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The need to produce molded plastic components for automotive interior applications in a variety of colors, cost-effectively, while maintaining an automaker's exacting color standards is a challenging task. The traditional approach of using pre-colored - and often custom-colored - materials requires a processor to purchase and inventory a high volume of product in order to buy at a competitive price. The other option - of adding color at the press - can also be challenging if the base material's color is prone to vary from batch to batch. Recognizing this situation, a compounder has worked on one solution to help overcome this problem by developing methods for delivering compounded polypropylene resin with a higher level of base-color consistency than was available in the past.