Masterbatches are essential functional inputs in the polymer industry, enhancing the properties of polymers. Generic masterbatches are versatile, ready-to-use formulations that find applications across a broad spectrum of industries and product types. These masterbatches are designed to provide cost-effective solutions for a wide range of coloration and performance enhancement needs. They are added to the base polymer during the manufacturing process, making them a crucial component in achieving desired product characteristics.
Colour Masterbatches
Generic masterbatches are primarily used for coloration, offering a convenient way to introduce consistent and vibrant colors into plastic and rubber products. This is vital for enhancing the aesthetics of plastic articles. KONSPEC boasts a database of over 20,000 shades to address the coloring needs of plastics, available in various base resins such as PE, PP, PS, and a universal base. These color solutions, offered under the COLOSOL series of masterbatches, include whites, blacks, and a wide range of color effects such as transparent, translucent, opaque, pearlescent, granite, metallic, and fluorescent.
White Masterbatches
White masterbatches are used to impart whiteness and opacity to plastics. Their primary function is to provide uniform and consistent coloration to plastic products. They are commonly employed in applications requiring high whiteness and opacity. Typically, white masterbatches are composed of pigments such as titanium dioxide (TiO₂), often combined with extenders like calcium carbonate or barium sulfate. Careful selection of the appropriate type of titanium dioxide, with optimal particle size distribution and a suitable carrier resin, ensures the final color, brightness, and durability. White masterbatches deliver uniform and vibrant white coloration, which is essential for products with high aesthetic demands. They provide excellent opacity, effectively masking the underlying color. These masterbatches are available in neutral, blue-tint, violet-tone, and extra-high-brightness grades to meet industry requirements. Titanium loading levels range from 10% to 75% to suit specific applications. The range also includes non-yellowing grades for outdoor applications and non-lacing grades for flexible packaging.
Black Masterbatches
Black masterbatches ensure uniform and rich black coloration in plastic products, which is critical for applications where aesthetics are a priority. They are available with active carbon black loadings ranging from 20% to 60%, depending on the specific application. These masterbatches come in variants such as high jetness, high gloss, and blue or brown undertones. The range also includes UV-resistant grades for outdoor applications requiring extended service life.
COLOSOL
The “COLOSOL” line of generic colour masterbatch solutions offers a comprehensive selection of over 20,000 colour shades from our library, catering to the diverse and precise colouration needs of our clientele. These synchronous and harmonized colour schemes are tailored for a wide range of plastics processing applications, including extrusion, injection moulding, blow moulding, rotational moulding, and thermoforming processes.
Salient Features
- Batch-to-batch colour consistency with Delta E < 1
- Excellent dispersion
- Low filter pressure values
- Bright and glossy shades
- Good heat and light stability
- Lower let-down ratio
- Most economical colouring cost per kilogram
- Suitable for recycled plastics
Product Range
Colours
- Organic and inorganic-based
- Transparent / Translucent
- Opaque / Pastel
- Pearlescent / Dual-effect
- Metallic shades
- Fluorescent
- Glow-in-the-dark
- Granite / Marble effect
Whites
- Titanium dioxide loading up to 75%
- Neutral tones
- Blue tones, violet tones, extra blue tones
- Extra brightness grades
- Weather-resistant grades
- Non-lacing grades
Blacks
- Carbon black loading up to 55%
- High jetness grades
- Bluish and brownish tones
- Superior and moderate UV-resistant grades
- Low toluene extract grades
Applications
- Flexible and rigid packaging
- Household goods
- Agricultural pipes
- Mulch films
- Water tanks
- Drums and barrels
- Woven sacks
- Garbage bags
- Grow bags
- Tarpaulins
- Monofilaments
- Multifilaments
- Shade nets
- Leno bags
- Sutli, twines, and ropes
- Box strapping
- PP mats
- Containers
- Hangers
- Poultry items
- Extruded hoses
- Cans
- And many more
PERSOL
KONSPEC offers an extensive array of polymer performance enhancement solutions under the “PERSOL” series of functional additive masterbatches. These solutions are meticulously crafted to meet demanding functional product specifications, complex processing requirements, and rigorous performance conditions.
KONSPEC customizes its functional additive masterbatch solutions through in-depth collaboration with customers, ensuring a thorough understanding of their product specifications, compliance needs, processing conditions, performance expectations, and environmental considerations.
Salient Features
- Wide range of masterbatches based on functional additives
- Extensive database covering functional product requirements, regulatory compliance, and process complexities
- Deep expertise in interactive chemistry
- Strong understanding of customer processes
- 36 years of experience in the plastic processing industry, spanning extrusion, injection moulding, rotational moulding, and thermoforming
- 36 years of collaboration with customers to deliver functional additive masterbatch solutions for highly demanding products, global and local regulatory compliance, complex processing conditions, and challenging operating environments
Product Range
- Antimicrobial
- Anti-static (short-term, medium-term, and long-term)
- Anti-fog
- Anti-scratch
- Antioxidant
- Anti-rodent
- UV stabilizers
- Nucleating / Clarifying agents
- Optical brighteners
- Slip and anti-block
- Laser marking
- Volatile corrosion inhibitor
- Flame retardant masterbatches
- De-duster
- Many more
Applications
- Automotive exterior and interior components
- Non-fade requirements
- Special storage bins for electronic and electrical components
- Hygiene films, food containers, chopping boards, cutlery, sanitary products, and water taps
- Multilayer films, greenhouse films, and shade nets
- Protective packaging for bulk drugs
- Specific UV masterbatches for reactive and non-reactive chemistry in Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (Jumbo Bags)
- Packaging for automotive and industrial components to prevent corrosion
Rotomoulded tanks and stadium furniture - Wire and cables, optical fiber cable (OFC) ducts, and sewage tanks to protect against rodent attacks
PROSOL
The “PROSOL” line of masterbatches and compounds is meticulously designed to optimize the efficiency of various processes. By promoting energy conservation, reducing capital expenditure through enhanced productivity, and subsequently lowering the carbon footprint across the manufacturing continuum, these solutions provide a multifaceted approach to sustainability.
Improved productivity enables rapid transitions in colour and product variations, minimizing machine downtime and material wastage. This operational efficiency enhances Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), fostering a sustainable and environmentally conscious manufacturing process by reducing carbon emissions.
Salient Features
- Facilitates moulding and release of complex parts, enables quick colour changes, and reduces wastage due to low colour contamination and significantly lower shearing effects along complex material flow paths
- Excellent processability for extruded films, fibres, pipes, and profiles by reducing the coefficient of friction, eliminating melt fracture/sharkskin effects, and preserving material integrity
- Eliminates die deposition, ensuring uninterrupted production processes and reduced wastage
- Increases productivity by up to 10%
- Lowers power consumption
- Reduces wastage
- Optimizes productivity
- Enhances Operational Equipment Efficiency (OEE)
- Contributes significantly to sustainable and green manufacturing practices
Product Range
- Polymer processing aids
- Mould release agents
- Purging masterbatches
- Purging compounds
- Cycle time optimizers
- Many more
Applications
- Monolayer / Multilayer films
- Pipes and Profiles
- Caps and Closures
- Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) ducts
- Water Storage Tanks
- Blow-moulded Containers
- Injection-moulded thick articles
- Many more
Mineral Filled Masterbatches
These masterbatches incorporate reinforcing materials such as calcium carbonate and talc to enhance the strength and stiffness of plastics. They are widely used in applications requiring a high strength-to-weight ratio and cost-effectiveness.
The masterbatch series containing calcium carbonate is offered under the “ECOWHITE” range, while those with talc as a key ingredient fall under the “TRANSFILL” range, catering to tapes, films, and moulding applications. The “ALFA” modifier range is designed for applications needing enhanced heat sealing, improved seam strength for woven sack bags, and increased drop strength for drums and barrels.
ECOWHITE
KONSPEC manufactures the “ECOWHITE” range of mineral-filled masterbatches for injection, blow, extrusion, and thermoforming applications, based on polyethylene, polypropylene, and styrenic resins.
Salient Features
- High whiteness and brightness grades
- Excellent dispersion with Filter Pressure Value (FPV) less than 1
- Superior processing capabilities
- Cost reduction
- Supports higher addition levels
- Improved stiffness
- Enhanced tenacity
- Minimal wastage
- High productivity due to low die lip formation
- Improved machine efficiency with reduced mesh choking
- Cleaner production environment due to reduced dust formation
Product Range
- Products with active ingredient content ranging from 78% to 83% loading
- Specific grades for high-speed extrusion plants
- Grades for high-speed extrusion and low-denier applications
- High-flow grades for low-shear machines and high-throughput lines
- Extra-high tenacity grades
- Grades with finely controlled particle sizes (top cut D98 of max 8 microns)
- Specially developed grades for high stretch ratio processes
- Tailored range for monolayer/multilayer films
- High addition levels exceeding 50% for monolayer films
Applications
- Antifibrillation for tapes: suitable for low denier (350) and high-speed plants (up to 600 m/min), with addition levels (AL) up to 50%
- Lamination: speeds up to 250 m/min, 1.6 m width, with AL up to 25%; monolayer films with AL up to 60%
- Multilayer films
- Cast films with AL up to 40%
- Injection moulding (depending on component design and end application)
- Blow-moulded containers: monolayer / multilayer with AL up to 10%
- Thermoformed sheets with AL up to 25%
- Box strapping with AL up to 50%
*AL – Addition Level
TRANSFILL
KONSPEC manufactures an extensive range of “TRANSFILL” masterbatches tailored for injection, blow, extrusion, and thermoforming applications, delivering transparent and translucent solutions based on polyethylene, polypropylene, and styrenic resins.
Salient Features
- High and medium brightness grades
- Excellent dispersion
- Cost reduction
- Supports higher addition levels
- Enhanced stiffness
- Improved surface gloss
- Superior dimensional stability
Product Range
- High brightness grades with up to 80% solids on PE
- Improved flow grades for lamination applications
- High-flow grades for PP injection moulding
- Products with high aspect ratio for superior flexural modulus and nucleation effect in PP / PET polymers for thermoformed sheets
- PP-based moulding grades for a wide range of applications
- Auto components
- Battery containers
- Electrical components
- Many more
Applications
- Monolayer films with Addition Levels (AL) up to 30%
- Tapes with AL up to 10%
- Thermoformed / extruded sheets with AL up to 15%
- Lamination with AL up to 5%
- Box strapping with AL up to 10%
- Sutli/twines/ropes with AL up to 20%
- Injection moulded containers (depending on component design and end application) with AL up to 5%
- Blow-moulded containers (monolayer / multilayer) with AL up to 10%
- Many more
ALPHA Modifier
The “ALPHA” modifier range of solutions is designed to meet specific application needs, such as enhancing heat sealing, improving seam strength in woven sack bags, and increasing drop strength for drums and barrels.
ALPHA Modifier
“ALPHA” opaque modifiers are specialized materials that enhance the properties of various products by incorporating unique ingredients across multiple applications. The use of modifier masterbatches provides manufacturers with the flexibility to tailor polyolefin properties to meet specific requirements, offering a cost-effective and efficient approach that enhances the versatility of polyolefin-based products.
Monolayer Films
- Enables higher filler loadings in films, resulting in cost savings
- Improves the saleability of monolayer films used in carry bags and grocery bags
- Increases dart impact strength
Tapes Used for Woven Fabrics
- Enhances seam strength in woven sacks, improving structural integrity, reducing the risk of ruptures or tears, and ensuring reliable containment of goods during transportation and storage
- Reduces powder formation, minimizing waste and improving the overall quality of produced tapes
Injection/Blow Moulding
- Balances mechanical strength and stiffness in end products, ensuring durability and structural integrity where critical
- Incorporates affordable minerals, making it an economical choice
- Improves impact resistance, enhancing durability and preventing breakage, ideal for reliable packaging and transportation
- Enhances Environmental Stress Crack Resistance (ESCR), ensuring blow-moulded containers resist cracking or failure under environmental stressors, contributing to longevity and reliability
ALPHA Transparent Modifiers
The transparency of polymers is essential for accurate colour rendering, allowing the true colour to shine through and ensuring the desired aesthetic and quality in coloured plastic products. Incorporating transparent modifiers into polymers minimizes the impact on the base polymer’s transparency while improving specific mechanical properties such as elongation, drop strength, and impact resistance.
Salient Features
- Aesthetics: Minimally affects the colouristic properties of the base polymer in polyolefin applications
- Improved Stackability: Optimizes storage space and logistical efficiency, facilitating easy handling, transport, and organization of goods
- Balanced Stiffness and Drop Strength: Ensures structural integrity, enabling containers to withstand static loads during storage and dynamic forces during handling and transportation
- Dimensional Stability: Maintains the shape and size of plastic containers, ensuring proper fit, ease of handling, and compatibility with automated production processes