Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgments. Contributors. 1. Introduction (Robert A. Charvat). 2. Color as a Science (William R. Mathew and Cathy J. Hanlin). 3. Colorimetry, Color Specifications, and Production Tolerances by Visual and Instrumental Means (Danny C. Rich, et al.) 4. Advanced Color Formulation Technology (Robert Olmsted). 5. Visual Color Matching of Plastic Materials (Frances A. Leiby). 6. Iso 9000 and Other ISO Standards, Guides, and Test Procedures (Charles T. Bradshaw). 7. Introduction to Colorants (Robert A. Charvat). 8. Organic Colorants (Peter A. Lewis). 9. Inorganic Colored Pigments (George Rangos). 10. Titanium Dioxide Pigments (Dwight A. Holtzen and Austin H. Reid). 11. Carbon Black Pigments (Scott A. Brewer). 12. Soluble Dyes (Craig Weadon and Walter Martin). 13. Photochromic and Thermochromic Colorants (John J. Luthern). 14. Metallic Pigments (Bernhard Klein and Hans--Henning Bunge). 15. Pearlescent Pigments/Flakes (Gerhard Pfaff and Joachim Weitzel). 16. Fluorescence (Christopher Newbacher). 17. Introduction to Colorant Selection and Application Technology (Dennis I. Meade). 18. Color Compounding (Scott D. Russell). 19. Dry Color Concentrate Manufacture (Joseph M. Cameron). 20. Liquid Color Concentrates (Richard L. Abrams). 21. Use of Color Concentrates (Scott D. Russell and Ralph A. Itelfer). 22. Product Testing (Ronald Harris). 23. Effect of Additives On Coloring Plastics (Bruce M. Mulholland). 24. Recycling (Jack W. Blakeman). 25. The Environment and Government Regulations (Patrick Surgeon). 26. Use Of Statistics in the Coloring of Plastics (Thomas V. Edwards). Index.

About the Author

ROBERT A. CHARVAT is President of Charvat and Associates, Inc. and Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio and teaches at Terra Community College in Fremont, Ohio.

Reviews

"...timely and well intended...a good resource" (Color Technology, No. 120, 2004) "This book is recommended for research and special libraries with chemical engineering and material science collections." (E--STREAMS, July 2004)