Peace of Mind,
Agility & Illumination
“A good product may get you a customer, but a great experience will create a partner for life.”
This was one of my grandfather’s favorite sayings when he founded Penn Color in the early 1960s: that statement remains true today. So what is the Penn Color experience? The Penn Color experience means that we genuinely care for our customers, our suppliers, our employees, and our partners, in good times and in bad. This is how you get the peace of mind you’re dealing with a dependable and stable partner. And that’s the foundation for our relationship with you. Then, on that stable foundation, we build agility. We are fast, nimble, willing to take calculated risks, and easy to do business with. And finally, we create those illumination moments. These are the moments where, with an incredibly talented team and a unique set of world-class capabilities, we engineer something outstanding with you.
Peace of mind, agility, and illumination. That’s the Penn Color experience.
Kevin Putman, Jr. President and CEO of Penn ColorPeace of Mind, Agility & Illumination
“A good product may get you a customer, but a great experience will create a partner for life.”
This was one of my grandfather’s favorite sayings when he founded Penn Color in the early 1960s: that statement remains true today. So what is the Penn Color experience? The Penn Color experience means that we genuinely care for our customers, our suppliers, our employees, and our partners, in good times and in bad. This is how you get the peace of mind you’re dealing with a dependable and stable partner. And that’s the foundation for our relationship with you. Then, on that stable foundation, we build agility. We are fast, nimble, willing to take calculated risks, and easy to do business with. And finally, we create those illumination moments. These are the moments where, with an incredibly talented team and a unique set of world-class capabilities, we engineer something outstanding with you.
Peace of mind, agility, and illumination. That’s the Penn Color experience.
Kevin Putman, Jr. President and CEO of Penn ColorProducts by Trade,
Service by Culture
We are a product company by trade and a service company by culture. This is what we believe in, what defines our behavior with customers, suppliers, partners, and with each other. This shapes both what type of value customers get from Penn Color and how we conduct business. This is the Penn Color experience.
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UniqueUnique Position in the Industry, Combining Expertise & Agility
We are among the global leaders in terms of knowledge, experience, and capabilities, on par with some A-type competitors of much larger size and above local B-type competitors, whose scale does not allow the same depth and breadth of expertise. We owe this position to our exposure to the largest variety of end-applications as well as to our unique ability to cross-pollinate masterbatch and inks, and coating technologies.
At the same time, we are the only major player in the field that remains under multi-generation, stable, private ownership. This allows us to embrace market fluidity, take risks, pivot quickly when needed, swiftly fix mistakes, and be agile and easy to do business with. We do whatever it takes to support customers, as a strategic commitment that some competitors may not want to make, and that less nimble organizations find challenging.
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55% Dry TechnologiesColors and functional additives for thermoplastics and compounds.
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45% Wet TechnologiesPigment dispersions for inks & coating, and finished inks.
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50 Technology Typescarrier type, chemistries, ...
DiverseMost Diversified Portfolio & Unique Opportunities for Cross-Pollination
Penn Color serves the most diversified portfolio of end-applications in the industry. Our services build on the technical expertise that we have in both wet and dry technologies and on the insights that we gather from our exposure to the widest range of businesses.
Our approach to R&D makes the Penn Experience unique: we look at technical challenges and find solutions in a way that other monolithic companies would never even think of.
Our customers also benefit directly from our learnings of successes and failures of business cases in totally different fields, and from our ability to see untapped potential of technology transfers between unrelated fields.
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25,000 Order Lines Shipped
Every Year -
100k QC Tests Per Year -
5k Analytical Tests -
99.8% Customer Satisfaction
dependableConsistent high quality & de-risked supply chain
For thermoplastics masterbatches, pigment dispersions for inks & coating, as well as for all tolled products, Penn Color achieves the tightest specs in the industry while maintaining best-in-class, lot-to-lot consistency.
At the same time, we strive to ensure continuity of production for our customers: managing raw material suppliers at the global level, maintaining an exhaustive list of alternative materials, and swiftly adjusting inventory levels when needed to help insulate our own operations from external disruptions.
This is a foundational element of the Penn Experience: offering the peace of mind of having a dependable and stable supplier for the core, so the teams can spend more time thinking about the next steps of incremental value creation.
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Masterbatch
or Liquid Dispersion -
Catalog Products
or Custom Formulations -
Contract Manufacturing
or Tolling -
50 lbs to
50,000 lbs -
Just-in-time
or Make-to-hold
FLEXIBLEAdaptable Business Model & Capabilities
Penn Color’s business model and capabilities are built for the greatest flexibility. We offer both thermoplastics masterbatches and liquid dispersions for inks and coatings, both catalog products and custom formulations, both contract manufacturing and tolling, both just-in-time and make-to-hold, all for batches in sizes from 50 lbs to 50,000 lbs.
In addition, we are open to considering investment in new capacity and capabilities, when the business cases for both Penn Color and customers align strategically and financially.
A big part of the Penn Experience comes from Penn Color being adaptable-by-design, to find an easy business fit.
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GLOBALLY
ONEGLOBALDesign Centers & Manufacturing Operations Around the World
We keep developing our commercial, design, manufacturing and service footprint, around the world. The key components of our business are standardized and deployed across all Penn Color entities around the world. This includes safety standards, R&D guidelines, technical databases, analytical measurement standards and methods, regulatory databases and processes, equipment standardization, standard procedures in operations, QA/QC procedures, suppliers database, raw material databases, IS integrity and protection.
This is our “globally one” strategy, that supports the Penn Experience: any project can seamlessly be transferred from one point of the Penn Color global network to the other. Customers can have the exact same expectations from Penn Color and will have the same experience with us, irrespectively of the Penn Color entity they engage around the world.
- Unique
- Diverse
- Dependable
- Flexible
- Global
Unique Position in the Industry, Combining Expertise & Agility
We are among the global leading companies in terms of knowledge, experience, and capabilities, on par with some A-type competitors of much larger size and above local B-type competitors, whose scale does not allow the same depth and breadth of expertise. We owe this position to our exposure to the largest variety of end industries as well as to our unique ability to cross-pollinate masterbatch and inks, and coating technologies.
At the same time, we are the only major player in the field that remains under multi-generation stable, private ownership. This allows us to embrace market fluidity, take risks, pivot quickly when needed, swiftly fix mistakes, and be agile and easy to do business with. We do whatever it takes to support customers, as a strategic commitment that some competitors may not want to make, and that less nimble organizations find challenging.
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55% Dry Technologies
Colors & functional additives for thermoplastics, compounds
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45% Wet Technologies
Pigments dispersions for inks & coatings, finished inks
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50 Technology Types
Most diversified portfolio & unique opportunities for cross-pollination
Penn Color serves the most diversified portfolio of end-applications in the industry. Our services build on the technical expertise that we have in both wet and dry technologies and on the insights that we gather from our exposure to the widest range of businesses.
Our approach in R&D make the Penn Experience unique: we look at technical challenges and find solutions in a way that other more monolithic companies would never even think of.
Our customers also benefit directly from our learnings of successes and failures of business cases in totally different fields, and from our ability to see the untapped potential of technology transfers between unrelated fields.
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25,000 Order Lines Shipped Every Year
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100k QC Tests Per Year
-
5k Analytical Tests
-
99.8% Customer Satisfaction
Consistent High Quality & De-Risked Supply Chain
For thermoplastics masterbatches, pigment dispersion for inks & coating, as well as all for all tolled products, Penn Color achieves the tightest specs in the industry while maintaining best-in-class lot-to-lot consistency.
At the same time, we thrive to ensure continuity of production to our customers: managing raw material suppliers at global level, maintaining an exhaustive list of alternative materials, swiftly adjusting inventory levels when needed… help insulate our own operations from external disruptions.
This is a foundational element of the Penn Experience: offering the peace of mind of having a dependable and stable supplier for the core, so that the teams can spend more time thinking about the next steps of incremental value creation.
-
Masterbatch
or Liquid Dispersion -
Catalog Products
or Custom Formulations -
Contract Manufacturing
or Tolling -
50 lbs to
50,000 lbs -
Just-in-time
or Make-to-hold
Adaptable business model & capabilities
Penn Color’s business model and capabilities are built for the greatest flexibility: we offer both thermoplastics masterbatches and liquid dispersions for inks & coating, both catalog products and custom-formulations, both contract manufacturing and tolling, both just-in-time and make-to-hold, all for batches in sizes from 50lbs to 50,000lbs.
In addition, we are open to consider investment in new capacity and capabilities, when the business cases for both Penn Color and customers align strategically and financially.
A big part of the Penn Experience comes from Penn Color being adaptable-by-design, to find an easy business fit.
GLOBALLY ONE
Design centers & manufacturing operations around the world
We keep developing our commercial, design, manufacturing and service footprint, around the world. The key components of our business are standardized and deployed across all Penn Color entities around the world. This includes safety standards, R&D guidelines, technical data bases, analytical measurement standards & methods, regulatory data bases & processes, equipment standardization, standard procedures in operations, QA/QC procedures, suppliers database, raw material database, IS integrity and protection.
This is our “globally one” strategy, that supports the Penn Experience: any project can seamlessly be transferred from one point of the Penn Color global network to the other; customers can have the exact same expectations from Penn Color and will have the same experience with us, irrespectively of the Penn Color entity they engage around the world.
Transform Ideas
Into Reality
Penn Color has established Lumio™, a global network of workspaces for brands, designers, converters, materials, and equipment suppliers to develop and validate new products. Creative spaces and technical laboratories are seamlessly integrated to support a design journey that is creative, agile, and transparent.
Lumio has state-of-the-art capabilities to support design. More importantly, Lumio is what designers, brand managers, buyers, and manufacturing leaders love about the Penn Experience: the place of choice for their creative work, and the place they keep going back to.
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