Who are we ?

History

Founded at the end of 2003, due to the France Ouest region’s need to quickly respond to the food packaging market’s growing needs, SAS CAP OUEST was set up in Brittany, in Morbihan near Vannes.
CAP OUEST started trading in Marzan in 2004. It had 4 employees at the time. It moved to a bigger building in Arzal (10 employees) in 2010. This was to meet environmental norms, due to its increase in size. In 2014, the company reached its first goal of recording a 3M€ turnover. It now had 17 employees. Our story is still being written now. We are bale to offer our skills to people and businesses in the rest of France and abroad. In 2015, a commercial and judicial reorganisation led to the creation of Elixance. CAP OUEST became Elixance Masterbatches for plastic colouring and additives, and Elixance Polymers was created to develop bio-polymers. To house these companies, and meet environmental norms (ICPE), a new factory is being built in Elven. It will be operational in 2016.

Philosophy

Knowing and being close to your client means you provide a better product or service. This means we always have to perform well, which is where our motto comes from : Elixance, inspired by performance.
Our performance philosophy is to use all our skills to serve the customer, and maintain our motivation every day.

Skills

• Colour and colorimetry : measuring colour, colorimetric spaces, differences in colour
• Chemistry of pigments : molecules (organic and inorganic), molecular structures (symmetrical, plane, crystallography), the origin of colour in pigments (chromophore and auxochrome groups, Bravais networks), technical properties (heat stability, fastness light/weather), warpage, migration), colouristics (shade, transparency, colour strength) and toxicology (Reach).
• Colouring of most thermoplastics : polyolefins (PEBD, PEHD, PP), stryenics (PS, ABS, SAN, ASA, MABS), vinyls (supple and rigid PVC), elastomers (TPE, TPU, EVA), acrylics (PMMA), engineering polymers (PET, PBT, PA, PC, POM, PEI, PSU, PES, PPS)
• Chemistry of plastic additives : choosing additives according to breakdown mechanisms and stabilisers
• Masterbatch material and knowledge : recipe, mixing, Feeder, twin screw extruder (screw profile, temperature profile, wetting, dispersion, distribution), pelletizer.

Environment and Certificates

Company Social responsibility (RSE):
Elixance obtained a Silver rating from Ecovadis Elixance has chosen a HQE site (High Quality Environment) for its new industrial park Elixance has put in place a ISO 9001 quality check.