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Color Changing Effects
OnColor™ concentrates for transparent polycarbonate create chameleon-like color changing effects for electric vehicle interiors.
Colorants for an Environmental Aesthetic
OnColor™ Shades of Nature color collection reflects the look and feel of elements found in nature, such as stone, marble and granite.
PHOTO CAPTION: At PIAE 2019, PolyOne is presenting its deep portfolio of advanced polymers, colorants, and additives that help automotive manufacturers keep pace with changes in technology and consumer demand.
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Color and Additives Solutions Overview
Colorant and additives overview and capabilities
Polymer Colorants
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Vehicle color harmony
Liquid colorants
Color Cosmetics
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OnColor™ Colorants for Wire & Cable
Color and Additives Solutions Overview
Colorants and Additives for Wire & Cable (EMEA)
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Avient ColorForward™ Experts Predict Pandemic Likely to Influence Color Preferences, Even in 2022
Each trend theme also includes a palette of five associated colors that are predicted to elicit a response from consumers.
“For 2022, the overall color palette is dominated by shades of yellow,” explains Judith van Vliet, ColorWorks Senior Designer and leader of the ColorForward team, “and many of the other colors are joined to the yellow family.
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Masterbatch colorants
Vehicle color harmony
Color Cosmetics
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Can PK be colored and what are the limitations?
Polyketone is naturally a burnt orange color and is known to be more challenging to color.
These can be colored at the press or with pre-color.
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The NEUSoft express colors offer high-performance TPUs in neat or 20% barium sulfate-filled formulations.
Colorant Chromatics™ Transcend™ Premium Healthcare Colorants: These high-temperature formulations are engineered to provide vivid, biocompatible colors for medical devices.
Mevopur colorants can be used for various needs, such as brand recognition and differentiation, drug identification, and visual appeal.
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Coloring
Therefore, they require less color concentrate to achieve a particular color and the colors produced are cleaner (less yellow) than other TPEs.
Dry colors have also been used but may require more material and time to perform color changes.
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Avient’s transportation portfolio includes sustainable technologies that offer lightweight structural alternatives to metals, while delivering comparable or improved performance; reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions to improve interior air quality; specialty colors & effects enable paint replacement technologies.
Paint replacement technologies, including Artisan™ ABS portfolio and Molded-In Color Metallic
The Solution & Impact
By utilizing a combination of Avient’s OnColor™ Colorants, Hydrocerol™ Chemical Foaming Agents, and Smartbatch™ Combination Colorants & Additives, we enabled the OEM to reduce weight and carbon emissions in panel doors, increase UV resistance in instrument panels and replace traditional paint processes in central consoles.