Can pigmented bottles be fluorinated?
A. Fluoro-Seal has successfully fluorinated every color imaginable, including pearlescent pigments. With some colors there may be slight bleaching and some pigments require higher levels of treatment to attain comparable results with unpigmented bottles. Product testing is strongly recommended before beginning production to ensure the treatment level specified will meet your requirements. The most common color for fluorinated bottles is white. Black, brown, red and yellow bottles are also routinely treated, but the number of customers and volumes are lower. Absolute optimum barrier is always obtained with natural unpigmented resin. With some pigmented bottles, the fluorination level may have to be increased to match the barrier performance attained with an all natural resin container and meet application requirements. Weight loss testing is always advised and serves as your principle guide to satisfactory performance. When use of an unpigmented resin is not possible, customers with ver
