TCN visited Vision Expo East 2024 in New York last week. Vision Expo East brings together all optical professionals. It is a global platform that connects the medical, fashion and optical industry sectors. This was an opportunity for TCN to present : its tinting ranges for CR39® and polycarbonate lenses, its dry polishing process with…
The ISO 12312-1:2022 solar standard, which governs the requirements for sun protection filters, has been updated. The aim of this development is to reinforce the safety and reliability of products designed to protect against the sun’s harmful rays, thus ensuring better protection for the eyes. Main changes to ISO 12312-1:2022 Changes to this standard include…
Dear customers, dear partners, We are delighted to announce our participation at MIDO, the eyewear industry’s premier event, which takes place in Milan from February 3 to 5, 2024. We invite you to visit us at stand B22, located in pavilion 6, where we look forward to welcoming you and sharing our latest innovations and…
We’re proud to announce that leading certification body TÜV Rheinland has just renewed our ISO 9001:2015 certification! This renewal testifies to our continuous improvement approach towards ever greater customer satisfaction and reliability of our product ranges. But there’s more! This year, we reached a crucial milestone by obtaining ISO 14001:2015 certification, again with TÜV Rheinland….
Dear customers, dear partners, We are pleased to invite you to meet our team at the SILMO Paris show, one of the most famous events in the optical industry. This year, the SILMO Paris will be held from September 29th to October 2nd 2023 at the Parc des Expositions in Paris Nord Villepinte. This event…
A color with many symbols, bright red is in the spotlight at TCN this summer. In China, red is synonymous with happiness, luck and success. With the launch of this new bright red collection, TCN wishes its partners and customers all the best! Requiring several weeks of research and development in our own laboratory, TCN’s…
After several months of preparation, TCN has just finalized its first partnership in the USA, with Oryx Additive. Oryx Additive is an American advanced manufacturing equipment development and manufacturing company. It provides solutions in a number of additive manufacturing sectors, including consumer products, design and engineering, automotive, aerospace and medical. This partnership brings together two…
Dry-barreling process for optical frames and other cellulose acetate parts During Mido Milan 2023, we launched our new eco-friendly polishing pastes. The process of dry barreling involves putting pieces to be polished in bulk into rotating barrels. This technology is mainly used by the eyewear industry but also the button industry among others. Indeed, dry…
Welcome to Lorine, our new colleague based in New York! Dynamic and willing , Lorine joined us a few weeks ago. Her main mission is to present our dip coloring process to the American 3D printing industry. To do so, she went to the Amug Conference in Chicago, and will be present at the TCT…
In this month of March 2023, Techniques Chimiques Nouvelles celebrates its 60th anniversary! This is an opportunity for our entire team to thank all our customers, some of whom have been loyal to us since our creation in 1963. This constancy attests to the quality of our offer. It is based on our dyeing products…
Lots of companies from the traditional orthotics and prosthetics industry are turning to 3D printing technologies since 3D printed orthoses have several benefits over traditional orthoses. Indeed, 3D printing allows the creation of unique devices so that the product fits the wearer perfectly. Those custom-made 3D printing orthoses also offer an optimal comfort. Also, by…
At the beginning of this year, TCN is continuing its voluntary CSR approach begun in 2022. It is based on the three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. We will thus be increasing our eco-responsible initiatives in 2023, which will involve all our employees. You can now download our CSR report here: https://www.techniques-chimiques-nouvelles.com/en/sustainable-development/
For this Formnext, Frankfurt 2002 session, which took place from November 16 to 19, many of you visited the TCN booth. Some of you asked our teams for advice concerning the dyeing process for your 3D printing parts, others discovered our ranges of coloring for polymers. A really enriching Formnext 2022 edition thanks to your…
To inaugurate its new premises and production site, TCN opened its doors on September 20, 2022. Thank you all, our customers and partners who came in great numbers to discover our new premises, equipment, and the full range of our services. During coloring workshops, you improvised as chemists and that in joy and good mood:…
Polycarbonate is a plastic used in the fabrication of various items, such as screens, and glasses for sports or safety. PCL4 liquid dyes are suitable for the coloration of non-coated polycarbonate lenses, by dipping. They are easy to use, the process is fast and allows to obtain even colors. Follow the steps below to dye…
The carrier HDX allows to reduce up to 4 times the coloration time of your high-index lenses. High-index organic lenses (1.60 – 1.67) are thick lenses. Therefore, the coloration process is slower than with standard lenses. Discover how to accelerate the coloration of your high-index organic lenses, with our carrier HDX, used as a pretreatment….
TCN visited the premises of the eyewear company Novacel, one of its loyal customers based in Château-Thierry. The purpose was to discover their organic lens tinting semi-industrial process, using TCN’s CRX powders. CRX dyeing powders are suitable to tint CR-39® organic lenses. They can be used in small or large productions. Watch our demo video…
Whether it is for aesthetics or to make solar lenses, a lot of glasses lenses are tinted. CRX powders are specific coloring powders useful to color coated and CR-39® organic lenses. Our CRX powders include 26 standard colors that can be mixed with each other. They are available in plastic boxes of 500 g and…
If you have the intention of creating your own color, you will have to choose criteria adapted to the realization of the desired shade after defining the color that you need (see part 3), starting from selecting primary colors that will be used to produce it. 4.1. Choice of primary colors In practice, TCN can…
TCN at the Mido Eyewear Show in Milan from April 30th to May 2nd 2022! This essential event of the eyewear industry allowed our team to exchange views with our customers and prospects on the polishing and coloration of their spectacle frames and/or organic lenses. We wanted to thank our loyal customers, who told us…
In order to define a color, it is necessary to determine it according to a reference frame as the Pantone color chart for instance, and measure the result. You often need specific shades that are not part of TCN’s standard shades of coloration ranges: CRX, GTC, GTD, TACC, PCL4… This device allows you to check…
Colors can be classified in 3 categories according to their composition: primary, secondary and tertiary colors. The primary colors group serves to create all of the other colors, through combinations made between the different categories. This combination principle allows TCN to make numerous coloring products adapted to specific plastics. Here is this principle in detail:…
By way of introduction, we will remind you of a few basic notions of physics. Then, during the following weeks, we will deal with the combination principle and the definition of color. You will also discover how to create a color. And finally, we will share with you our tips to correct a color. It…
TCN (Techniques Chimiques Nouvelles) has chosen Grand Paris Sud to establish its new premises! Since January 2022, TCN, a French manufacturer of colouring and polishing products for plastic parts, has taken over its brand new headquarters in the territory, at 20, rue des Carriers Italiens, in Grigny. A further illustration of the attractiveness of Grand…
Since 1963, TCN, the French manufacturer of coloring preparation and polishing products is located in Malakoff, near Paris. From January 2022, TCN will move in its new head office, just out of the ground, in Grigny South of Paris. But why? TCN’s constant growth means that we need to: . double our production capacities and…
For the third year, TCN will exhibit at Formnext Frankfurt. We will be pleased to welcome you on booth Hall 12.1 B67. And…to celebrate the return to face-to-face meetings, we invite you to bring a test part to have it dyed right in front of your eyes!
TCN will be pleased to welcome you on booth H05 during 3D Print Paris! Moreover, Jean-Yves Morosolli, our Head of Strategy and R&D will be speaker in the program of the workshops. https://www.3dprint-exhibition-paris.com/fr/session/3e9843a0-e4ee-eb11-b563-a085fc3e7f45 During this workshop, we will show you how to dye your 3D print parts whatever the printing technology you are using!
Origine France Garantie is the only label certifying origin which is endorsed by the French Ministry for Industry. It is also the only universal label which certifies that products are produced in France. After an audit was conducted at TCN, the Origine France Garantie label has been awarded by the Bureau Veritas Certification France for…
For the first time, TCN participated to the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) conference that took place in Orlando. Since we were not allowed to travel to the U.S, we shared the booth with one of our American partners. He represented us efficiently in demonstrating TCN’s time saver, scalable and high quality dyeing process. A…
RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU and (EU) 2015/863 stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment. It contributes to the protection of the human health and the environment. This means that our above-mentioned products conform with RoHS Directive. So, our customers and partners can rest assured that the process of their colored plastic parts…
With its new ISO 9001 certification, TCN starts 2021 on a positive note. This means that evolving towards greater client satisfaction while always improving our organization are two of the main TCN’s goals for this new year!
We are glad to announce that our GTD blue 8889 dye is food contact compliant. GTD Black 8910 is also available in this new plastic dye food contact range. Those colors are suitable for food contact as you can see on our certifications and labels bulletin. Our polyamide parts dyed with these shades conform with…
Always looking for new services and in order to meet the needs of our partners, TCN products have obtained several certifications and Labels. COLOUR FASTNESS NF EN ISO 105-C06 06-2010 to domestic and commercial laundering Staining 4/5 Change 4/5 NF EN ISO 105 E04:2013-06 to perspiration Staining 4/5 Change 4/5 NF EN ISO 105 X12…
SLA resins: crystalline, opaque, bright, metallic effects. The SLA dyes and pigments range is mainly meant for photocure resins used in stereolithography. This bulk-dyeing of the resins allows to achieve various results: transparent or colored resins metallic and pearly effect. In liquid form, SLA range provides an excellent tinting strengh, a perfect dispersion in ploymers and…
The liquid anti-UV 8630LC is efficient on most of plastics. Suitable with GTC and GTD liquid dyes, it is certified according to ISO 11507 by the Element independent body. It prolongs the plastic parts lifetime since it increases by 1 to 3 points on the grey scale(see the figure above). The process is very simple and…
A famous fashion house calls upon the TCN expertise to color very high-end accessories. The top models showed those tinted parts sewn into the dresses. TCN: a Star is Born!
TCN is willing to ensure its customers the highest standards for performance and reliability. Therefore, we recently acquired a Konica Minolta new generation spectrocolorimeter. This investment enables us to guarantee to our customers and partners: – Ever greater conformity, – Performance of color matching, – An utmost precision of the colors quality control.
We would like to thank all the visitors to TCN booth at the 2019 edition of FORMNEXT, the world’s leading international exhibition for additive production technologies and 3D printing, held from 2019- November 19th to 22nd in Frankfurt. We hope that you enjoyed meeting with us and that we brought you the information you needed….
For the second year, TCN exhibits at Formnext – the world’s leading international exhibition for additive production technologies and 3D printing – to be held from 19 to 22 November 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We invite you to visit us at our stand E129 HALL 12.1. where our team will be at your…
TCN has developed a new bicomponent clear epoxy resin referenced RD8 which perfectly suits to decorative applications and high-end finishes. RD8 epoxy resin is bisphenol-A and derivates free, fully compliant with Californian prop 65. It has the same chemical and mechanical properties as our RD3 resin, with a shorter curing time. Do not hesitate to…
You are an actor in the field of additive manufacturing and look for a perfect surface result of your parts? TCN brings you the solution by now offering you plastic medias, in addition to our wide range of polishing pastes. These new CPA15 medias allow the surface treatment of hard-to-polish plastics. Their high abrasive power is…
In addition to our wide range of polishing pastes, we offer polishing bars for manual use. They can be used on all plastic materials and precious metals. This wide range covers all the polishing steps: grinding, polishing, finishing and brightening. In order to help you choosing the most appropriate bar according to you specific needs,…
It is now possible to dye your white 3D printed parts with our famous GTC liquid dyes which are suitable with the new 3D parts printed with HP 300/500. YOU WANT TO DISCOVER THE RESULT ON YOUR PARTS? Do not hesitate to contact us at peresse@color-tcn.com to get your free samples!
After the Mido Eyewear Show in Milan Italy last February, TCN visited the RapidPro show held on 13 and 14 March 2019 in Veldhoven – The Netherlands. National and international exhibitors of 3D Industry presented their latest innovations. The opportunity for TCN to present its innovations and products to a wide very specific target audience:…
TCN manufactures and offers liquid dyes which allow the mass-coloration of epoxy resins. They are also suitable for solvent-borne varnishes, most resins, gels-coats and glues. Resistant to light and temperature, our NANV liquid dyes will allow you to obtain transparent and bright shades due to their high dyeing power. Our range includes 25 standard shades….
Today, you mainly use black to dye your PA12 field parts. Discover a wide range of colors by clicking on our color chart. Moreover, TCN develops tailor-made shades to satisfy your specific requirements. YOU WANT TO DISCOVER THE RESULT ON YOUR PARTS? Do not hesitate to contact us at peresse@color-tcn.com to get some free samples of…
For the first year, TCN was exhibiting at Formnext – international trade fair and conferences on additive technologies – in Frankfurt, Germany, from 2018, November 13rd to 16th. The opportunity for intensive exchanges of experience at the highest professional level. We warmly thank all the visitors who came to our booth, including some of our…
Christophe Mouty is the Business Developer at October71. Thanks to the technology of TCN, he is launching a unique gradient color for his 3D printing frames. We thank him for this testimonial! {:}
After Rapid’ Tech Erfurt and 3DPrint Lyon Shows on last June, TCN will be present at TCT Show which will be held on September 25th-26th-27th, 2018 in Birmingham (United Kingdom). The manufacturers and the service providers of the 3D Industry will present their latest innovations. TCN is your best partner in the development of your…
Our team will take a well-deserved vacation from : Friday, July 27th, 2018, in the evening. We shall be back from Monday, August 20th, 2018! We wish you a very beautiful summer as well as very good holidays! {:}
