Colorants for Packaging

In Colortec, we produce our colorant for packaging with the main purpose of creating innovating and appealing plastic products that are able to capture the final consumer’s attention with a customised colour and additive range. 

We work with differentiating and attractive effects in different types of materials:

• Polypropylene 
• Polyethylene (LDPE, HDPE, LINEAL), 
• PS 
• PET.
• Polyamide (PA)
• Any other plastic material or technical plastic involved in your projects. 

With our colorants for packaging, we intend your packaging to have all guarantees to be placed in the shipping basket of final consumers. 

Our colorants and additives are conceived for different types of packaging:

• Packaging for food
• Industrial packaging.
• Packaging for cosmetics
• Blown packaging
• Any other project related with plastic packaging for the packaging sector.

Essential attributes for colorants for packaging 

We work in our laboratory so your products may have the packaging colorant that adjusts to your needs and projects as much as possible. That is why, we have a wide diversity of pigments and colorants ranges of European quality, which are valid to carry out the most demanding projects in all materials of the sector. 

Our experience working in the plastic packaging sector allowed us to innovate in our formulations to create customised and optimised masterbatch for products and manufacturing processes for plastic packaging. As experts in the sector, the majority of our manufactured products are tailor-made, and we also own a wide diversity of updated references in stock with high turnover. 

When manufacturing our masterbatch, we use the latest available technology for packaging, since our production plant is capable of producing over 1000 annual tons of colorant and additive masterbatch for plastic products. 

We have the proper means to create safe colorants and colour pigments for packaging that may pass the national and international standards of plastics in contact with food. Besides, we guarantee that our masterbatch for plastic does not affect the organoleptic properties of the packaging. 

Materials and colorant for packaging

We manufacture this kind of colorant for the following applications:

• Packaging or plastic packaging solutions for food: plastic packaging solutions for meat products, ice-creams, olives, food for kids, dairy products, honey, fish, pet food, snacks, spices and sauces.

• Industrial packaging: fruit boxes, industrial decanters, plastic barrels, plastic pallets and deposits.

• Packaging for cosmetics: flexible tubes, plastic bottles, caps and other cosmetics packaging solutions.

Colorants for packaging and standards of the sector

Our masterbatch for packaging is in conformity with the following directives and standards: Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste and the Regulation 1907/2006 (REACH).

These standards are governed by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. Besides, Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, both on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, and with the Resolution AP (89) 1 on the use of colorants in plastic materials and the Regulation 1907/2006 (REACH).

We understand the concerns of our customers and look after this aspect with the utmost rigour and care. All our customers are provided with technical and safety data sheets and with the proper documentation corresponding to the product that meets the standard’s criteria.