It doesn’t always have to be black: the Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation (MEP) brings color into play in manufacturing MID components. Under the brand name Xantar, MEP has brought individually colorable LDS plastics based on PC and PC/ABS onto the market.
 
Various primary colors can be mixed by adding other dyes to create any color shade. The colored MEP plastics have LDS additives and offer numerous possibilities with their special material characteristics. Due to its structure, the Xantar LDS 3723 PC/ABS plastic granulate is primarily conceived for the design of enclosures, while Xantar LDS 3733 PC is optimally matched to antenna construction.

Along with MEP, other manufacturers offer a series of LDS plastics. SABIC also has colored materials in its portfolio, as reported in the June edition of the LDS newsletter.