When it comes to coloring thermoset plastics, pigment dispersions are a design tool that must integrate seamlessly into your formulation. Rebus custom color solutions add the power of knowledge, the assurance of quality, and the pride of service to your fabrication process.

ABOUT US

Rebus manufactures a full line of color and additive dispersions – both paste and liquid – for the thermoset plastics industry and offers custom tolling services for creating effect chemicals, in addition to color. Since the company’s beginning in 1992, the Rebus founders continue to maintain a single vision for the company: focus all technical and marketing energies on providing custom solutions by combining products and services to substantially enhance our customers’ products, efficiency, and sales margin.
CAPABILITIES
Rebus completed its state-of-the-art facility in 1998. This manufacturing and office complex is located on a three-acre site in Aston, PA in Chester Township’s Bridgewater Business Park. The building is a single story 40,000 square foot corporate office, technical laboratory, and manufacturing facility. Situated two miles from Interstate 95, the Rebus facility is proximate to both Philadelphia International Airport and major truck transport routes.
To maintain an outstanding reputation with our customers and remain a market leader, Rebus continually invests in operating assets and infrastructure. We employ the most up-to-date manufacturing equipment, the latest information technology, effective process and quality management (such as ISO certification), and innovative product research and development.
PRODUCTS
Rebus offers a number of standard products, but as the “Color Department for the Thermoset Plastics Industry,” we can rapidly respond with custom solutions for unique customer applications.

STANDARD PRODUCTS

Rebus standard line of colors consists of the highest quality pigments dispersed in a range of vehicles to match your resin system. Single pigment dispersions range in viscosity from pourable liquids to heavy pastes depending on the type and amount of pigment used.
FULL STRENGTH MASSTONES
Your plastic can be treated with any of our standard masstones by incorporating full strength color into your polymer.
TINTS
Rebus can blend any color with the right amount of white to create lighter shades of a single masstone.
BLENDED COLORS / CUSTOM MATCHES
Rebus color experts can recommend masstone combinations and tint ratios to achieve your color and are always available to answer your questions. Request our Color Paste Selection Guide or view printable version of this page

STANDARD PRODUCT LIST
URETHANE
Rebus System 1000/2000 products provide a full range of polyester and polyether polyols that support a myriad of applications such as low density flexible foams, flex-molded and integral-skin composites, two-component high performance coatings, hot and cold cured elastomers, and other CASE applications.
POLYESTER
Rebus System 4000, 5000, and 8000 products are urethane polyester, fully reactive, and monomer-free. They are highly reactive with varying glycol co-reactants to ensure easy incorporation into matched metal die molding compounds, pultrusions, continuous laminations, resin transfer systems, gel coats, and filament windings.
EPOXY
Rebus System 6000 series epoxy products are 100% reactive Bisphenol A dispersions designed for incorporation in all epoxy resin formulations. They are ideal for industrial floor coatings, potting and encapsulation compounds, electrical laminates, aggregate coatings, and CASE formulations.
The 6000 ColorPack product line incorporates rheological modifiers for uniform viscosity control essential for ease of handling in colder climates.
Our new and innovative 6000 Non-Float dispersions overcome floatation and flocculation problems ensuring that industrial floor coatings are truly seamless.
PLASTICIZERS
Rebus System 7000 plasticizers are based on phthalate esters, which are ideally suited for a variety of flexible vinyl formulations
System 70000 plasticizers are formulated using Benzoflex 9-88 plasticizers, excellent diluent for many urethane elastomer formulations and ideal for introducing color into the prepolymer.
OTHER PRODUCTS
Rebus Series 60000 polyamine dispersions are the ideal method for coloring the resin component in polyureas.
System 80000 color dispersions, based on a 350 centistoke are FDA-approved silicone fluid and provide excellent compatibility in RTV sealants and caulks.

CUSTOM SOLUTIONS

Most of Rebus clients require customized formulations _ pigment/additive dispersions that have been specifically formulated to meet established technical criteria such as colormatch, functional chemical content, mixture of color and functional chemical, organic/inorganic content, or viscosity control.
COLOR MATCHING
Rebus’ ability to provide custom color solutions is rooted in our outstanding technical capability. This unique customer-specific orientation enables us to be the “color department” for each of our clients by offering solutions not generally available from larger companies.
CUSTOM TOLLING
Rebus staff, equipment, and state-of-the-art facility offer additional capacity for our customers manufacturing needs. In addition to color solutions, we can turn granular raw materials into a wet effect chemical for easy inclusion into your specific formulation.

SALES

MARKETS
Rebus markets include construction, transportation, electrical, electronics, recreational, furniture, and appliances and our customers are located throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Color dispersions for the thermoset urethane (products made primarily from polyol and isocyanates) market are the majority of output while about one-third of product is manufactured for the thermoset polyester (primarily unsaturated polyester) market, also known as fiberglass reinforced plastics. In addition, Rebus continues to expand its epoxy and polyurea markets by supplying pigments for a variety of products, most notably industrial flooring and sprayable polyurea systems.
One of several new product areas for Rebus is the manufacture of dispersions combining phthalate esters or benzoate esters and pigments to the CASE (coating, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers) market for end use as plasticizers for coated fabrics and urethane elastomers.
SALES
Rebus teams sales agents and distributors with our sales engineering and technical experts to provide the right products and service to each customer.
PACKAGING AND DELIVERY
We offer a variety of packaging options to fit customer requirements. Standard product orders are shipped within three days of order receipt and most custom orders can be shipped within five business days of order receipt.

CONTACT US

Rebus, Inc
205 West Bridgewater Road
Aston PA 19014
610.497.4710
Request Form: check one of the following:
Custom Tolling – tolling@rebusinc.net
Request Standard Products Color Card – colorcard@rebusinc.net
Technical Product Information – techinfo@rebusinc.net
Sales Product Information – salesinfo@rebusinc.net
Other – info@rebusinc.net

INDUSTRY LINKS

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
Rebus participation in technical and professional organizations is an important source of knowledge and collaboration on current and emerging technology, safety, health, and environmental issues. Our management and sales staff proudly participate in and support these industry associations:
Alliance for Polyurethane (API)
http://www.polyurethane.org
Composites Fabrication Association (CFA)
http://www.cfa-hq.org
International Cast Polymer Alliance (ICPA)
http://www.icpa-hq.org
Polyurethane Foam Association (PFA)
www.pfa.org
Polyurethane Manufacturers Association (PMA)
www.pmahome.org
Pultrusion Industry Council (PIC)
www.cfa-hq.org/pic
Society of Plastics Engineers, Color and Appearance Division (SPECAD)
www.specad.org
Thermoset Resin Formulators Association (TRFA)
www.trfa.org