New sources of help in coloring plastics.* Two new color services for small to medium-sized firms that lack in-house color-matching and formulating expertise were announced at K 2004. One of the new services will be available online for a subscription fee. Ciba Color Services is a new business unit of Ciba Specialty Chemicals “Ciba” redirects here. For the pre-1971 company, see Novartis. Ciba Specialty Chemicals is a chemical company based in and near Basel, Switzerland. It was formed as the non-pharmaceuticals elements of Novartis were spun out in 1997, following the merger in the and one of its first ventures outside of selling chemical products. It is designed to help companies throughout the "color value chain"--including masterbatchers, plastics molders and extruders, and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and designers. Ciba Color Services helps designers with color choices through a partnership with color trend-analysis consultant Nelly nel·ly or nel·lie n. pl. nel·lies Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for an effeminate homosexual man. [Probably from the name Nelly, nickname for Helen.] Rodi of Paris, France. Ciba can then help customers formulate a color with the aid of its proprietary Colibri QuickMatch Pro software, which is available to other users. The software comes with an extensive pigment database, works in virtually all substrates, and can match opaque, translucent, transparent, and even pearlescents and special-effect shades without requiring a special multi-angle spectrophotometer spectrophotometer, instrument for measuring and comparing the intensities of common spectral lines in the spectra of two different sources of light. See photometry; spectroscope; spectrum. . Ciba supplies these services independently from its role as a raw-material provider. This is described as a "neutral" service that does not require use of Ciba colorant col·or·ant n. Something, especially a dye, pigment, ink, or paint, that colors or modifies the hue of something else. adj. Of or being a subtractive primary color. products. Online color assistance The second service will be available online early this year. Called matchmycolor.com, it is a new offering from SpecialChem, the French-based online additives information portal, in cooperation with Ciba Color Services, DuPont Titanium Technologies, XRite, and Nelly Rodi. Paid subscriptions will be offered for a range of time periods. Users can select colors from online catalogs that include the latest color fashions from Nelly Rodi. If the user has a color sample, it can be communicated to the system via an XRite spectrophotometer. Users can also enter actual colorimetric col·or·im·e·ter n. 1. Any of various instruments used to determine or specify colors, as by comparison with spectroscopic or visual standards. 2. data. Then, using Ciba's Colibri software (built into the service) and online colorant databases, users can formulate a color online by specifying a resin, an appropriate colorant set for that resin f users can also specify the colorant supplier or application requirements such as food contact, lightfastness, or non-warping), end-product thickness, and desired opacity Refers to being "opaque," which means to prevent light from shining through. For example, in an image editing program, the opacity level for some function might range from completely transparent (0) to completely opaque (100). . The system will then supply a number of alternative recipes, which can be ranked by cost, closeness of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color match (Delta E), or metamerism The quality of some colors that causes them to appear differently under different light sources. For example, two color samples might appear the same in natural light, but not in artificial light. . All colorimetric data for the match, including spectral curves, can be displayed. Color-matching results can be downloaded into an Excel spreadsheet or saved online in a private workspace. At present, only Ciba and DuPont have contributed pigment data to the color-matching database, but several other suppliers are said to be interested in joining. The website is www.matchmycolor.com. NEED TO KNOW MORE? For more information, enter PTDirectcode at www.ptonline.com. Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Pigments Div., High Point, N.C. (888) 873-2422 * PTDirect: 963ZD DuPont Titanium Technologies, Wilmington, Del. (800) 441-9485 * PTDirect: 518LD) SpecialChem, Paris, France +33 1 55 26 43 30 * PTDirect: 599W X-Rite, Inc., Grandville, Mich. (800) 248-9748 * PTDirect: 883JX |
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