Manufacturing Capabilities
Eastman Color Technology Center has technical service experts who work closely with customers to make certain our concentrates meet their production needs. 
While other suppliers have limited production equipment, Eastman has a full array of manufacturing capability.
Production equipment includes:
- Continuous mixers
- Batch intensive mixers
- Twin screw extruders
- Roll mills
Color Capabilities
Eastman Color Technology Center knows color and color theory. We are able to apply that knowledge, as well as a fundamental understanding of the causes of color variation, from raw materials to testing—to our quality control methods. No matter what the needs—extrusion blow molding, film, or molded articles—customers receive consistent color, time after time, lot after lot.
The Color Center's capabilities include extrusion blow molding, profile extrusion, injection molding, thermoforming, and film and sheet extrusion. These resources allow us to duplicate our customer's production capabilities. The Color Center can mold a sample of your material or extrude your film to ensure that our color concentrates match the desired color precisely.
Eastman Color Technology Center's capabilities make a difference by reducing your development time.
Analytical/Physical Property Capabilities
Our full service analytical laboratory and research facilities possess the following capabilities:
- Liquid chromatography
- Gas chromatography
- Ultraviolet visible (UV VIS) spectrometry
- Near infrared (NIR) spectrometry
- Infrared (IR) spectrometry
- Rheometry
- X-Ray spectrometry
- Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Electron Microscopy
- Electron dispersive spectroscopy
Eastman's labs can provide a full range of sophisticated physical property tests that include weathering properties and heat stability.
The analytical labs can supply test results to the customer, eliminating the need for customer retesting of raw materials.
Technical Service Capabilities
Eastman considers technical service and product development as vital elements of our long-term commitment to customers. The technical service group has knowledgeable and experienced engineers, chemists, and technicians with decades of experience and has received worldwide recognition from industry peers.
Wherever you are, Eastman Color Technology Center can meet your color concentrates and functional additives needs. The Color Center has technical service labs located worldwide. Our technical staff uses sophisticated procedures and state-of-the-art equipment to simulate customer operations. Our experts can resolve processing problems without tying up your production equipment. The customer benefits from the advantage of eliminating false starts, reducing development time and costs, and getting the product to market quickly.