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A leading supplier of industrial color standards has introduced a new dedicated standard palette for the plastics industry, with this being exhibited for the first time at this fall's K show at the stand of one of the leading colorant masterbatch suppliers.

August 20, 2010

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A leading supplier of industrial color standards has introduced a new dedicated standard palette for the plastics industry, with this being exhibited for the first time at this fall's K show at the stand of one of the leading colorant masterbatch suppliers.

RAL, the industrial color standard supplier, will exhibit its new dedicated color standard for plastics at the K 2010 on the stand (5/B48) of Gabriel-Chemie Group, its partner in the technical implementation of the new standard.

For starters, RAL Plastics will include the 100 most frequently requested colors from the RAL Classis color collection, which it says is the most popular range in the industry. This color scale will then be gradually extended to around 200 shades over the coming years as demand dictates. The company's color palette encompasses a total of 2328 different shades.

For processors, the major benefit of the new plastics standard is that it eliminates the need to reproduce RAL paint sample colors in plastic. The plastics samples in the RAL Plastics collection consist of 3-mm thick polypropylene pieces measuring 105 x 148 mm—an A6 format. As well as the smooth main area on each piece, there are two other patches with varied surface textures, and two strips of different material thicknesses—2 mm and 1 mm—so each strip gives a processor a realistic impression of how the colors work with different material applications. Each color in the collection comes with absolute values and a reflectance curve.

The complete set will be available to order from the online shop at www.ral-colours.de at the end of October, during the K. —Stephen Moore

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