Color Special Effects Technologies 2017

Special effect compounds can increase consumer appeal, provide beneficial features, mimic other materials, and add visual impact to your plastic products!

Our team of color experts understands the many variables that affect the way color is perceived in plastic applications, and can guide you in selecting the color and special effect technology that creates the impact your application requires.

Appearance Effects
Draw attention and enhance the aesthetic appeal of your application with metallic sheen, sparkle, fluorescence, or transparency offered by our Appearance Effect compounds.
Metallic	Pearlescent	Sparkle Mist	Iridescent	Fluorescent
Edge Glow	Transparent

Functional Effects
Our Functional Effect compounds provide both color and functionality for applications that require light control, laser welding or marking, or security technology.
Security	Laser Welding	Light Reflective	Light Diffusion	Infrared
Laser-Markable

Shifting Effects
Shifting Effect compounds can change the appearance of your application using light waves or temperature changes to provide a constantly changing visual aesthetic.
Glow-in-the-Dark	Photochromatic (Indoors)	Photochromatic (Outdoors)	Thermochromatic (Activated)	Thermochromatic (Non-activated)
Chroma Shift

Material Effects
Our Material Effects compounds allow your plastic application to mimic a host of other materials, including wood, stone, marble, camouflage and more!
Wood Grain	Stone/Granite/ Marble	Tortoise Shell	Camouflage	Low Gloss