Thermoplastic Compounds and Additives

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) is a global leader offering a comprehensive array of specialized polymer materials, tailored services and end-to-end solutions.  We have:

• More than 10,000 customers in 35 countries
• More than 35,000 products
• 51 manufacturing facilities and 13 warehouses in 20 countries
• Operations in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia
• Joint ventures in North America and South America
• Corporate headquarters in northeast Ohio (U.S.A.)
• Annual revenues of $2.7 billion

From Soup to Nuts - PolyOne knows Packaging

PolyOne provides the packaging industry with an unsurpassed offering of thermoplastic compounds and additives.  Our solutions enhance processing and end-use performance to meet the exact needs of your packaging application.

Colorants & Special Effect Concentrates: Our masterbatch solutions include an array of additive materials that enhance the performance of thermoplastic parts, improve manufacturing efficiency, reduce manufacturing downtime and enable smooth product transitions – available in a variety of physical forms for different manufacturing processes, including pellets, flakes, beads, powders and liquids.

Our color services include color design centers, color-use audits, and specialized color matching services.  We also offer an OnColor™ Color Selector tool to help you simplify your color evaluation and selection process.  To learn more about our color mixing services, please contact us using the following regional directory. 

Bio-Compatible Colorants and Additives: PolyOne offers a range of standard and customizable masterbatch solutions for use with biodegradable resins, such as polylactide (PLA), polyhydroxybutyrate-valerate copolymer (PHBV), polybutylene succinate (PBS), polybutylene adipate-co-terephthalate (PBAT) and starch blends. Our materials meet global industry and composting standards, enabling customers to manufacture products with low environmental impact.

Performance enhancers such as UV Inhibitors, Oxygen Scavengers and Process Aids

Color & Additive Concentrates: Our masterbatch solutions include an array of additive materials that enhance the performance of thermoplastic parts, improve manufacturing efficiency, reduce manufacturing downtime and enable smooth product transitions – available in a variety of physical forms for different manufacturing processes, including pellets, flakes, beads, powders and liquids.

Our color services include color design centers, color-use audits, and specialized color matching services.  We also offer an OnColor™ Color Selector tool to help you simplify your color evaluation and selection process. To learn more about our color mixing services, please contact us using the following regional directory. 

FDA Compliant Can Coating Resins

Vinyl Dispersion, Blending & Specialty Resins: Dispersion, blending, powder-coating, and specialized suspension vinyl resins are used for formulating plastisols, powders and compounds for applications such as resilient flooring, artificial leather, can coatings, toys, and flexible gasketing and tubing. Vinyl chloride homopolymer and copolymer (vinyl chloride/vinyl ester) resins are fine white powders that can be easily dispersed in plasticizers and solvents.

Vinyl Compounds for Demanding Packaging Applications

Geon™ Vinyl Rigid Molding Compounds: As North America’s leading vinyl compound producer and a worldwide leader in vinyl technology, PolyOne offers the most complete line of rigid vinyl molding compounds in the industry. Geon™ Vinyl rigid molding compounds meet customer specifications and deliver proven performance and value.  Industries served include appliance, building and construction, and electrical and electronic.

Interior Compounds: Geon interior compounds meet the properties needed for general-purpose, indoor, UV-stable, normal impact or superior impact uses and are commonly used in industries requiring fire resistance, such as appliance, and electrical and electronics. 

Transparent Compounds: Geon transparent compounds are fire, chemical and impact resistant. The balance of properties provided allow for replacement of costly glass, polycarbonate or acrylic in applications such as battery jars, soap and tissue dispensers, and refrigerator crisper trays.

Exterior Compounds: Geon exterior compounds are UV stable and can withstand extreme weather conditions with good color and impact retention over time. They require less maintenance than wood or metal.

Distribution of Olefinic, Polyester and Other Packaging Compounds

PolyOne Distribution: PolyOne Distribution is a premier supplier of thermoplastic resins and compounds developed by the industries leading manufacturers from around the globe. 

We offer performance versatility, including compounded polyolefins, vinyls, thermoplastic elastomers and engineered materials.

Choose PolyOne as your one-stop source for a broad spectrum of color and additive technologies designed for the packaging industry.

Our programs and services include:

• Global supply position
• Application development
• Processor technical service
• Color management services
• Agency approvals
• Polymer distribution
• Custom compounding and services
• Polymer diagnostics

Colors and Additives

Delivering Low-Cost, High-Value Color and Additive Solutions

PolyOne’s Color & Additives Masterbatches Group is a one-stop source of colorants, color and additive systems, additive products and color technology and support services. Our customers benefit from:

• Our corporate-wide commitment to being a low-cost, high-value provider.
• A dedicated business unit focused on serving the color and additives markets.
• Total capabilities, with three clearly defined product families: OnColor,™ OnCap™ and OnCall
• Responsive local service and global reach – wherever our customers do business.
• Expertise in a wide variety of industrial and consumer markets and end-use applications.

Local Service, Global Reach: We offer a unique combination of local service and global capabilities in color and additives manufacturing, technology and support. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and color design centers are strategically located throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and our customer service and sales offices reach around the world. We are closely aligned with you, our customer, which enables us to anticipate and meet your needs for timely, personalized service.

Markets and Applications: Our experience covers a broad range of markets and end-use applications:

• Consumer and industrial packaging
• Vinyl siding, decking, fencing
• Food and beverage containers
• Wire and cable
• Medical packaging
• Pipes and fittings
• Automotive interiors and exteriors
• Film
• Toys
• House wares
• Electronics
• Sporting goods
• Custom profile and sheet extrusion
• Custom molded parts

Three Product Families

OnColor™ Colorants and Color and Additive Systems

The OnColor™ product family features a wide variety of catalog and custom colorants, special effects, and color and additive systems for thermoplastic applications. PolyOne’s Color and Additives Masterbatches Group consistently produces high-quality color masterbatches that can be manufactured and delivered around the world. Our color solutions create a distinctive appearance for your specific application, and our extensive color-matching capabilities help you bring your product to market quickly.

• Catalog Colorants: The OnColor product family includes more than 100 standard color masterbatches in black, white and all primary hues. Compatible with most resins, these colorants are available in a range of shades as well as with pearlescent and metallic special effects.
• Portfolio Colorants: In addition to our catalog colors, you can also choose from a database of millions of synthesized color formulations. These electronically stored formulas enable PolyOne’s color-matching experts to scientifically choose the best match for your particular polymer and end use application.
• Custom Colorants: When you need a distinct color for your unique product or part, PolyOne delivers. Our scientists can quickly turn around accurate color matches from our five centrally coordinated color matching facilities.

Special Effects: Special effects enhance the appearance of your product. The OnColor product family offers a wide variety of these effects for thermoplastic applications, including:

• Marble
• Camouflage
• Granite
• Frost
• Pearl
• Metal
• Soft touch
• Wood grain
• Fluorescent
• Thermochromic
• Photochromic

SmartBatch™ Concentrates: We have the distinct ability to combine our colorants and additives expertise into one concentrate for an integrated solution that reduces material handling requirements. SmartBatch™ concentrates offer customers an economic and efficient alternative to separate color masterbatches and additive products.

Meeting Your Process and Product Needs

OnColor™ colorants and masterbatches are available in a variety of forms to meet your exact application and processing needs, including:

• Pellets
• Beads
• Flakes
• Powders
• Liquids

OnColor colorants are available in concentrates made using FDA compliant raw materials. We can also provide heavy metal colorants when needed.

Rapid Color Matching Capability: PolyOne is a leader in efficient and accurate color matches. The industry expertise of our color matching scientists combined with our advanced electronic technology results in quick color matches for your specific resin, manufacturing process and end-use application. Customer benefits that lead to increased productivity include:

• Reduced lead times
• Increased accuracy
• Streamlined selection of colorants
• Increased reproducibility

Markets and Applications: Our OnColor colorants and color and additive systems are used in a wide variety of industrial and consumer markets and end-use applications, including:

• Automotive
• Packaging
• Custom molding
• Wire and cable
• Film and sheet
• Profile extrusion
• Pipes and fittings

Thermoplastic Additive Products

OnCap™ Additive Products

The OnCap™ thermoplastic additive product family from PolyOne’s Color and Additives Masterbatches Group features a wide range of performance, process and purge additives.

Performance Additive Masterbatches

• Slips: Reduces friction between parts and also functions as a processing additive.
• Antiblocks: Alters the surface of your part to prevent blocking and allow free movement.
• UV protection: Inhibitors and absorbers protect your parts from ultraviolet light.
• Antioxidants: Increase heat stability during processing and aging, and extend the life of your plastic product.
• Antistats: Permanent, slow-acting or fast-acting masterbatches are ideal for preventing dust from collecting on electronics, packaging and anti-cling film applications.
• Antifogging agents: Reduce moisture droplet formation on product surfaces.
• Blowing/Foaming agents: Reduce weight or density of plastics, assist in dimensional stability and/or create a distinctive appearance.
• Antimicrobials: Inhibit the growth of fungus, mold and microorganisms such as bacteria.
• Scratch and mar reducers: Enhance end-product durability and reduce susceptibility to surface defects.

Processing Additive Masterbatches

• Processing aids, slips and lubricants: Reduce friction and increase manufacturing speed.
• Release agents: Move products efficiently and reliably through your processing machines, and release end products from their molds.
• Nucleating agents: Help control the “cure” rate of your products.
• Mold fill enhancers: Help eliminate sink and wall thinning in parts.
• Cycle time reducers: Establish profiles to reduce the total cycle time of each part produced.

Purge Products

• Multi-Purge® concentrates: Clean injection molding tooling during a color change without breaking the cycle and with no waste in materials.
• OxyPurge® compounds: Clean out minor carbon buildup during shutdown for PVC blow molding extruders.
• Clear OxyPurge® compounds: Enable quick and low-cost shutdown and startup of equipment due to tooling changes or maintenance for PVC applications.

The OnCap™ product family includes a wide variety of additive products that enhance the performance of thermoplastic parts, improve manufacturing efficiency, and reduce manufacturing downtime and enable smooth product transitions.To meet the exact end-use application and processing needs of our customers, OnCap products are available in a variety of formulations and physical forms. We offer standard, off-the-shelf products and can customize additives for a specific industrial or consumer application. We also offer single-component formulas that improve one area of performance or the manufacturing process, and multi-component formulas that combine two or more performance and process additives in one masterbatch.

OnCap additive products are available in a variety of physical forms depending on your manufacturing process, including:

• Pellets
• Flakes
• Compressed pellets
• Powders
• Beads
• Liquids

Our market and end-use applications range from packaging, such as consumer beverage bottles to film, to automotive interiors and exteriors. Customers also benefit from our direct compounding expertise with a variety of polymers such as engineered materials, vinyl compounds and thermoplastic elastomers.

OnCall Technology and Support Services

Strengthen your customer relationships and improve efficiency and profitability throughout your operations with our technology and support services, comprised of:

• Color use audits
• Physical testing
• Color design centers
• e-Commerce systems
• Rapid response delivery
• Specialized color matching services
• Toll compounding
• Virtual color technology