Plastic Color Concentrates for Packaging - PVC Compounds for Packaging

PACKAGING

In the high demands of packaging, marketing requires a balance between form and function. Working with a vast array of polymers from olefins and styrenics to engineering resins like acetal, nylon, acrylic, poly carbonate and polyester, we have years of experience in the world of packaging products. We also produce PVC compounds in natural and clear, as well as formulations for producers of self-adhering films and tapes. Color Master meets these needs of our customers by offering the aesthetics of color and design but also functional additives that can provide necessary protection of the goods being distributed and sold. Some of the functional additives include anti-static and slip agents, anti-blocking additives for films and sheet products, and light diffusing additives. Our specialty additives include laser marking, x-ray identification, and a developing line of ESD products.

Products

Color Concentrate

PVC Compounds

Additive Compounds

Liquid Colorants

Specialty Compounds

Dry Colors

Color Concentrate

COLOR CONCENTRATES

The necessary pigments needed to achieve the target color are compounded at a high concentration into a “carrier” resin that is the same as, or compatible with, the end use polymeric resin. They are used at a prescribed let-down ratio (LDR) and mixed with a polymer base to be processed into the customer’s finished parts.

PVC Compounds

PVC COMPOUNDS

Specialty blends of PVC resin, additives, and processing aids tailored to the physical properties needed by a customer’s product and process. These are formulated for their service environment, be it indoor or outdoor.

Additive Compounds

ADDITIVE COMPOUNDS

Concentrated or ready to use products containing additives for special performance or aesthetic properties including light diffusion, UV Light protection, Electrostatic dissipation (ESD), Antimicrobial, flame retardants, and gloss reduction.

Liquid Colorants

LIQUID COLORANTS

Same as the pelletized version, only the polymer carrier is replaced by a liquid carrier. This allows the pigments to be highly dispersed and optimizes the color and capabilities of the pigments and additives. Color Master employs the use of non-toxic liquid carriers that can be easily cleaned up with water and mild detergents such as Simple Green. This product is packaged and intended for use in a closed system. It does require the purchase of a relatively low-cost dosing pump.

Specialty Compounds

SPECIALTY COMPOUNDS

Enhanced, ready to mold products. Typically compounded with functional additives or fillers for special attributes or specific physical properties.

Dry Colors

DRY COLORS

The necessary pigments needed to achieve the target color are specially mixed with a dispersion agent, or process aid. While cost effective, the handling and cleanup of loose powder in a machine can be labor intensive.

Processors

Injection Molders

Sheet Extruders

Profile Extruders

Blow Molders

Roto Molders

Injection Molders

INJECTION MOLDERS

Injection molding of thermoplastics is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting heated, molten material into a mold. The material for the part is fed into a heated barrel, mixed, and forced into a mold, where it cools, or cures, and hardens to the configuration of the mold.

Sheet Extruders

SHEET EXTRUDERS

Sheet extrusion is the process of producing a continuous single gauge sheet made typically of a thermoform polymeric material. An extruder, consisting of a barrel and combination conveying and mixing screw, forces the material through a slot die. The material is conveyed through rollers that keeps it flat as it is cooled. The resulting sheet is then trimmed and cut to a desired dimension, or spooled onto a roll.

Profile Extruders

PROFILE EXTRUDERS

Similar to sheet extrusion, profile extrusion is the process of producing a continuous multi gauge profile part made typically of a thermoform polymeric material. An extruder, consisting of a barrel and combination conveying and mixing screw, forces the material through a die. The material is conveyed through another set of dies in a cooling tank that maintain the desired profile until it it fully cooled and set. The resulting product is then cut to a desired dimension, or spooled onto a roll.

Blow Molders

BLOW MOLDERS

Similar to injection molding, blow molding of thermoplastics is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting heated, molten material into a mold. The material for the part is fed into a heated barrel, mixed, and forced into a mold. Air is then forced, or blown, into the mold where the material forms around the air bubble and it cools, or cures, to harden to the configuration of the mold

Roto Molders

ROTO MOLDERS

Rotational or “Roto” molding is a slow and simple process where a thermoplastic material is placed inside an enclosed mold. The mold is then clamped inside a chamber and is set to rotate in what is typically a dual axis frame. During the rotation, cycles of heating and cooling take place allowing the material to flow and form, through gravitational force, to the configuration of the mold.