Prisma Group New Facility Expansion for Colour and Additives
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Dominic Philpot appointed as Managing Director!

As we enter a new year with excitement, anticipation, opportunity and challenges, we are delighted to announce that Dominic Philpot has been appointed as Managing Director with immediate effect. With this organisational change, founder, Tim Johnson, will step into the role of Chairman for the group.

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Dimensional Stability

Warpage and distortion is often a big problem in injection moulded HDPE in particular. It is inherent due mainly to rearrangement of the polymer chains into a partially crystalline matrix, requiring less space than the molten polymer.

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Prisma Group Celebrates 30 Years In Business!

Celebrating 30 Years in Business! A remarkable amount has changed since the start-up of Prisma Colour in 1991. The company has gone from strength to strength in the last thirty years, growing to create new products, enter new...

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Prisma Group Attends Local Jobs & Apprenticeships Fair!

Prisma Group Attends Local Jobs & Apprenticeships Fair!   The Prisma Group was delighted to attend the High Peak Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair at Chapel-en-le-Frith High school on Friday 29th October. It was great to support the community and see...

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Prisma Rubber Additives’ Admix Range

Prisma Rubber Additives’ range of products are commonly referred to as powdered oils or dry blends. They are high activity concentrates of liquids widely used throughout the polymer industry.

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Prisma’s Latest Members!

Prisma's Latest Members! With the new factory move completed in 2020, Prisma Colour has brought in a number of new colleagues in the past few months to assist with the further growth of the business. We send a warm welcome to each of them and wish them well in their...

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Roto Inspires Investment

The market conditions post Brexit have been most unusual.  Global demand for materials, combined with shortages of C2 feedstock, have challenged most businesses. Combined also with a variety of shipping issues and cost pressures it has been a perfect storm in which...

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Lightfastness, weatherfastness what’s the difference?

In this second of the series examining considerations for formulating thermoplastic masterbatches, compounds and dispersions, the technical team at Prisma Colour explain the differences between lightfasness and weathering (also known as weatherfastness or durability...

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Prisma Rubber Additives’ ‘Adsulph’ Range

Prisma Rubber Additives’ range of treated sulphur dispersions are produced with the specific aim of aiding rubber compounders to achieve rapid dispersion, while maintaining high levels of physical properties in their compounds. ‘Sulphur Bloom’ is a major problem...

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Bespoke colour matching service for the Prismagum range

Let us work with you to develop the exact colours you require in your specific rubber compound. Prisma Colour has an extensive range of colour dispersions developed for most rubber polymer types – EPR, EPDM, SBR, Nitrile, FKM and others - all based on the appropriate...

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Prisma Colour Welcomes Ian Carroll

Alongside our facility expansion programme we welcome our new Technical Director Ian Carroll to the team. With a career of 30 years in the thermoplastic and allied industries, Ian brings a wealth of formulating, processing, new product development and commercial...

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Prisma Group Expansion

It has been a testing year for most businesses but despite the difficult circumstances 2020 has seen Prisma Group’s continued expansion with the relocation to a purpose-built factory with over 85,000sq feet of space. Whilst the core of the new facility is a new...

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Emma Hinchliffe joins Rotational Moulding Team

Prisma Colour have expanded their Sales Team by appointing Emma Hinchliffe as Internal Sales Liaison within the Rotational Moulding Team.  Working alongside Account Manager Michael Johnson, Emma will be responsible for establishing relationships with our current...

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Specific Carrier Systems for Rubber Masterbatch

Prisma Colour is one of the premier suppliers of colourants into the rubber industry. We manufacture both a standard range of rubber colour concentrates (see our Rubber Masterbatch Brochure on our Downloads Page) and custom manufactured bespoke colours, formulated to...

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Process Aid Masterbatches, Should You Be Using Them?

PRZ PPA masterbatches are designed to improve and enhance the extrusion process during polymer conversion for pipe, film and blow moulding applications. The benefits associated with PRZPPA’s are observed by lower energy use, higher productivity and an improvement in...

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