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Company number 03176153
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UK company 03176153, incorporated on 21 March 1996.
Colour Tone Masterbatch Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 1996 based in North West England.
Company number 03176153
Updated 07 Jul 2026 09:49
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Published 25 Sep 2026 07:00
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1 Jun 2020 to 28 Feb 2021
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1 Mar 2019 to 31 May 2021
The vast majority of sorting recycling facilities that handle plastics use Near Infrared (NIR: 750 -- 1700 nm wavelength) spectroscopy for automated detection of polymer type for effective sorting; this technique has been chosen and developed over the past twenty years as being the only cost effective and robust technique for sorting mixed post consumer w...
1 Aug 2015 to 31 Jan 2016
We need to establish ‘proof of concept’, techno-economic feasibility & develop these novel ‘invisible’ dyes where an individual dye with unique spectra is used to represent a specific polymer. That dye is then used in a masterbatch to ‘mark’ every component made in that polymer type. This work will be risky & we will require financial support for this res...