Colour Tone Masterbatch
Colour Tone Masterbatch Ltd, part of the Luxus Group, are an innovative, multi award winning masterbatch producer.
Established for over 25 years, Colour Tone are recognised as an innovative company with the ability to deliver a responsive, high quality service for bespoke colours, in universal, commodity and engineering polymers, as well as custom additive blends. The company’s masterbatch materials are suitable for use in most plastics processes including injection and blow moulding, profile and sheet extrusion as well as film and fibres.
Colour Tone furthermore have a number of patent protected products which have been developed specifically to address a number of industry challenges, these include Vynacol, a masterbatch developed specifically for colouring PVC and a range of near infra-red reflective black masterbatches which are designed and proven to enable post-consumer recycling sorting, a product which won a Queens Award for Enterprise Innovation in 2022
Our Technical Centre also carefully monitors quality and provides full visibility throughout our business. This allows us to evaluate how compounds are performing during testing and ensures that each batch matches the required specification.
Dowload our technical service guide here.
Equipment
Our Technical Centre also carefully monitors quality and provides full visibility throughout our business. This allows us to evaluate how compounds are performing during testing and ensures that each batch matches the required specification.
Dowload our technical service guide here.
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
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Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
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X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
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UV/Vis/NIR Spectrophotometer
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CIELAB Colour Determination
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Extrusion Compounding
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Injection Moulding
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Melt Flow Index
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Izod Impact Strength
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Charpy Impact Strength
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Tensile Properties
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Flexural Properties
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Heat Deflection Temperature
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Vicat Softening Temperature
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Shore Hardness
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Density
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Bulk Density
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Ash Content (600°C)
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Moisture Content
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Shrinkage
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Accelerated Weathering (QUV)
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Outdoor Weathering
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Scratch Resistance Test
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Flammability
The Luxus Technical Centre is among the most advanced and best equipped in Europe. As such, we can undertake a wide range of testing and analysis including:
Colour Tone Masterbatch
Colour Tone Masterbatch Ltd, part of the Luxus Group, are an innovative, multi award winning masterbatch producer.
Established for over 25 years, Colour Tone are recognised as an innovative company with the ability to deliver a responsive, high quality service for bespoke colours, in universal, commodity and engineering polymers, as well as custom additive blends. The company’s masterbatch materials are suitable for use in most plastics processes including injection and blow moulding, profile and sheet extrusion as well as film and fibres.
Colour Tone furthermore have a number of patent protected products which have been developed specifically to address a number of industry challenges, these include Vynacol, a masterbatch developed specifically for colouring PVC and a range of near infra-red reflective black masterbatches which are designed and proven to enable post-consumer recycling sorting, a product which won a Queens Award for Enterprise Innovation in 2022
