. . . some common problems

"During normal bottle production, the hose coming from my peristaltic pump ruptured (again), leaving another permanent stain on my molding machine."
Injection Mold Manager – Chicago, IL

"A new target customer called us in an emergency, asking if we could fill an order of colored bottles for them. We happened to have the liquid color concentrate in stock, so we committed to their tight delivery date. When we pulled the color the following night, it had completely settled out and was unusable because it had sat in our warehouse for too long. Not only did we foul up our production schedule, we have the embarrassing task of explaining to our customer why they won’t get their order on time."
Production Scheduler – Boston, MA

"We were training a new forklift operator, and wouldn’t you know that on his 3rd day, he pierced a drum of liquid color with the fork on the truck. We lost the entire contents of the drum, and 6 manhours for the cleanup."
Warehouse Manager – Cleveland, OH

"Our new accounting manager was all over me the other day, claiming that our standard accounting costs are off for a major customer that buys many different colored bottles from us. After I looked into it, we realized that we can’t get all of the liquid color out of the drum, and were throwing good money away."
Materials Manager – Salt Lake City, UT

"Get maintenance ready, we have another big job scheduled tomorrow that will run for 2 days with the same liquid color. It’s a sure bet that half way through the job, we’ll encounter screw slippage, and we’ll have to shut down & clean the screw."
Plant Manager – Reynosa, Mexico

. . . benefits of PennaclePET

• Clean, small, uniform pellets

• High loadings of pigments, pearlescents, and metallics

• No messy spills to clean

• No pumps or tubes to maintain

• Fast color changeover

• No screw slippage caused by liquid coating the screw

• No delamination or significant loss in IV retention due to the incompatibility of carrier resin and base resin

• No drum disposal worries

• No unusable residual color left in the drum

• Unlimited shelf life

• Able to be fed accurately at ratios as low as .01%

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.