. . . some common problems

"We feed our color with volumetric feeders and continue to get bottle-to-bottle color variation because the size of my color pellets is all over the board. My supplier says that PET colors are hard to process for them and that their hands are tied when it comes to controlling pellet size."
Process Engineer – Phoenix, AZ

"Can you believe that our largest customer is specifying a color concentrate that the supplier says must be pre-dried before we can use it? Now I'm going to have to go out and buy a dryer just so we can make those bottles."
Director of Purchasing – Newark, NJ

"What am I going to do with all these bottles now? Our customer just rejected the entire shipment because they failed their drop test. The PET carrier resin in the colorant has caused the IV of the bottle to fall below its acceptable level."
Quality Assurance Manager – Houston, TX

"I just spent half a shift cleaning semi-molten color concentrate out the throat of my injection molder. I've now come to learn that I need to either buy auxiliary cooling equipment or pay to have the colorant recrystalized."
Plant Manager – Toronto, Ontario

. . . benefits of PennaclePET

• Small, uniform pellets – no oversized or irregular particles

• Can be used right out of the drum with no pre-drying needed.

• In closed loop systems where there is no option but to pass the colorant through a drying stage, Pennacle®PET pellets will not soften prematurely, and all physical properties of the colorants will be unaffected

• No significant loss in IV retention to the bottle, even when using high let down ratio colors

• Much higher pigment loadings than conventional PET concentrates mean lower usage rates and lower coloring costs

• No need to recrystalize the colorant before processing

Pennacle®PET colorants offer solutions to many of the above problems. The Colorant Comparison Chart offers more details. For more information contact us, or send for a brochure.