What Is Color Masterbatch? | High-class Color Masterbatch From Us Masterbatch

Beside Filler masterbatch, Color Masterbatch is also strength products that US Masterbatch is deploying. So, what is Color Masterbatch? How is it used and why manufacturers should use Color Masterbatch in their products? Let’s find it out in this article.

• What is Color Masterbatch?

The name says it all. Color Masterbatch, also known as “color concentrate for plastic”, is plastic compound granules used mainly to color plastic. Color masterbatch is made up of 2 main ingredients: pigment and engineering resin. In some special formulations, it also contains processing additives such as zinc, oils, waxes, etc. and/or fillers (the most popular filler used is Calcium Carbonate – CaCO3)

Color Masterbatch

Nowadays, color masterbatch is used widely in almost every aspect of life with various applications. Before talking about those applications, we should first need to know “How does it work?” in the next part of this article.

• How does Color Masterbatch work?

Color Masterbatch is a kind of dye with granules (various shapes) and its main purpose is to color plastic compounds and final products. Using color masterbatch in plastic production not only helps create great colors for final products, but also adds a number of other features without adversely affecting the environment. In particular, with high-quality color masterbatch raw materials and used in accurate proportions, plastic manufacturers will easily process and achieve output products with stable color and good light fastness, and excellent heat resistance.

As mentioned above, there are many types of color masterbatch that can serve many industries in life. For example: Blue, purple, white, black, yellow, red, etc.. However, each group of color particles has different effects. Typically as:

• White Masterbatch: This is the concentrated color additive for plastic. It has the effect of creating whiteness, opacity and brightness in the product. This white masterbatch is produced from the base resin, additives and Titanium Oxide pigment.
• Black Masterbatch: This product line is for black color of plastic products. The composition of this material line includes: Additives, virgin PE plastic and Carbon with a content of about 40 to 55% depending on the requirements of each product. Besides, it also helps the product to improve many other advantages such as: heat resistance, durability and UV stability.
• Other Colors-Masterbatch: Instead of Titanium Oxide or Carbon, Pigment is used for making color in these Color Masterbatch. Calcium Carbonate can also be used here to help reducing the cost, while maintaining the quality, even contribute some better specifications for final product, such as stiffness or brightness, etc..

White Masterbatch – Black Masterbatch – Blue Masterbatch

Depending on the production technology and requirements of final products, the amount of pigment used is about 0.5 to 3%. Basically color masterbatches are produced with a cylindrical texture. It has excellent heat resistance, excellent dispersion, and is particularly environmentally friendly. The most used color masterbatch is the basic colors like black, white, red, yellow, blue.

Summarizing, the benefits of color masterbatch can be listed as below:

• It does not pollute or generate dust in the workplace. Normally when working with pigments, the air is often polluted during work.
• The cost effective: Pigments provide a larger dose and are more expensive than by using color masterbatch.
• To make the pigment have better dispersibility in the product, the pigment must be refined in the production process of color masterbatch to improve the dispersion and coloring power of the pigment. The carrier of the special color masterbatch is the same as the plastic of the product, and has good matching. After heating and melting, the pigment particles can be well dispersed in the plastic of the product.
• It is conducive to maintaining the chemical stability of the pigment. If the pigment is used directly, the pigment will absorb water and oxidize due to the direct contact with the air during storage and use. After making the color masterbatch, the quality of the pigment can remain unchanged for a long time because the resin carrier seperates the pigment from the air and moisture.
• Ensure the stability of the color in final product. The color masterbatch particles are similar to the resin particles, which is more convenient and accurate in the measurement. They won’t adhere to the container during mixing, and the mixing with the resin is more uniform. Therefore, the stability of the addition amount can be guaranteed, so as to ensure the stability of the color in final product.
• Finally, Color masterbatch is very easy to use.
• Applications of color masterbatch in manufacturing

Color masterbatch and plastic resin are “the perfect duo” and they’re more and more being applied in many fields. With many properties like hard, durable and easy to shape and handle, but the cost of plastic is much cheaper. The number of plastic products created from color masterbatch has continuously increased throughout the years and has always been popular in the home appliance market or other industries.

• Color masterbatch in Packaging Application.

Along with the development of color masterbatch, the need to improve color and packaging design also increases because beside the actual quality of the product, the customer’s choice is greatly influenced by aesthetics of packaging. Therefore, color masterbatch, with its good dispersion, evenly distributed and stablility, obviously become the best choice for packaging industry.

Color masterbatch in PE films

Besides the packaging industry, textile is also one of the potential directions that color masterbatch companies are targeting. Nonwovens, carpets and rovings are the products which can apply color masterbatch in their formula very well, to increase value and aesthetics.

• Color masterbatch in automotive industry.

Since the 50s and 60s, automakers have begun to replace metal parts of cars and trucks with plastic. Color masterbatch is used because it allows for high aesthetic properties that make the car look attractive. Color masterbatch also allows special combinations to enhance specific plastic properties, such as anti UV or corrosion resistance. Products made through the masterbatch process include bumpers, roof boxes, headlights, taillights, interior parts and fenders.

Color masterbatch in automotive industry

• Color masterbatch in manufacturing houseware.

By implementing different methods such as extrusion, blow molding, injection molding, etc. Manufacturers can easily create many different plastic products from film to household appliances such as cans, bottles, etc. trays, boxes, … and furniture such as tables, chairs, cabinets, shelves, … vivid colors and extremely eye-catching. And as mention before, many people think that color masterbatch plays a similar role to plastic additives, because it also has the effect of increasing toughness, increasing smoothness, anti UV and anti-aging very well. This is also the reason why this is a plastic raw material that is trusted by many companies and businesses.

Color masterbatch in manufacturing houseware

• Color masterbatch in modern agriculture.

Color masterbatch also plays an important role in helping farmers and agribusinesses to harvest more agricultural products with higher yield and better quality. With the ability to reflect, absorb and transmit different colors in the light spectrum, in addition to the outstanding characteristics of durability and stability, colored masterbatch participate in the production of films used in agriculture, especially is planting and painting greenhouses.

Color masterbatch in modern agriculture

High-class color masterbatch from US Masterbatch JSC

US MASTERBATCH is one of the most experienced producer and has wide range of color masterbatch to be used in different plastic processing techniques/applications. These masterbatch are produced with maximum loading of high performance pigments. Client can select from our wide range of colors or can give us any shade including pantone shade. We can also develop as per your requirement and find a wide use in LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, PP applications.

If you need color masterbatch, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Lily – Business development manager

Whatsapp: +84888793698

Email: lily@usmasterbatch.com