Avient Corporation and BASF have joined forces to provide colored grades of Ultrason® high-performance polymers on a global scale. These colored grades incorporate BASF’s Ultrason polyarylethersulfones (PAES) as a high-quality base polymer, combined with Avient’s Colorant Chromatics expertise in high-temperature color formulation for color concentrates and pre-colored solutions.
BASF’s Colored Ultrason In The Global Market
This collaboration offers customers in industries such as household and catering, electrical & electronics (E&E), and healthcare a significant advantage by providing comprehensive technical support from the base polymer to the final-colored product.
By leveraging this partnership, customers will be able to respond swiftly to design trends, meet technical requirements, and adhere to color standards, thus accelerating their time to market.
The complete range of colored Ultrason polymers also contributes to a more sustainable lifestyle by enabling the production of reusable, high-quality household and catering articles. These products own the characteristic feature, that they can be reused by consumers and an endless number of times by caterers, maintaining their performance and design. As a result, they support a circular economy, reducing the use of single-use plastics and minimizing packaging waste associated with conventional catering, take-away, and to-go items.
Anne Hippert, the General Manager of Colorant Chromatics at Avient, emphasizes the market demand for colored, high-performance polymers and the need for quick response times and the ability to supply colored materials in various quantities. The collaboration between Avient and BASF aims to combine the strengths of both companies, with Avient renowned for its specialized color solutions tailored to customers’ final application requirements and BASF recognized for its excellent quality Ultrason and extensive material expertise. Together, they are dedicated to introducing innovative PAES to the market, addressing color challenges across multiple industries, particularly in the household and food sectors where Ultrason is an ideal fit for sustainable applications that prioritize attractive colors and reusability.
Florian Hennenberger, part of global business development Ultrason at BASF, highlights the reputation of Avient’s Colorant Chromatics business as a strong and agile provider of color solutions for specialty polymers, combined with BASF’s position as a leading producer of high-quality Ultrason. The collaboration enables the provision of customized colors using Ultrason as the base material to both existing and new customers.
Avient and BASF have a period in history of collaboration in the field of polyarylethersulfones. By taking their partnership to the next level, they can readily fulfill the demand for orders of various sizes with short lead times, catering to different industries. Avient will formulate and market the colored grades as Colorant Chromatics made with Ultrason by BASF.
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