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of COLOUR, BLACK, WHITE, ADDITIVE and MULTIFUNCTIONAL MASTERBATCH
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DOUGLAS BAKER PLASTICS
QUALITY, INTEGRITY
EXPERIENCE
Established over 40 years ago and centrally located in the United Kingdom, Douglas Baker Plastics is still a family run business and we pride ourselves on our ability to satisfy the requirements of our customers in a world of ever increasing demands. Our aim is to exceed our customers’ expectations. Our technical team has vast technical knowledge available to support your projects and provide solutions to your problems.
Today our company is a leading manufacturer of colour, black, white, additive and multifunctional masterbatch providing a high concentrate package for either colouring, or enhancing the performance, of plastic. A selection of high quality pigments and/or additives are formulated to your specific requirements, then encapsulated within a carrier polymer via a heat process (extrusion) and pelletised for you to let down into your chosen dilution polymer using a pre-defined ratio (normally between 1% - 5%). During your moulding process the masterbatch will disperse homogeneously within your polymer. Our products are used in a vast range of applications worldwide and will work within the injection moulding, blow moulding and rotational moulding processes and are also suitable for sheet and film extrusion.
Our core principles of quality, integrity, flexibility, speed of service and competitive pricing are supported by ongoing investment in our employees and our production facilities. This commitment helps keep us at the forefront of masterbatch processing and whilst we are large enough to supply major international clients, we are small enough to have the flexibility to respond rapidly to clients individual requirements.
NEXT DAY COLOUR MATCH SERVICE
THE TOTAL SERVICE PACKAGE
PRODUCT DESIGN & PROBLEM SOLVING
NEXT DAY COLOUR MATCH SERVICE
PROMPT DELIVERY
PRODUCTION TO SCHEDULED REQUIREMENT
EXACTING QUALITY MANAGEMENT
PRODUCT DESIGN • MATCH CURRENT SPECIFICATION
PRODUCTION TO SCHEDULED REQUIREMENTS
PROMPT DELIVERY • EXACTING QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Our technical laboratory team are highly experienced and successful in solving our customers’ design and processing issues. We hold formulation knowledge gained from exporting masterbatch all over the world and can advise you on how to achieve a bespoke finished product that satisfies all your requirements. We can help you match to existing Pantone or RAL references, a current specification in the form of a moulding or masterbatch standard or merely a colour of your choice!
We regularly review our performance and systems and this quality awareness continually results in the optimisation of processes and operations. We develop partnerships with our customers by refining our controls to meet their specific requirements. Our Laboratory is equipped to the latest technical standards and through high levels of quality control, we can offer product consistency and customer satisfaction.
If your requirement is time sensitive, we can always provide a next day colour match service.
For us to get started on a providing a masterbatch for you, please download our Colour Match Enquiry form at the bottom of the website or call our friendly sales team on 01902 353800.
Once you have approved the colour of the match plaques provided to you, then we can produce a free of charge sample for you to trial at your own facilities to ensure that your finished product meets all your colour, application and performance requirements.
Production batches from 25kgs to 25,000kgs full container load.
At Douglas Baker we use a range of high speed mixers or 1 tonne ribbon blenders to uniformly blend materials and ensure product consistency. We operate single and twin screw extruders some with multi feed systems capable of accurately metering up to 8 different components and offer a tints, fluorescents and photo luminescent dedicated line and a naturals and whites dedicated line.
We consider our flexibility to be one of our greatest strengths, therefore we will always do our best to accommodate your scheduling requirements, and even next day delivery of production orders can be possible!
If you are exporting for the first time or require further assistance in the preparation of documents our sales team are practised in export documentation and forwarding logistics and we can produce a variety of shipping documents and certificates or statements required against Letters of Credit.
PERSONAL
SERVICE
We strive to offer our customers the best possible technical solutions and consistently high quality, reliable products combined with excellent service at competitive prices.
We can design and produce bespoke colour masterbatch tailored to your exact requirements, additive masterbatch providing enhancement to your end product or aiding the efficiency of your manufacturing process, or multifunctional masterbatch which is a combination of colour and/or additives developed specifically to your needs.
We offer colour compounding, particularly suited to applications where accuracy of colour is critical and pigment blends, most suitable for rotational moulding.
We are able to provide a toll compounding service, general or speciality, short or long term contracts. Contact us for more information and charges.
We pride ourselves on our integrity and therefore only use high quality pigments, additives and polymers from reputable suppliers. We can process into polyolefins, styrenes, polyamide, polycarbonate, PET and many other engineering plastics.
THE BAKERS DOZEN
If you need something off the shelf or that can be used into a number of polymers, then we have a range of standard universal colours that we hold in stock. For more information on the technical specification and polymer applications of these masterbatches, please see the BAKERS DOZEN information form at the bottom of the website
• Colour masterbatch
• Black and white masterbatch
• Additive masterbatch
• Antistatic
• Blowing agents – exothermic
and endothermic
• Flame retardants
• Glow in the dark
• Laser marking
• Mould release agents
• Nucleating agents
• Slip agents
• UV stabilizers
• Multifunctional masterbatch
• Colour compounds
• Pigment blends
• Toll compounding service
OUR
PRODUCT RANGE
INDUSTRIES WE SERVE
AUTOMOTIVE & TRANSPORT
Our technical team can liaise with your designers and engineers to create a tailored masterbatch that meets your aesthetic and technical requirements.
CONSTRUCTION & GARDEN PRODUCTS
We can develop colour or multifunctional products where more durability is required.
DOMESTIC APPLIANCES
We can assist you in the selection of pigments and additives to formulate a masterbatch suitable for use in a wide range of engineering polymers.
FOOD PACKAGING
Douglas Baker has formulated a host of multifunctional masterbatches for various customers to enhance the performance of their products, combining colour and additives to improve moulding, efficiencies and protecting contents of valuable foodstuffs.
HOUSEWARE
We can assist your designers develop houseware products that are trend setters! We can offer special effects masterbatch including glitter, pearlescent, fluorescents, metallics, wood effect, truly transparent or simply deep and vibrant shades.
RETURNABLE TRANSIT PACKAGING
Our technical laboratory team are highly experienced in supplying masterbatch for use in RTP i.e. crates, boxes, ALC’s, recycling containers and can advise on pigment and additive selection to ensure your end product is fit for purpose.
TOYS, BABYCARE & PHARMACEUTICALS
Douglas Baker has the technical knowledge and expertise to ensure your end product has full compliance with the regulations for toy, food and pharmaceuticals within the UK or other global markets:-
Food contact applications conform with AP (89)1, 10/2011/EC, 90/128/EEC, BGVV and other European standards and FDA21/CFR178:3297, if required
Toy applications our products comply with EN71
Pharmaceutical applications conform to Pharma regulations
We are large enough to supply major international clients
We are small enough to have the flexibility to respond rapidly to customers’ individual requirements.
We are consistently investing in our company
We are a financially secure and independent family owned business
COMPLIANCE
At Douglas Baker Plastics we are committed to continuous quality improvement and were the first masterbatch company in the UK to gain accreditation to ISO 9001, the internationally recognized quality systems standard organization which is the model for quality assurance in design, production, installation and servicing.
To download our ISO9001 certificate please see Our Certification at the bottom of the website.
All our formulations are REACH and RoSH compliant
Food contact applications conform with AP (89)1, 10/2011/EC, 90/128/EEC, BGVV
and other European standards and FDA21/CFR178:3297, if required
Toy applications our products comply with EN71
Pharmaceutical applications conform to Pharma regulations
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EMAIL sales@dbplastics.co.uk
DOUGLAS BAKER PLASTICS LTD
Doubak Works, Etruria Way, Mount Pleasant,
Bilston, West Midlands, WV14 7LH
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