Homepage // News Center // Generational Changes, Environmental Concerns, and a New Digital Universe Expected to Drive Color Preferences in 2023 As it has for almost two decades, a group of color and social trend experts from around the world convened for five days to identify four global trends that can be expected to influence consumers’ response to color over the next few years. The team assigned five colors and/or color effects to represent key elements of each trend for a total of 20 trend-based colors.

Homepage // News Center // InVisiO™ Color Inspiration 2018 from PolyOne Empowers Color Strategies for Designs That Captivate Because Color Inspiration 2018 is a foundational element of its InVisiO Color and Design Services, PolyOne can go beyond simple inspiration. Together with Color Inspiration 2018, designers and brand owners can work with InVisiO experts to develop new color palettes or even adapt existing colors to accommodate a new phase in a product’s lifecycle.

BU I L D I N G M AT E R I A L S R E TA I L E R R O O F I N G M E M B R A N E S • Improve marketing claims for product performance and polymer integrity • Prevent and improve field life, and protect product from the growth and appearance of flora, fungi and algae from outdoor environmental exposures • Ability to convert materials from liquid to solid in order to accommodate advanced manufacturing technique • Seeking OBPA alternative • Delivered a product differentiating solution that eliminated both polymer-degrading microbials and mitigated the flora and fungal accumulation that causes discoloration and staining • Enabled versatility with combined liquid and solid masterbatch solutions • Provided a cost-effective and environmentally friendly OBPA alternative WithStand™ Antimicrobial Additives KEY REQUIREMENTS WHY AVIENT?

Halal Certification Expands for Avient’s Colorants and Additives Produced at Indonesia Site New Black Colorants Available from Avient to Help Achieve High Jetness in Polyester Textiles Avient’s color and additives and specialty engineered materials teams look forward to highlighting their portfolio of sustainable polymer colorants

Homepage // News Center // PolyOne Inspiring Electric Vehicle Designs with Lineup of Trendsetting Polymer Colors PolyOne is supporting this trend with novel colors that add a spark of originality. PHOTO CAPTION: PolyOne supports creative design of electric vehicles with novel new colors.

Color is reflective light. Light travels into the color and reflects back to our eye the base and color of the sample we are viewing. Eventually, the color blocks enough light that it appears to be the correct color when viewed by eye.

The colored grades feature BASF’s Ultrason® polyarylethersulfones (PAES) as high-quality base polymer combined with Avient’s Colorant Chromatics™ high-temperature color formulation expertise for color concentrates and pre-colored solutions.  The market requirements for colored, high-performance polymers are clear: you have to react quickly and also be able to supply various volumes of colored material,” says Anne Hippert, general manager, Colorant Chromatics at Avient. The colored grades will be formulated and sold by Avient as Colorant Chromatics™ made with Ultrason® by BASF.

Colorant Chromatics™ Transcend™ Premier Healthcare Colorants PEEK Colorants: Colorant Chromatics™ PEI Colorants: Colorant Chromatics™

The end results are a perfect balance of color accuracy, vibrancy and opacity for peak press performance and color design.  As the most opaque color system in the Wilflex range, EPIC Rio maintains color precision and flexibility, and can help screen printers save ink and money by achieving color on press quicker, even with fine mesh-counts. Kevin Romine, Wilflex product manager, commented, “EPIC Rio’s color matches to Pantone color standards are spot on, and they strike a perfect balance between color vibrancy and opacity.

OnColor™ FX Special Effect Colorants Mevopur™ Healthcare Colorants and Formulations met industry standards and offered custom colors Colorant Chromatics™ and BASF Ultrason® high-performance polymers in metallic colors provided lightweight and food contact-approved colors solutions for molders