Friday, July 31, 2015

"salt and pepper" color blending at APS Elastomers

blue "salt and pepper" TPU color blend

blue "salt and pepper" TPU color blend

blue "salt and pepper" TPU color blend

Thursday, July 16, 2015

APS Elastomers Now Offers Custom Color Blends



APS Elastomers now offers “Salt and Pepper” custom color matching and blending for thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV); assisting their customers with a broad range of color concentrate that are FDA, RoHS, CONEG, and NSF compliant and heavy-metal free. “Simply provide the Pantone number or a color chip and we can blend into the raw material the color concentrate to match”, says Stephane Morin, owner of APS Elastomers.

Available in natural pellets, APS Elastomers’ Zythane® TPUs and Viprene® TPVs offer superb colorability. “Good colorability allows OEMs and processors to manufacture their end product in a variety of bold colors” adds Morin.   In addition to good colorability, they are fatigue resistant, dimensionally stable and offer very low compression set, heat aging stability, low temperature flexibility, and excellent U.V., and ozone stability. They can be processed using conventional injection molding and extrusion equipment.

Zythane TPU Sample Plaques
 APS Elastomers is committed to providing in-depth and high level customer and technical service, problem-solving, product development and support to designers, OEMs and processors; building relationships based on knowledge, trust and experience. APS Elastomers also provides beside-the-press consulting, full laboratory services and expedited shipment.

For more information on TPVs TPEs, TPUs, as well as standard and custom grades, contact: APS Elastomers at info@apstpe.com

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Monday, July 13, 2015

A weekly look at new products, innovations

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