SELECTION GUIDE Exposure to the sun, heat, and oxygen through outdoor exposure causes the degradation of the polymer, resulting in yellowing, loss of melt strength, and loss of mechanical properties in most resins. One method is through the use of stabilizers that react with radicals created from UV exposure, inhibiting polymer degradation.

Cesa™ Raise Heat Stability Modifier for APET Packaging Enhancing Heat Stability for APET Thermoformed Packaging Cesa™ Raise Heat Stability Modifier for APET Packaging

These colorants are highly compatible with polyester systems, reacting to become part of your final cured product.

Sustainability Spotlight Hydrocerol™ Chemical Foaming Agents Reflection electron microscopy (REM) view of foamed plastic Hydrocerol Chemical Foaming Agents are supplied as concentrates CHEMICAL FOAMING AGENTS (CFAs) are chemical substances that react under the influence of heat to release gas into the plastic matrix during the manufacturing process of plastic parts.

Enhances heat-up rate of the preform for energy reduction during bottle blowing. IV variability ColorMatrix™ rePrize™ IV Builder for PET Chain extender to repair PET chains, increasing the melt and intrinsic viscosity of rPET Reacts via melt extrusion and increases viscosity in the melt phase.

The flakes are then heated to over 400 degrees Fahrenheit (F) for several hours. Next, the heated rPET is stretched into long thin cables, cooled, and chopped into pellets. Perfect for Food & Beverage PET and rPET are non-toxic, do not react with foods, and provide thermal insulation.

This solution offers the environmental benefits and operational efficiencies of spin coloring, but with greater production flexibility and development speed to help brands and fiber producers react faster to market trends.”      

We have customers who are taking this color development technology in-house to develop colors in minutes, allowing them to react quickly to market demands, achieve multi-regional consistency, and gain a competitive edge.