MATERIALS | COLOURS


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Customer collaboration at Broadway


consumers while ensuring the bottle’s functionality.


Recyclability In the durable goods sector where products are designed for a longer lifetime, collection, disas- sembling, and recycling is far from where it needs to be. Swiss additives and colour masterbatch supplier Sukano is meeting this challenge by considering the right end-of-life option for each product before its life even begins. As Business Development Manager Onno Treur explains: “We get a lot of requests to replace certain polymers with the goal of achieving better recyclability. This means we need to modify colours, but also work with certain additives such as impact modifiers, IV enhancers, etc. We see more bio-based polymers, such as PLA, being used now. Looking at the food packaging industry in particular, there is high potential in applying this material, modified and un-modified, to durable goods.” Another company shifting focus to help custom- ers achieve their sustainability objectives is US manufacturer Chroma Color, which cites a collabo- ration between its technical team and customer D6, a packaging manufacturer headquartered in Portland, Oregon, as an example. Items containing recycled materials may exhibit grey tints, black specs, or other minor imperfections, which can impact their appearance. Analysis of these issues culminated in Chroma Color recommending its G3 manufacturing technology, which has the com- pany’s highest available loadings for pigments, dyes, and additives, in pellet form. The company says this allows improved coloura-


tion of virtually all plastics, including recycled material. By transitioning to this material for PCR applications, D6 was able to lower let-down rates, process products at lower temperatures, reduce transport costs, lower its carbon footprint with smaller shipment sizes, use less colour concentrate, and decrease warehouse storage requirements.


Edward Dominion, Founder & CEO of D6, says:


“We now have an excellent PCR product to offer our customers, one that exhibits an appealing shelf presence, reduces costs, and provides additional sustainability benefits.”


CLICK ON THE LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION: � www.budenheim.com (QolorTech) � www.avient.com � www.borealisgroup.com � www.loreal.com � www.basf.com � https://broadwaycolours.com � www.rowasol.de � www.kraussmaffei.com � www.hnp-mikrosysteme.de � https://natureplast.eu � www.ampacet.com � www.hollandcolours.com � www.sipasolutions.com � www.sukano.com � https://chromacolors.com � https://d6inc.com � www.alfarben.com


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