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Chroma Color® Corporation Announces the Acquisition of Color Resource, LLC

chromacolorstg on August 26, 2021

June 28, 2021-McHenry, IL: Chroma Color® Corporation has acquired Color Resource LLC, a manufacturer of color concentrates for the telecommunications, fiber, building, electronics, and specialty wire markets. Color Resource’s manufacturing plant is located in Leominster, Massachusetts. This acquisition significantly expands Chroma Color® Corporation’s current product offerings in the wire and cable marketplace and other key market segments.

Founded in 2009, Color Resource has provided customers stock and custom color concentrates that meet Munsell, NEMA, RAL, and SAE J-1178 specifications for PVC, PE, PP, and EVA resins. These color concentrates often include additives for UV protection, anti-microbial, flame retardancy, anti-static, or chemical resistance for use in harsh environments.

Chroma Color® President, Howard DeMonte, stated, “We are pleased to now offer our current wire and cable customers with new moisture cure options for emerging markets such as low voltage, automotive, and appliance. Additionally, Color Resource’s plant in Leominster, Massachusetts, is very close to the Chroma Color®’s facility. This makes the blending of our companies easier on our team members and seamless for our customers.”

This key acquisition of Color Resource brings other technologies and know-how to Chroma Color®, especially for our customers in the wire and cable market. Our entire team is fully prepared and ready to support Color Resource’s customers during this time of transition. We are confident that customers will realize immense benefit as a result of Chroma Color®’s expanded capabilities to support their needs.

Chroma Color®:

Chroma Color® Corporation is a leading specialty color and additive concentrate supplier serving diverse markets, including wire and cable, packaging, healthcare, pharmaceutical, consumer products, and others. Chroma Color®’s growth strategy includes robust organic and inorganic growth through six acquisitions over three years. Chroma’s extensive technical leadership and manufacturing expertise, coupled with its game-changing colorant has delighted customers for more than 50 years. For additional information, please visit www.chromacolors.com.

Color Resource, LLC:

Color Resource manufactures premium quality color concentrates for the wire and cable, profile extrusion, and injection molding industries. All products are RoHS and REACH compliant. Color Resource offers an in-stock full-range line of Munsell and NEMA colors in PVC, PE, and standard EVA color concentrates exhibiting excellent electrical properties. Color Resource’s moisture cure XLPE compounds meet the needs of the low-voltage, automotive, and appliance wire markets.

https://color-resource.com/

Chroma Color® Corporation Introduces NIR Sortable Black Color Concentrate Solution

chromacolorstg on July 19, 2021

Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs) use IR (infrared) and NIR (near infrared) sorting technology to increase yield, improve throughput rates, and increase profitability. The challenge with this technology is its inability to properly identify and accurately sort black colored plastic products. Carbon black absorbs the light emitted from the IR devices and prevents the successful identification of the type of plastic. These unsorted black plastic products are rejected and, in most cases, end up in landfills.

Brand owners have published aggressive sustainability goals requiring a quantum leap in the recyclability of plastic articles. It is not acceptable to loose plastic articles to landfill solely because they are black or very dark in color. Significant resources have been devoted to creating black branded products, and viable practical solutions are required. Rather than sacrificing the brand’s aesthetic desires, the best option is to maintain brand recognition and replace carbon black with an alternative black coloring technology.

Chroma Color® now offers a solution to this problem. A carbon black alternative that does not sacrifice brand aesthetics but allows the MRF sorter to accurately and repeatedly identify and sort the plastic article.

Chroma Color®’s NIR sortable black technology is based upon IR reflecting/transparent pigments and proprietary combination of dyes and organic pigments.

This product is referred to as “NIR Sortable Black ” and is available in a variety of resins that include the most common packaging resins; polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, ABS and PET.

Key features of this color system:

Inert, heat stable, non-migratory

Can be used in a variety of polymers

FDA Approved

About Chroma Color®

Chroma Color® Corporation is a technology-leading specialty color and additive masterbatch supplier delivering critical aesthetics, technical innovations, and sustainable solutions to plastics processors and brand owners. Chroma Color®’s growth strategy includes robust organic and inorganic growth, having made six acquisitions over the last three years. Chroma Color®’s extensive technical leadership and manufacturing expertise, coupled with its game-changing colorant and light management technologies, have delighted customers for over 50 years.

Chroma Color® Now Has Concentrates Available For 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Applications

chromacolorstg on June 8, 2021

As the market for additive manufacturing and 3D printing grows and applications expand, manufacturers have expressed desires to enhance their capabilities with functional, colorful, and performance characteristics for the variety of resins being used. Chroma Color® can now provide filament and resin suppliers with pelletized concentrates to meet these needs.

Chroma Color® supplies concentrates for most 3D printing resins, including PLA (Polylactic Acid), PETG (Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol), PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate), ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene), HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene), Nylon, TPU (Thermoplastic Polyurethane) and more.

3D printing customers can count on Chroma Color® to provide required small lots to large production orders in a wide range of standard and custom colors. For material suppliers looking for unique custom colors, Chroma Color® will access our extensive color library and state-of-the-art labs to develop pelletized concentrates to meet exact specifications. To learn more, contact us at https://chromacolors.com/contact-us/

About Chroma Color®

Chroma Color® Corporation Was Issued a Patent for a Pellet Color Concentrate Carrier System Designed to Work in Multiple Clear Plastic Resins

chromacolorstg on March 9, 2021

On March 9, 2021, 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.

“ChromaTransparent concentrate pellet carrier system is also beneficial for coloring tinted parts that are often challenging to color,” stated Jeff Smink, Chroma Color®’s, VP of Technology. “We anticipate continued growth for this technology moving forward into 2021.”

To support that growth, Chroma Color® is installing a Sidel PET stretch blow molder in its Salisbury, NC facility. The technical team will color match for PET bottle customers using its UltraPET^® technology which is anchored by Chroma Color®’s newly patented carrier system.

UltraPET^® also incorporates Chroma Color®’s patented G3^® technology. Both technologies processes at a much lower temperature than conventional PET pellet concentrates. Lower process temperatures enable molders to reduce the heat stress on the pigments and dyes significantly. UltraPET^® also offers exceptionally high loading of pigments and dyes, that allows processors significant economic benefits of low usage rates (LDR)

OTHER KEY ATTRIBUTES OF THIS COLOR CONCENTRATE CARRIER SYSTEM INCLUDE:

No screw slippage in opaque PET applicationsIn most cases, the extremely low usage rates also eliminate the need for drying and recrystallization of the colorant common to the use of conventional PET pellet concentrates.These concentrates are resistant to alcohol for applications that require that additional benefit and can be formulated to be compliant with FDA regulations.Another great benefit is a reduction in housekeeping costs compared to the inherent messiness of liquid color.Chroma Color® has also recently launched a new line of UltraPET^® expressly designed for use with recycled material, enabling brand owners to achieve their sustainability objectives by using higher PCR PET levels.To learn more about ChromaTransparent download the product info flyer:

ABOUT CHROMA COLOR

Chroma Color® Corporation is a technology-leading specialty color and additive masterbatch supplier delivering critical aesthetics, technical innovations, and sustainable solutions to plastics processors and brand owners. Chroma Color®’s growth strategy includes robust organic and inorganic growth, having made six acquisitions over the last three years. Chroma’s extensive technical leadership and manufacturing expertise, coupled with its game-changing colorant and light management technologies, have delighted customers for over 50 years.

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