Patented G2 pelletized colorant from Carolina Color ensures well-dispersed color while dramatically reducing costs in cap and closures applications.
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The Challenge: Maintain Quality of Color At a Reduced Cost
Molding caps and closures to meet customers' demands is challenging, most days. Then, add the challenge of having a major brand's customer demand that the color of the product must be an exact match every time. Continually meeting such exacting brand retail shelf expectations is nearly impossible. For example, one closure manufacturer for large brands needed to lower overall cost while still maintaining a consistent color for every part. After exploring several options, the manufacturer selected G2 from Carolina Color.
The Solution: G2 From Carolina Color Corporation---providing the highest pigment loaded custom colors available.
In 2008, Carolina Color patented G2, a revolutionary new product in which pigments and additives are highly loaded, exceptionally well dispersed, and effectively distributed in both large and small parts. The qualities of this next-generation product enables manufacturing possibilities that save time, space, and money. Most packaging manufacturers see up to 30% cost-to-color reduction, along with letdown rates matching or exceeding liquid colors.
The Results: Lower Cost and Improved Color Distribution
When the manufacturer started to incorporate G2 into their molding operations they were able to lower the cost on some critical closure products for major brands and while continuing to produce parts that match those on the shelf every time. Here are a few benefits the closure manufacturer was able to quickly see after making the switch to G2.
On a red peanut butter closure application:
- Lowered use rate from 4% to 0.65%.
- Generated approximate savings of $100,000 annually
- Improved color distribution even with the substantially lower use rate
On a stock blue color used across various applications:
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- Lowered use rate from 5% to 2.2%.
- Estimated cost savings of 10 to 15%.
On a protein powder supplement green closure application:
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- Lowered the use rate from 4.5% to 2.2%.
- Improved color distribution on a translucent lid (even with the process improvements noted below).
- Enabled the customer to eliminate the use of a special mixing nozzle that had been required to achieve acceptable quality using the incumbent color.
- Enabled the customer to run the part under normal processing parameters as opposed to the special adjustments that had been required on the incumbent color.
Success!
In all of the previously discussed cases, Carolina Color Corporation was able to lower the use rate, as well as offering other substantial benefits.
About Carolina Color:
Carolina Color’s G2 product line has proven performance in diverse applications, including outdoor durables, packaging, industrial, non-automotive transportation, and much more. Convertors are impressed by this game-changing technology. Whether it is injection, extrusion, rotational, structural foam, blow, sheet, pipe, or profile molding, G2 consistently hits the mark.
Carolina Color Corporation---a successful, family-owned company since 1967---serves colorant needs from ISO 9001:2008 certified locations in North Carolina and Ohio.
For more information about G2 visit: www.carolinacolor.com.