Transform your products into shelf-popping items with our Color and Appearance masterbatches.
Designed to elevate the aesthetics of your end applications, we offer a broad color portfolio and unique surface effects. Whether you're seeking eye-catching brilliance or subtle elegance, our customizable formulations help your products stand out on the shelf.
From matt shades to special-effect colors with pearlescent, satin or sparkle effect: Discover our broad color portfolio for polyesters, biopolymers, engineering resins and high-temperature polymers that can be customized to your individual needs.
Built on extensive technical expertise and with advanced equipment, our solutions combine aesthetic freedom with sustainability. Choose from a variety of colors for biobased or biodegradable polymers such as PHA, PLA, and PBS(A). Streamline your recycling processes with our NIR-detectable colors and blacks for PET, PETG, PP, and PC that allow accurate detectability and sortability based on plastic type.
Meet your individual requirements for quality, regulatory compliance, processing behavior, and application characteristics with our tailored formulations. Our specialized color grades address specific regulatory needs, providing you with high-quality solutions and light protection for sensitive applications in the pharmaceutical, food, toy, and cosmetic industries.
Our color masterbatches are highly concentrated formulations that provide excellent homogenization.
Some polymers naturally have a color or tint that can affect the visual appeal of the final application. Additionally, exposure to light and heat can cause discoloration. Achieve a neutral look with SUKANO® Color Correction masterbatches. They absorb UV light and re-emit it as visible blue light to correct the yellowish tint in PLA and recycled PET, allowing you to increase the proportion of such materials without compromising the brightness of the application.
Our Color Correction masterbatches counteract discoloration to maximize the use of recycled content, optimizing optical clarity and shelf-appeal of the end application.
Take control of your product's aesthetics and achieve durable matt surface finishes. SUKANO® Matting Agents are integrated directly into the polymer, adding a permanent matting effect directly during film or sheet extrusion. This technique requires no additional coating or adjustments to your processing equipment. You can even produce matt films using your existing polished cooling roll, saving both costs and effort.
Together, we can develop various surface finishes, ranging from anti-reflective to satin and frosted looks.
With consistent distribution throughout the application, you achieve a durable matt effect and eliminate the need for coatings.
Transform your general-purpose resin into a high-value application with the help of clarifying masterbatches.
Unclarified PP often appears hazy, which can be a significant drawback for applications that demand high transparency. By enhancing the nucleation in PP with SUKANO® Clarifier masterbatches, you can enhance the clarity of your final product: Clarifiers control the formation of spherulites at higher speed, scatter less light and promote better optical quality. This approach allows for flexible quality adjustments and customizable transparency levels to meet your specific needs.
Due to the improved crystallization process, Clarifiers enable faster cycle times and better overall productivity, enabling the manufacturing of clear PP thermoform and injection molded parts.
Discover our lighting management portfolio and achieve uniform light scattering for optimal illumination.
Transparent polymers do not distribute light, leading to hotspots and shadows in LED lighting applications. With SUKANO® Light Diffusion masterbatches, you effectively diffuse light while enjoying aesthetic freedom, from transparency to translucency or opalescence. Switch to energy-saving LEDs for your polymer lighting applications to enhance your product’s sustainability profile, all while meeting the certifications and safety requirements for use in hotels, healthcare facilities, offices, retail spaces, or industrial environments.
Our masterbatches are available for PET, PETG, PC, and PMMA, providing you with maximum flexibility in materials and end applications.
Create an even and smooth scattering of light for a transparent, translucent or opaque look of the end application with SUKANO® Light Diffusion masterbatches.
Whether you require color samples or proof of concept for newly developed products: Our experts support you with various services. In our lab, key parameters like filterability (filter pressure value) or intrinsic viscosity (IV) are carefully matched to your manufacturing conditions, ensuring smooth and efficient operations. Our state-of-the-art equipment allows us to evaluate newly developed products and to receive samples as injection-molded plaques, mono-films, or coex-films. You’ll also benefit from expert guidance on critical topics such as compostability, recyclability, food contact, and pharmaceutical packaging, helping you stay compliant and competitive.
Our experienced coloristic team engineers all colors to your material and end-use specifications with accurate color matching and formulation tools to ensure excellent consistency and quality. We measure haze, transmission, clarity, and gloss, and conduct precise quality control, ensuring your products achieve the exact visual quality and properties you envision.
Ensuring NIR-Detectability
Together with renowned sorting equipment manufacturers, we test our NIR-detectable color masterbatches according to the COTREP protocol. These high standards certify that end applications containing our masterbatches can be sorted effectively in recycling facilities that use NIR optical sorters.
Masterbatches with Proven Compostability
We collaborate closely with accredited testing labs and certification bodies to ensure our products undergo rigorous compostability evaluations and certifications. These partnerships guarantee that our masterbatches not only enhance the aesthetic appeal of your products but also comply with their intended end of life and respective regulations.
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