COLOUR MANAGEMENT | TECHNOLOGY


(LLDPE) colour concentrates. The announcement came shortly after Chroma Color acquired Ferco Color, a manufacturer of colorants, additives, and specialty compounds, also based in California.


Location advantage Many suppliers are seeing advantages in consoli- dating or reorganising supply chains to reduce costs. UK company Prisma Colour, which offers custom colour development, uses its location to its advantage by gearing its services toward UK customers and offering repeatability, traceability, and premium colour consistency. The company says: “All our liquid dispersions are manufactured at our HQ in the UK, supported by exceptionally strong purchasing power that enables us to secure raw materials reliably and cost-effectively even when the market is challenging.” This March, X-Rite Pantone opened its Color Academy in Shanghai, China, which will offer systematic and standardised colour courses and solutions for industries including printing, textiles, automotive, and plastics, helping China’s colour industry move toward high-quality development. Michael Zhu, General Manager of X-Rite Pantone


Greater China, said that the plan is to leverage the Color Academy as a platform to deepen the dissemination of professional colour knowledge, strengthen university-industry collaboration and sector coordination, focus on talent development and professional skills enhancement, and drive industrial upgrading. The development came shortly after X-Rite signed a definitive assets purchase agreement to acquire software and firmware assets of Rutherford


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Budenheim’s Global Application Centre for Polymers in Vaassen, Netherlands


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