Bayer MaterialScience Adds Design Center to Color Competence Center at Newark, Ohio, Compounding Facility

11-Jun-2007

Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) LLC officially opened a Design Center addition to the Color Competence Center at its Newark, Ohio, compounding plant. According to the company, BMS' new Design Center at its Color Competence Center is good news for the Newark community and the plastics industry.

"The Newark facility has played an important role in our plastics business for nearly 30 years," said Dr. Lora Rand, head of production and development. "This investment will help ensure that our operations here will continue to play an instrumental role in our business success for many years to come."

The new Design Center shall bring ideas utilizing BMS' LEDA® compounded color technology to life. LEDA compounded resin technology is one of five technologies included in Fantasia® color technologies - a solution for color and special effects for plastic part design. LEDA compounded color technology adds colorants and special effect additives right in the pellet to yield molded-in colors and special effects such as metallic, sparkle, shimmer, pearlescence and glow-in-the-dark.

The Newark, Ohio, Color Competence Center is joining a global network of similar centers - either in use, construction or planning - in Filago, Italy; New Delhi, India; Shanghai and Guangzhou, China; and Map Ta Phut, Thailand. These centers bring the organization's considerable technology, innovation and service closer to its customers in order to provide them with fast, local service.

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