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'Fade' effect colors for personal-care packaging.


New special color effects for personal-care bottles use multilayer coextrusion m provide a seamless transition from one color to another along the length of the container. The Fade Fade

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 effect comes from Clariant Clariant (SWX: [1]) is a Swiss speciality chemical company which was formed in 1995 as a spin off from Sandoz. The company expanded by the incorporation of the speciality chemicals business of Hoechst (Germany) in 1997 and the acquisition of BTP plc (UK) in 2000.  Masterbatches Div., Holden Holden, town (1990 pop. 14,628), Worcester co., central Mass., a residential suburb of Worcester; settled 1723, set off and inc. 1741. Manufactures include electrical and metal products, plastics, and machinery. . Mass. Says Len Kulka. director of creative development for packaging, "Imagine a bottle that is bright red at the bottom, fading fading

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 to pure white by the time you reach the top. Picture metallic purple changing to black or orange merging into blue. Just about any combination is possible, and the greater the contrast between the two colors, the better."

Color transition requires a special coextrusion head and at least two layers--the base color and the fade color. In development is using a third interior laver of uncolored virgin resin resin, any of a class of amorphous solids or semisolids. Resins are found in nature and are chiefly of vegetable origin. They are typically light yellow to dark brown in color; tasteless; odorless or faintly aromatic; translucent or transparent; brittle, fracturing  or virgin plus scrap. Also being tested is a fourth layer of post-consumer material between the virgin interior and the base-color layer.

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Title Annotation:keeping up: additives
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Nov 1, 2008
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