We recognise the extensive role of plastic-moulded materials in the Automotive and Transportation industries. Plastics are utilised in various vehicle components, including exterior parts such as bumper fascia, cladding, rocker panels and body sides, as well as interior elements like door rims, instrument panels, seat belts, consoles, armrests, grip handles, seat backs, public transport seats, dashboards, upholstery, and knee bolsters. Understanding that automotive plastics must meet rigorous standards for strength, safety, colour, and appearance, we offer a comprehensive range of masterbatches and compounds, tailored to meet these demanding requirements across the industry.
The specification does. Automotive parts are qualified against OEM requirements covering heat ageing, light fastness, fogging, odour and colour tolerance, and those requirements are tested rather than claimed. A shade that looks correct is not enough — it has to hold after heat ageing and UV exposure, and pass the fogging test. Tell us the specification you are working to.
Fogging is the condensation of volatile components from interior plastics onto the windscreen — the haze that builds up on a car left in the sun. Interior components are tested for it, so pigments, additives and carriers all have to be low-volatile. This is one of the main reasons an interior grade cannot simply be a general-purpose grade in the right colour.
Component by component, on the actual substrates. A dashboard in filled polypropylene, a trim clip in polyamide and a textured moulding all read differently from the same formulation, and surface texture changes perceived shade as much as pigment does. We match each against the same measured target on its own material and finish. See Color Masterbatches and Engineering Polymer Masterbatches.
Bumper fascia, cladding, rocker panels and body sides are permanently exposed, so they need lightfast pigments plus a UV stabiliser package sized against the warranty period — not just against appearance. Black exterior components benefit from carbon black as a screen; see Black Masterbatches, carbon black and UV protection and our Additive Masterbatches range.
Yes. Polyamide, PBT, polycarbonate, ABS and acetal are all common in automotive components and need a resin-matched carrier and heat-stable pigments at 280–300°C. Glass-filled grades need their own colour match because fibre at the surface changes how the shade reads. See Engineering Polymer Masterbatches.
Increasingly yes, driven by OEM sustainability targets, and mostly in non-visible and under-bonnet components first. The barriers are property consistency and colour, both of which our Recycling Masterbatches range addresses. See masterbatch for recycled and PCR plastic and our sustainability page.
Yes. Life Color Pigments & Masterbatches is an automotive masterbatch manufacturer in India, supplying colour and additive masterbatch for interior and exterior automotive and transportation components from Vasai East, Palghar, Maharashtra. Read more about us, see our certifications, or contact us.
Tell us the component, the resin grade and the OEM specification you are testing to — we will formulate against it and send a sample to trial.
Request a sampleTell us the polymer, the process and roughly how much you need a month. We come back with a grade recommendation and a price — not a brochure.
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