As food and beverage brands increasingly seek to support a circular economy by using more recycled PET (rPET), several aesthetic and processing challenges inherent in rPET are also emerging. To help combat these issues, Avient today announced the launch of ColorMatrix™ Optica™ PET blue toners and…

Ampacet, a premier global provider of masterbatch and additive materials, services and solutions, will strengthen its presence and service in the Russian market with the expansion of its plant in Tver, Russia. The expanded site started up the additive production line in the beginning of 2021.
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Consumers are demanding improved sustainability in the products they buy and from the companies who make those products. Those sustainability demands also extend to the product packaging, and Avient Corporation continues to launch material solutions that are meeting the challenge.

Chroma Color Corporation has developed a unique product line explicitly designed for use with recycled materials. ChromaPCRPET allows brand owners to further increase the levels of PCR within their package, supporting increased Sustainability Goals.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued patent No. 10,941,257 to Chroma Color Corporation for its versatile color concentrate carrier system designed to color clear resins such as PET, PETG, Tritan, PC, Acrylics and others without affecting their clarity.

Avient announced the launch of Rejoin™ PCR Masterbatch for polyolefin packaging applications. Made with post-consumer recycled (PCR) polyolefin as a carrier resin, Rejoin PCR Masterbatch can enable a bottle or part to be manufactured from 100 percent PCR.

Holland Colours announces the introduction of Thermostretch, a new answer to one of the biggest challenges facing PET packaging manufacturers: how to accelerate PET production while maintaining a high level of light barrier protection.

Taste consistency can be an issue with PET packaging, which is why Holland Colours offers PET colorants that include TasteGuard.

Chroma Color Corporation experienced an increased demand for enhanced masterbatch and functional additives during 2020, and we anticipate this “specialized” trend to continue in 2021. Chroma Color expects plastic processors to expand their focus on Color Solutions for Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR)…

Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services, will complete an expansion of existing production capabilities for color concentrates at its Binh Duong site in Vietnam by next month. The move will improve speed-to-market and service level for…

Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services, today announced that Avient ColorWorks™ has launched ColorForward™ 2022. This 16th edition of the annual color forecasting guide for the plastics industry marks its debut within Avient, which was…

Croda’s Smart Materials business will work in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast to develop a new sustainable slip additive for polyester packaging. The R&D project starts in October 2020 and lasts for 12 months. The aim of this work is to develop a novel polymer additive solution to…