These advanced technologies, including soft-touch materials as well as colorants and special effects, enable customers to design new features that boost consumer appeal and reduce manufacturing complexity. Recently, PolyOne introduced Geon™ VBX vinyl powder formulations based on innovative technologies that offer maximum design freedom and efficient production of soft-touch surfaces. Additional featured solutions that provide design freedom and manufacturing improvements include:

Enhanced product design flexibility The ability to modify and adjust the tactile feel of the material enables designers to dial in the force required to open / close dispensing valves consistently through the life of the product. This first-of-its-kind innovation allows designers to add the tactile feel and aesthetics of TPEs to HDPE containers and packaging while keeping costs down and supporting environmental goals.

Over the years, as GLS™ has worked with customers to perfect their thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) applications, we've developed a range of concepts and procedures that can help improve and optimize designs. Designing Molds for Styrenic Block Copolymers (SBC) For best results manufacturers should understand the material’s processing benefits and limitations before designing a mold. 

PolyOne Designs LED Lighting Innovations with Flame Retardant Polymer Solutions ANAHEIM, Calif. – February 6, 2018 – At Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) West this week, PolyOne is highlighting its extensive portfoli ANAHEIM, Calif. – February 6, 2018 – PolyOne announced today at Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) West that its COMPTEK™ range of high

With our wide range of material solutions, we will work with you to find the right balance between functionality and design.  We can give you design flexibility with both liquid and solid colorants to make your products pop.

Avient's OnColor™ Portfolio application for iPad is a productivity tool to help designers and product developers effectively evaluate and implement color and special effects into their new products. The ability to browse color options, request samples and new color designs

We design and view images on computers, then must replicate those designs with screen-printing inks that apply color after a subtractive module. But if the inks are all within the same opacity range, the design will have even blends and larger color-gamut capabilities. If the designer utilizes a saturated color pallet, the underbase white will control the entire brightness range of the design.

Avient Design Sync design with manufacturability: Learn about how Avient Design can help simplify your new product development process Technical information, design guides, processing information and more.

More innovative product designs, through continual improvement and global customer pull, provide Avient a unique opportunity to help. From healthcare to transportation to packaging, and everything in between, we help our customers meet their product design and sustainability goals.

Discover how thermoplastic elastomers can change the game for consumer electronics design Designers are increasingly specifying TPE materials for a wide range of applications, including grips, connectors, seals, bumpers and strain reliefs.