Typically additional products such as surfactants are also added to help stabilize the color formulation. Importantly these advances also now allow color to be combined with additional functional additives without impacting process stability. Some key questions to consider when implementing liquid color: • Is your colorant addition negatively impacting or enhancing your process efficiency?

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Additionally, color can be integrated into the additive in a Smartbatch™ combination concentrate for seamless incorporation of both color and stain-resistance efficacy in the fiber with the spin-dyeing (dope-dyeing) process, a one-in-one fiber manufacturing and dyeing method using no water.  Marketing Manager Fiber Global, Color & Additives in Avient. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™.

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A wide range of color options enable manufacturers to create almost unlimited combinations of color and gloss for bottles with a brilliant, attention-grabbing appearance. The consumer market has never been more competitive, and packaging is often the winning factor,” said Say-Eng Lee, general manager, Color and Additives Asia for PolyOne. These formulations offer our customers an easy-to-implement solution that creates out-of-this-world effects,” added Gary Fielding, global marketing director, Color and Additives at PolyOne.

With the recognition, OnColor™ NIR Sortable Colorants are preferred for high-density polyethylene (HDPE) resin in black and dark colors, according to the APR Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability. In addition, testing is underway to support an application for MPG recognition for the same colorants for polypropylene resin (PP). As a leader in sustainable colorant and additive solutions for polymers, we are proud to have received this recognition from the Association of Plastics Recyclers and look forward to further supporting our customers to reach their recycling goals,” said Mayendran Pillay, director of marketing for Color & Additives, U.S. and Canada, at Avient.

Paint adds a great surface finish to automobile parts, but painting always adds cost, time, and additional logistics requirements. Many car parts are painted, not just metal and thermoplastic exterior parts, but also thermoplastic parts in a vehicle’s interior,” notes Gary Fielding, vice president and general manager, Color and Additives EMEA at PolyOne. To provide customers with additional information on making the switch from paint to molded-in-color parts, PolyOne has created an eBook titled, “Trend Report: Efficient Manufacturing And Molded-In Color.”

Demand for plastics has become one of the Vietnam economy’s fastest growth areas,” says Say-Eng Lee, vice president and general manager, Color & Additives Asia for Avient. In addition, we can be more responsive in accelerating customer development times and help them to reduce time to market.” For example, the use of recyclable CESATM IR additives, which enable black plastics to be identified for recycling, can reduce the environmental impact of dark colored packaging.

Color Design The judicious use of color masterbatch, additives to provide texture to a part, and other color and additive formulations enable manufacturers to realize innovative color matching even as they incorporate new materials into the mix. Disparate colors: Mixing the colors of textiles in a car’s interior can stretch its appeal to new audiences.

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