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News Release from: Toolcraft Plastics (Swindon) | Subject: Coloured plastics
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 06 May 2005
Plastics come with colours guaranteed
Toolcraft Plastics can now guarantee colours without clots, even in small batches.
One prime advantage of plastics are their ability to accept colour Prime or secondary colours in any shade from pastel to deep, even luminescent, provide a decorative finish at practically zero cost
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Dec 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Sixteen compartment tray range expands
Added to the range of inexpensive general purpose trays from Toolcraft Plastics (Swindon) is a sixteen compartment 565mm square tray in standard coloured plastics or anti-static material.
Starting with high quality raw materials of homogeneous colour, and using particular premoulding mixing methods Toolcraft Plastics can now guarantee colours without clots, even in small batches.
Benefits of infinite choice however come balanced by production problems of colour matching.
Different component sizes, often with differing wall thicknesses, butting up to parts of the same colour highlight these problems.
Colour clots in transparent parts such as the automotive instrument component would show up any poor colour quality.
For some metallic finishes, techniques for vacuum depositing metals onto a base colour have been developed to give better results, especially for reflective surfaces.
As an initial guide to this jungle, Toolcraft Plastics has an abbreviated analysis of materials on its website.
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