Since 1989 Color Science Inc., has manufactured and engineered custom dry colorants to match the color and performance needs for many diverse applications. We can produce the highest quality colors in concentrate powder, pre-color and masterbatch resins for medical, aerospace, fluid handling, automotive and other plastic industries. Whether it’s by the bag, gaylord or truck we can help engineer and produce the right color with the right specifications rapidly to meet the tightest schedules.
Color Science offers color selector and color matching via our in house laboratory and quick accurate sampling for testing with color match chips. We can provide creative designs and formulations for new products or look back and provide failure analysis and reverse engineer for better performance and enhanced specifications. Whether its UV protection or additives of minerals, corn starch, ceramic powers, or our complete line of fiber additives from wood fiber, glass fiber, carbon fiber, even stainless steel fiber we have the experience that can exceed your expectations.
Specializing in Engineering Thermoplastic Materials as well as Commodities and Elastomers Color Science can also provide Custom Color Formulation and Pre-Colored materials to meet FDA and RoHS standards. As well as Color Concentrates, Masterbatch and Dry Color we also provide fiber reinforced plastics for impact modification, heat & UV stabilization, lubrication, insulation, anti-static or conductive or EMI/RFI shielding, and flame retardation.
About Color Science Inc.
Since 1989 Color Science Inc., has manufactured and engineered custom dry colorants to match the color and performance needs for many diverse applications. We can produce the highest quality colors in concentrate powder, pre-color and masterbatch resins for medical, aerospace, fluid handling, automotive and other plastic industries. Whether it’s by the bag, gaylord or truck we can help engineer and produce the right color with the right specifications rapidly to meet the tightest schedules.
Color Science offers color selector and color matching via our in house laboratory and quick accurate sampling for testing with color match chips. We can provide creative designs and formulations for new products or look back and provide failure analysis and reverse engineer for better performance and enhanced specifications. Whether its UV protection or additives of minerals, corn starch, ceramic powers, or our complete line of fiber additives from wood fiber, glass fiber, carbon fiber, even stainless steel fiber we have the experience that can exceed your expectations.
Specializing in Engineering Thermoplastic Materials as well as Commodities and Elastomers Color Science can also provide Custom Color Formulation and Pre-Colored materials to meet FDA and RoHS standards. As well as Color Concentrates, Masterbatch and Dry Color we also provide fiber reinforced plastics for impact modification, heat & UV stabilization, lubrication, insulation, anti-static or conductive or EMI/RFI shielding, and flame retardation.
Custom Standard Colorants
Color Science., (CSI), manufacturer of engineered custom formulations for pre-colored resins, concentrates and dry colorants to match color and performance of multiple industries.
So whether it’s and Aerospace, Medical, Automotive, Recreation or more, we support and provide superior colored resins for the full spectrum of the plastics industry.
Service and Technology
Color Science Inc., (CSI), provides formulations and color matching using experienced color technicians in our color laboratory. With our extensive experience, we are able to not only match color accurately, we can reverse engineer parts to update formulations for new demands required by new technology.
Our color plastics laboratory has extensive testing capabilities from color matching using color spectrometer to quantitative color measurement and visual analysis for state of the art color matches.
We also offer Tensile properties, Flexural properties. Elongation, Izod Impact, Melt Flow, Spiral Flow, Specific Gravity, Ash and UV analysis.
Team Bios
John Cessna - Logistics Manager
12 yrs. Military experience
21 yrs. working with all aspects of the Business Operations
Logistics Manager
Office Manager
Customer Service
Incoming- Outgoing Matches & Orders
Steve Hibdon - CSI Lab Manager
Color Science Inc. Laboratory Manager
Author OMS, QSP
ISO 9001-2000
ISO 9001-2008
Quality Coordinator, ISO Quality Management System
Over 30 yrs. experience in the Plastic Ind.
1989, Instrumental in startup of Color Science Inc.
Spent 3 yrs. as a Fire Fighter for United States Forest Service.
Tech Support & Certifications
Material identification and product quality assurance utilizing multiple analysis and evaluation techniques are used to ensure your color meets the most stringent regulatory requirements. With our QC process we check and test throughout the manufacturing process ensuring lot to lot consistency.
Our integrated ERP system coupled with our document control department assure color quality and customer technical specifications are met.
Color Science Inc., (CSI), provides documents on: Certification of Analysis; Material Safety Data Sheets, (MSDS); Restriction on Hazardous Substances, (RoHs), UL and Food and Drug Administration, (FDA) associated documentation.
Services
Custom Formulations
Color Science Inc, (CSI), provides creative formulations for color matching using our experienced technicians in our laboratory. With this experience, we are able not only color match accurately, we can reverse engineer part to update formulations to meet demands required by new technology. Color matches using spectrophotometer for quantitative color measurement and visual analysis for state of the art color matches.
We also offer Tensile properties, Flexural properties, Elongation, Izod Impact, Melt Flow, Spiral Melt Flow, Specific Gravity, Ash and UV analysis.
Quality Assurance
At CSI, our quality assurance is the process of verifying or determining whether our products or services meet or exceed customer expectations. Our quality assurance is a process-driven approach with specific steps to help define and attain goals and our process considers design, development, production, and service.
Modified Plastics commitment to Quality and innovation is reflected in the on-site Quality and Technical department, Plastics Analytical Laboratory ( PAL ). Our quality standards are executed through a systems approach, focusing on the customer and driven by excellence. PAL is an A2LA accredited laboratory, equipped the latest technologies in testing. Staffed with trained technical support as well as regulatory specialists, PAL is where your projects and products are tested and verified to meet the most demanding criteria and specifications.
The four quality assurance steps (PDMT) within the CSI Assurance Standards are:
Plan: Establish objectives and processes required to deliver the desired results.
Develop: Implement the process planned for.
Monitor: Observe and evaluate the implemented process
Test: Verify the results against the predetermined objectives and apply actions necessary for improvement if any.
PDMT is an effective method for monitoring quality assurance because it analyzes existing conditions and methods used to provide the product or service customers. The goal is to ensure that excellence is inherent in every component of the process.
Quality assurance also helps determine whether the steps used to provide the product or service are appropriate for the time and conditions. In addition, if the PDMT cycle is repeated throughout the lifetime of the product or service, it helps improve internal company efficiency.
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Applicable Industries
Color Science Inc., (CSI) colors are found in automotive, industrial, electrical, medical, recreational and more. With our expertise in engineered materials and our application development team, we consistently deliver innovative and cost effective solutions.
CSI colors are used in a wide range of applications. We offer cost effective material solutions for many markets, including medical application, material handling equipment and industrial components. CSI has the colors that meet medical regulations, RoHs, REACH, FDA compliancy and others.
Colors from CSI are also being used in refrigerators, dishwashers and small appliance. Our resins are manufactured to the highest standards of quality and can be engineered to withstand high temperatures, extreme weatherability and perform excellent in injection molding.
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Data Sheets
Amorphous Polymer
Polymer chains with branches or irregular pendant groups cannot pack together regularly enough to form crystals. These polymers are said to be amorphous. A two-dimensional schematic of an amorphous polymer is shown at the right.
Amorphous regions of a polymer are made up of a randomly coiled and entangled chains. They have been compared to a bucket containing a large number of entangled worms – each one 20-feet long and of 1/4-inch thickness1. The worms are so tangled that an entire worm cannot slide past the others, but small portions of the worms can twist around within the mass.
Amorphous polymers are softer, have lower melting points, and are penetrated more by solvents than are their crystalline counterparts.
Crystalline Polymers
Highly crystalline polymers are rigid, high melting, and less affected by solvent penetration. Crystallinity makes a polymers strong, but also lowers their impact resistance. As an example, samples of polyethylene prepared under high pressure (5000 atm) have high crystallinities (95 – 99%) but are extremely brittle21.
Small molecules and ions form a three-dimensional lattice with an extended regular structure that makes large crystals possible.
We usually describe such lattices with a unit cell – the smallest repeating unit in the lattice . In the case of NaCl, the unit cell is said to be face-centered cubic.
Polymer molecules are very large so it might seem that they could not pack together regularly and form a crystal. It now is known that regular polymers may form lamellar (plate-like) crystals with a thickness of 10 to 20 nm in which the parallel chains are perpendicular to the face of the crystals.
Elastomeric Polymers
An elastomer is a polymer with the property of viscoelasticity (colloquially “elasticity”), generally having notably low Young’s modulus and high yield strain compared with other materials. The term, which is derived from elastic polymer, is often used interchangeably with the term rubber, although the latter is preferred when referring to vulcanisates. Each of the monomers which link to form the polymer is usually made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and/or silicon. Elastomers are amorphous polymers existing above their glass transition temperature, so that considerable segmental motion is possible. At ambient temperatures rubbers are thus relatively soft (E~3MPa) and deformable. Their primary uses are for seals, adhesives and molded flexible parts.
Specifications
Advantages
Disadvantages
Polymer Family
PET
FDA, Easy fill, Medical applications, Ski boot strap
Limited Softness, Strong Acids and Bases
PUR
Wear, Caster treads, Pipe gaskets
Limited Softness, Sulphuric acid
PVC Ionomer
Colorable, Weatherable, Soft Grips, Sports equipment, Sunroof Seal
Wide softness range, Fuel, Acetone
PVC-NITRILE
Oil, Gasoline, Under the hood, Gaskets, Autoplug, Soft grip specialty
Not FDA, Fumes, Mold Deposits
TPVlcanate (PP)
Oil, Gasoline, Soft grip toll handles, Door Gaskets
Modified Plastics, Inc. uses over 40 years of experience in developing custom compounded and engineering polymers. Modified Plastics meets the most stringent specifications while using high quality materials.
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Since 1989 Color Science Inc., has manufactured and engineered custom dry colorants to match the color and performance needs for many diverse applications. We can produce the highest quality colors in concentrate powder, pre-color and masterbatch resins for medical, aerospace, fluid handling, automotive and other plastic industries.
