Colorant Comparison Chart

	PennaclePET	Liquid Color	Wax-Based Carrier	Bottle Grade PET Carrier
Ease of Use	Excellent Used directly from the drum to the feeder	Poor Major effort needed to avoid spills and other mishaps	Good Potential for premature melting in feeder	Fair Normally needs to be pre-dried before use
Physical Properties of Final Part	Great Negligable loss in IV at any LDR	Fair Loss of IV and potential for delamination increases at higher LDR's	Fair Loss of IV and potential for delamination increases at higher LDR's	Fair IV retention decreases at higher LDR's
Shelf Life	Excellent Unlimited	Poor Drums need to be re-agitated after a few months	Excellent Unlimited	Excellent Unlimited
Pellet Quality	Excellent Very uniform and consistent pellets	N/A	Poor to Good Prills are good, flakes are poor	Fair "Longs" and "doubles" are very common
Processing Characteristics	Excellent No unusual processing issues	Fair Tendency for screw slippage, especially at high LDR's	Fair Tendency for scre slippage, especially at high LDR's	Good Processes well, but pellet inconsistency can cause color variation in final product