CHROMA WORLDWIDE:
INTERNATIONAL COLOUR ALLIANCE

Local service. Global reach. When you make Chroma Corporation your color partner, you gain access to worldwide color resources of the highest standard.

To meet our customers' growing need for global service, Chroma has formed the International Colour Alliance. The three founding companies are Chroma Corporation of USA, Lifocolor Farben GmbH & Co. KG of Germany, and Cromex of Brazil.

This alliance between three privately owned and highly regarded color houses directly benefits our customers through access to reliable, consistent color and additive masterbatches from local production bases in Europe, South Africa, North America and South America. The three companies share not only manufacturing and distribution resources, but also batch formulations, so you know your color will be consistent regardless of where the finished part was made.  The alliance continues to strengthen with new partners that include Panacea Polymers - South Africa, IWP - Indonesia, World Pigment - thailand, and most recently Ngai Hing Hong with four locations in China.  On the liquid color side of the business, the Liquid Color Alliance is made up of Riverdale Injecta Color and Maguire Products.

These color houses have a long-standing reputation for providing high quality dispersion and excellent custom formulations in pellet and liquid concentrates for polyolefins and engineering thermoplastics. Each specializes in on-the-floor technical service and tailor-made products, based upon customers' specific material and processing requirements, principally for injection molding, blow molding and sheet extrusion applications.

Lifocolor Farben GmbH & Co. KG was established in 1978 and today supplies the European and selected overseas markets from production sites in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Poland and most recently South Africa. Lifocolor provides tailor-made color concentrates, additives, and precolor. With a staff of 100 people, Lifocolor services customers throughout mainland Europe.

Cromex Brancolor serves the entire South American market from three production facilities in Brazil.

Chroma Corporation provides total color solutions to its customers from three facilities. Two manufacturing sites in McHenry, Illinois create custom formulated masterbatch color, additive concentrates, and precolor compounds. Chroma's Liquid Color Alliance Partner is now known as Riverdale Injecta Color Systems. They are a major supplier of liquid color concentrates throughout North America and abroad, and has a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and laboratories in Perth Amboy, N.J.

Panacea Polymers serving South African conventers with tailor-made plastic and color compounds.

Ngai Hing Hong has over 30 years of experience in the business of pigments, masterbatches, and plastic resins.  With advanced matured computer color matching systems, advanced computerized production lines and experienced management team, Ngai Hing Hong is able to meet every need of their customers.  They have the capacity of producing over 4200 metric tons of color masterbatches, pigments, compounding resins, and tailor-made engineering plastics a month.  Ngai Hing Hong's manufacturing locations are located in:  Quingdao City, Dongguan, Shanghai City, and Hong Kong.

Liquid Color Alliance

Riverdale-Injecta Color Systems manufactures liquid color and additives and dispersions for the plastics industry.  Main manufacturing location is in Perth Amboy, NJ with a satellite operation set to open during the second quarter of 2005 in the United Kingdom.  

Maguire Products has materials management systems for plastics molding, extrusion, and compounding.  They have facilities in Aston, PA, United Kingdom, and Singapore.

For more information or to contact any of the alliance partners visit the International Colour Alliance web site at www.internationalcolouralliance.com.