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Ampacet launches new color service.


Ampacet Corp. in Tarrytown, N.Y., has formed the Color Innovation Team to focus on customers' future products rather than current color-matching needs. It will consult with consumer-packaging companies and molders on new and improved package designs. Explains strategic business manager Dot[g Brownfield See greenfield. , "This type of innovation may mean a development time that ranges from six months to two years."

One tool in this effort is Ampacet's new Sherlock A Macintosh utility starting with Version 8.5 of the operating system that provides a common facility for searching the local hard disk, the local network and the Internet.  TBCR (Total Bottle Cost Reduction) calculator. It is designed to help identify where processors can save money in day-to-day injection and blow molding operations. It could suggest a change to more cost-effective pigments, switching to more highly loaded concentrates, changing pigment pigment, substance that imparts color to other materials. In paint, the pigment is a powdered substance which, when mixed in the liquid vehicle, imparts color to a painted surface.  content in layers of a multi-layer container, reducing thickness of layers that contain expensive pigments, or changing molding machine (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings
(Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.

See also: Molding Molding
 settings for faster production. Tel: (914) 631-0556, www.ampacet.com
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Publication:Plastics Technology
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2004
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