Homepage // News Center // Focusing on a Sustainable Future: Avient Joins as bluesign® SYSTEM PARTNER for Dope-Dyeing Fiber Colorants Avient Joins bluesign® SYSTEM for Dope-Dyeing Fiber Colorants. With dope-dyeing, the colorant is in the form of concentrate pellets added to the polymer pellets during the extrusion and melting process.

CLEVELAND – PolyOne Corporation, a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, is investing in its GSDI specialty dispersions business to better serve customers, improve operational efficiency, and launch innovative new colorant and additive solutions for silicone and other thermoset applications. Van Hulle, president, Color, Additives and Inks, PolyOne Corporation. PolyOne’s specialty dispersions business operates within its Color, Additive and Inks segment and provides colorant solutions specifically formulated to the exacting specifications for carrier systems such as silicone, rubber, vinyl, epoxy, urethane, and plasticizers.  

Tint this mixture with Wilflex Equalizers to a complimentary color to the foil or the flock. Do not mix more than the recommended 10 percent in to plastisol colors. Add about 10% of finished color. 

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We offer a variety of standard color choices for the Silcopas™ and Silcogum™ product lines.  With over 25 Silcopas and Silcogum colors in stock, most orders ship within 24 hours.

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Provides heat stabilization • Excellent balance of properties • Natural, black or custom colors Product Code - - - PX5430 B1 PX5435 B1 PX5440 B1 PX5450 B1 Reinforcement Type - - - Glass Glass Glass Glass Reinforcement % - % - 30 35 40 50 Specific Gravity 73°F (23°C) - ISO 1183 1.13 1.18 1.23 1.35 Tensile Strength Yield MPa ISO 527 102 105 113 130 Flexural Modulus 73°F (23°C) MPa ISO 178 6500 8000 9400 11,500 Notched Izod Impact 73°F (23°C) kJ/m2 ISO 180 9.4 9.3 11.0 12.0 Heat Deflection 264 psi °C ISO 75 152 152 153 154 Product Code - - - PP5120 B270-LO MFR g/10 min ISO 1133 12 Tensile Modulus MPa ISO 527 3320 Tensile Stress Yield MPa ISO 527 32 Tensile Elongation Yield % ISO 527 4.6 Tensile Elongation Break % ISO 527 17 Flexural Modulus MPa ISO 178 3000 Charpy Impact 73°F (23°C) kJ/m2 ISO 179/1eU 38 Heat Aging 150°C h VW 44045 700 hr VOC µg/g VDA 278 23.5 Fog µg/g VDA 278 30.5 Carbon Emissions µgC/g VDA 277 18 Odor Grade VDA 270 B3 3 10 Maxxam™ Filled & Reinforced A range of melt flows to process well in sheet extrusion, thermoforming, profile extrusion and blow molding operations

Specialty acquisition broadens solutions portfolio of colorant and additives technologies for fiber applications  Global Color, Additives and Inks segment, which last month unveiled its revolutionary new ColorMatrix™ Fiber Colorant Solutions that provide late-stage color injection in fiber applications utilizing liquid solutions.  president, Global Color, Additives and Inks,