Teknor Color has 12 standard colors that are readily available to ship in any quantity short notice. They are: white, grey, black, red, yellow, brown, light green, green, light blue, blue, pink, and orange.

We excel at providing our customers with custom colors. We can work with paper swatches, paint chips, metal plaques, pieces of fabric, or even a rough description of the desired color. Using advanced spectrophotometers our color laboratories help ensure color matching and quality assurance. Custom color solutions are available for injection molding, blow molding, sheet extrusion, profile extrusion, and rotational molding.

Special effect colors can help you differentiate your products in the marketplace, no matter your industry. For the building and construction sector, our current options include:

Fluorescent:

Our line of fluorescent colors consists of six colors (green, yellow, red, pink, orange, and purple). One series is formulated in a PP carrier for use with clarified PP. The other series is formulated for use in natural polyethylene.

Frosted/Translucent: 

Frosted or translucent special effects are available in light blue, light green, lime, dark green, yellow, and red concentrates. Due to the heavy metal-free pigments in a polypropylene carrier resin, a frosted effect can be produced uniformly throughout the molded or extruded product enhancing its consumer appeal.

Frosted colors are supplied as nominal 0.125 to 0.0625-inch pellets or beads and can be used with homopolymer or copolymer polypropylene resins at a let down ratio of 50:1.

The Super Concentrate Series encompasses Color Crystals®, Color Spheres®, and Ultracolor® products, incorporating 200% higher pigment loadings in the same unit volume as standard concentrates. This provides the user with a 30-60% cost savings compared to conventional concentrates without any processing or end-use limitations. Feeder technology improvements now allow processors to use Super Concentrates at low dosage rates with excellent results.

Color Crystals® are supplied as 1/16 or 1/32 (15.9 or 7.9 mm) beads and are designed for use in polyolefins.

Color Spheres® are available for styrenics and polyolefins, and are supplied only in 1/32-inch form to provide improved incorporation, particularly in large flat surface parts. Ultracolor™ can be used in multiple polymers, including PS, ABS, PC, acrylic, PP and HDPE. It is provided in 1/16 or 1/32 (15.9 or 7.9 mm) beads. Other Ultracolor™ benefits include improved impact strength in HDPE, and solid dispersing in certain engineering resin alloys, such as PC/ABS blends. Its affinity for both polymer matrices allows for superior performance compared to conventional products. The Ultracolor™ carrier also precludes the need for drying characteristics of typical ABS and PC concentrates.

Developed to meet growing customer demands for use in goods that are biodegradable or based on renewable resources, our bioresin colors and concentrates are suitable for injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding processes. Teknor Color has three series of color concentrates: PLA-carrier concentrates, biodegradable co-polyester carrier concentrates, and PETek® PET-carrier concentrates.

The three series of colorants differ in terms of their carrier resins, which are either PLA or polyesters compatible with PLA and thus readily blended into it and are available in custom colors:

• PLA-carrier concentrates are for use in PLA-compatible resins.
• Biodegradable co-polyester carrier concentrates are recommended for blown film extrusion, and other applications that require greater flexibility than is provided by 100% PLA formulations.
• PETek® PET-carrier concentrates are for non-biodegradable applications where use of a biopolymer base resin such as PLA is desired. 

Teknor Color also developed a series of bioresin functional concentrates. They can be used to improve the PLA process and/or performance.

• Terraloy® PLA Process Improvement Concentrates: A nucleating agent and a melt strength enhancer for color concentrates.
• Terraloy® PLA Performance Improvement Concentrates: Two impact modifier color concentrates one each for injection molding and extrusion processes.

Pre-colored compounds are polymer systems that are ready for fabrication when received by the molder. Contrary to the term "pre-color," these compounds may be natural in color but contain special additive systems. Pre-color compounds can also consist of just one pigmented resin, or one containing both color and special additives. Custom pre-colored compounds are available based on all types of thermoplastic resins, and are suitable for use in all fabrication processes.