Plastics Color Corp. now offering thermoset compounds

Plastics Color Corporation now offers offering thermoset plastic molding compounds through its new venture with German manufacturer Raschig GmbH, headquartered in Ludwigshafen. Plastics Color and Raschig are both subsidiaries of Sun Valley, California-based PMC Global Inc. Raschig will be distributing PCC’s complete line of additives, masterbatches and other polymer technologies throughout Europe.

“The expanded relationship between PCC and Raschig will help both our companies better serve our customers by offering a more complete line of polymer products for a wider variety of manufacturing needs and markets,” says PCC Vice President of Business Development Timothy Workman. “Raschig’s expertise and market experience really complements ours, and vice versa.”

PCC exhibited with Raschig at the 2013 K Show. 

Raschig’s granulated, free-flowing molding compounds are plastics that chemically cross-link when processed. The final 3-dimensional structure obtained after the hardening process inhibits the material from subsequent deformation. The properties of these thermosets remain constant at high application temperatures, even when these temperatures are exceeded for short periods.

Raschig produces several lines of thermosets including melamine, epoxy, polyester and phthalates. The company, founded in 1891, has plants in Ludwigshafen and Espenhain, Germany and Hoek van Holland, Netherlands. Plastics Color has manufacturing facilities in Calumet City, Ill.; Asheboro, N.C.; Sun Valley, Calif. and Nanjing, China.