PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2015

LABELLING 19 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 07+08/15 www.petpla.net COLOURING /ADDITIVE 19 Tailor-made colour concentrates Holland Colours NV was founded in 1979 and has been listed on the NYSE Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange since 1989. Together with a worldwide network of agencies Holland Colours is a global player serving more than 2000 customers in 80 countries. Holland Colours’ headquar- ters are established in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands and has nine owned establishments in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Approximately 400 employees worldwide are working for Holland Colours. All our employees are shareholders in the company. For more than 35 years, Holland Colours is providing colour concentrates for the global packaging market. This started in the early nineties and has been continued ever since. The colours are tailor made for the customers and may range from light blue for colouring of water bottles, green or amber for beer bottles and special effect colours for cosmetics. Besides the continuous improvement of the solid colour concentrates. Holland Colours launched a new series of liquid colourants, HolcoPET. This generation said to provide improved process- ing regarding slip, retention of mechanical properties and colour distribution. The product has been launched at several key customers and is now available primarily for the European and Asian market. Next to colourants, Holland Col- ours is also investing in development of additives for PET packaging. One new development is a slip agent for PET, focussing on reducing the coefficient of friction (COF) during preform production. Lowering of the COF results in an easier release of the preforms from the cavities, scratch-free preforms due to less friction and drop marks from falling preforms into the octabin. Ten per- cent more preforms can be stored into an octabin, reducing storage and transportation costs. The slip additive can also be used at a con- siderably lower dosing level, up to 50% lower, to reach the same effect as competitive solutions. The launch of this product is scheduled at the Petnology in Nuremberg, Germany later this year. However, this slip additive is already available upon request for testing at customers. Products for UV and oxygen barriers or a combination thereof are continuously being devel- oped to reach customer specific demands. This is supported with in house testing capabilities like oxygen barrier testing on bottles, with analytical equipment like the FT-IR microscope, scanning elec- tron microscope (SEM) and with small scale injection moulding of preforms and blowing of bottles. www.hollandcolours.com The plastic closure company committed to your success BERI CAP Technology Research and Development Mould Technology | Global Presence Capping Technology and Know-How Innovation and Flexibility www.bericap.com PET additives