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Color and Special Effect Technologies

Differentiate Your Products
Custom colors and effects differentiate products in crowded segments. Fantasia® offers a broad palette of color services, from color matching to custom compounding, and we also offer technologies ranging from molded-in color to custom coloration of already molded parts. Fantasia® Color and Special Effect Technologies are intended for use only with engineering plastics from Bayer, including polycarbonate and polycarbonate blends.

Select a technology to see examples

LEDA®

Compounded Color Technology

LEDA® compounded color technology adds the colorants and additives right in the pellet to yield the exact molded-in colors and special effects you want time-after-time, displaying effects such as sparkle, shimmer, pearlescence, glow-in-the-dark and metallic appearance.

AURA®

Infusion Technology

AURA® infusion technology truly allows you to color parts on demand. Apply color to one - or a million and one - already molded or extruded parts with AURA® infusion technology.

MILENA®

Color Concentrates for Special Applications

MILENA® color concentrate technology delivers the industry's most vibrant and versatile colors for special applications such as CDs and DVDs, without the hassles usually associated with coloring Optical Data Storage (ODS) media.
Discover the Color Competence Center

View this video to learn more about the Bayer Color Competence Center in Filago, Italy, one of three global locations where Bayer MaterialScience creates colors and special effects for its plastics.