Color plays an important role in our lives, from blaze orange that draws our attention to products in our favorite colors. Of course, color choices can be made for purely aesthetic reasons, but they can also be used to enhance safety, or to categorize products by size, type, strength, or other categories. The wide variety of plastic resin choices available for injection molding make it an excellent process for producing colored plastic products.
There are as many reasons to color your plastic products as there are colors to choose from. Some common purposes include:
Plastic resin formulations vary in their ability to be colored and the range of colors each type of plastic will accept. Regardless of material selection, methods of coloring plastic for injection molding involve adding specialized dry or liquid colors to plastic pellets, or combining plain and colored plastic pellets to create desired colors. Most commonly, a small percentage of deeply colored pellets are combined with uncolored ones to produce a chosen color.
To achieve the most even, accurate colors:
At Bennett Plastics, we have the expertise to manufacture your products in the colors to meet your specifications. Contact us today to learn more about partnering with us to bring your products to life.
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