Plastics Color Corporation Launches an Additive Masterbatch with Rohm and Haas' Paraloid(TM) BPM-500: The Innovative "Clear Solution" to Strengthening Bioplastics

Plastics Color Corporation Launches an Additive Masterbatch with Rohm and Haas' Paraloid(TM) BPM-500: The Innovative "Clear Solution" to Strengthening Bioplastics

August 08, 2007

    CALUMET CITY, Ill., Aug. 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Joe
Byrne, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Plastics
Color Corporation (PCC) is delighted to announce that in
addition to PCC's available line of colorant and additive
masterbatches for polylactic acid (PLA), the company now
offers an innovative line of masterbatch additive using a
new impact modifier from Rohm and Haas - Paraloid-BPM
500(TM). 
 
    Polylactic acid, a bioplastic polymer derived from
renewable resources such as corn, has been welcomed by the
packaging industry to reduce dependence on petro-chemical
based plastics. This move toward PLA-based packaging has
now been enhanced by the introduction of Paraloid-BPM 500.
While there had been attempts to strengthen PLA with impact
modifiers in the past, they were unsuccessful in producing
an acceptable level of transparency. 

    Now Paraloid-BPM 500 broadens the usability of
bioplastics by making them stronger without losing the
desirable clarity so important in packaging. With it,
Plastics Color Corporation has produced a masterbatch with
the added benefit of being easily incorporated into the
current delivery systems of manufacturing processes.

    In addition to the benefit of improving impact and tear
resistance of PLA without sacrificing clarity, the Paraloid
BPM-500 masterbatch also complies with food contact
requirements in Europe and with room temperature food
contact requirements in the United States.

    "Plastics Color Corporation has been involved in
the development of PLA colorant and additive masterbatches
for several years now," said Joe Byrne, Plastics Color
Corporation's VP of Sales and Marketing. "This is one
of the most exciting offerings we have rolled out to date.
Working with Rohm and Haas to develop the Paraloid BPM-500
masterbatch over the last several months has been a
wonderful experience. We are very proud of the end
result."

    About Plastics Color Corporation 

    Plastics Color Corporation is committed to the Pyramid
of Partnership - an innovative and interactive environment
of customers, vendors, and associates sharing the latest
information and technology while continually improving as a
global presence and a leader in the plastics, colorants and
specialty compound business. http://www.plasticscolor.com 




    For more information, please contact:

     Joe Byrne
     Plastics Color Corporation
     Tel:   [phone]