Coloring Recycled Plastics with Consistent Quality (ReColour Plus™)
Achieve consistent colour and reliable product performance when transitioning from virgin to recycled plastics.
ReColour Plus™ enables industrial applications to meet both visual and performance requirements — even with variable recycled feedstock.
Challenges when colouring recycled plastics
Recycled plastics often show significant variation in appearance and performance:
- Base colour varies between batches
- Degradation affects colour tone and consistency
- Visual defects and uneven pigmentation
- Processing behaviour impacts final appearance
This makes it difficult to meet product specifications, especially in demanding applications.
ReColour Plus™ – Making recycled plastics work
ReColour Plus™ is a masterbatch concept that enables the replacement of virgin plastics with recycled materials while maintaining required colour, quality, and performance.
It combines Nexam Chemical’s core competencies in:
- Chemistry
- Polymer modification
- Compounding
- Colour formulation
This upgrades recycled plastics to a level suitable for industrial manufacturing.
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Key benefits
- Enables transition from virgin to recycled plastics
- Maintains consistent colour despite variable feedstock
- Supports stable processing and repeatable results
- Reduces visual defects and colour variation
- Maintains product quality while reducing CO₂ footprint
Customized masterbatch solutions
Each ReColour Plus™ solution is tailored to the material, process, and application requirements.
Built on
- Material upgrading technologies — improving performance of degraded recycled polymers
- Advanced colour formulation — matching target shades on difficult base materials
- Additive packages — improving resistance throughout product lifetime
- Processing optimization — adapting flow behaviour and shrinkage
- Performance modifiers — tuning stiffness, impact strength, and durability
Applicable across multiple processes
ReColour Plus™ works with standard processing equipment and enables use of recycled materials in:
- Injection moulding
- Blow moulding
- Extrusion (pipes, sheets, profiles)
- Rotational moulding
Example applications
- Blow moulded containers and bottles
- Injection moulded technical components
- Pipes and construction products
- Packaging applications
- Industrial and consumer goods
Enable circular use of plastics
ReColour Plus™ supports increased use of recycled plastics by ensuring both appearance and performance meet application requirements.
- Reduces reliance on virgin materials
- Enables higher recycled content
- Supports reduction of CO₂ emissions