Contents Include:
Don’t Panic! Or What to do When Colors Go Terribly Wrong; Development and Quality Control of Clear Precolored Compounds; Rheological and Processing Improvement of Highly-Loaded Masterbatches Containing Titanium Dioxide; A Day In The Color Application Laboratory / And Now The Rest of the Story; Trends in the Supply of Color Concentrates in NAFTA; Blending For Profit; A New Look at Nucleating Agents For Use in Propylene Color Concentrates; The Impact of Additives and their Order of Addition on Color and Performance of Nylon 6; A New Technology to Enhance Reprocessing and Recycling of Condensation Polymers; Taking the ‘Hex’ Out of Hexavalent Chromium; Ethylene Acrylate Copolymers for the Masterbatch Industry; The Use of Fischer-Tropsch Hydrocarbons in Polyolefin Color Concentrates; The Effects of Metallic Pigment Dispersions on Physical Properties of Engineering Thermoplastics; Use of Gloss Retention to Measure Photodurability in TiO2 Pigmented Polyolefin Systems – Examination of Method Accuracy; Remember Your Acid-Base Chemistry When You Formulate!; New Developments in Low Warping Pigmentations for Injection Molding Applications; Can We Match Plastic to Paint?; Effect Pigments Instrumentation – A Review and Projection; Hydrolytic Stability and Water Absorption of Additive Blends; Use of UV Cured Coatings on Plastics