Polyolefins additives supplier Milliken and Company will showcase innovative ways to enhance the look of polypropylene (PP) products along with solutions to protect the contents of PET packaged food, beverage and consumer products at Arabplast 2015.
These new additives, used primarily for thermoformed, injection molded and extruded applications, offer new features to improve the performance and aesthetics of customers' end-products. It also helps in increasing overall sustainability.
The company has also come up with a new technology for the PET segment that offers a UV protection performance standard for packaged contents. ClearShield colourless UV absorbers that have been approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) helps in overcoming deficiencies of traditional technologies like unwanted colour, migration, bloom and plate-out.
Some of the solutions that the company will be showcasing are Millad NX 8000 which is considered to be the new standard in PP transparency, Millad NX 8000 clarifier which provides clarity in PP and enables it to compete with PET, PS and other glass clear materials used for sheet and thermoformed applications like pots, trays, clamshells and containers.
Apart from that, Millad NX 8500E clarified PP offers lowest density and weight when compared to other extrusion blow molding (EBM) plastics materials and glass.
Speaking about these new solutions, Milliken key account manager ME and Europe Samir El Khoury said: "Milliken additives upgrade the physical and optical properties of PP to new standard levels that allow PP producers to improve their product offering while enabling innovative converters and brand owners to differentiate in the marketplace.
"Arabplast provides an ideal platform for us to explore these possibilities with the region's PP producers, as well as to reach emerging converting and food processing segments investing in new technologies to respond to growing market demand."
Some of the other products to be displayed are impact copolymers for bucket packaging and deep drawn thermoformed cups.
Image: Millad NX 8000 helps in enhancing PP transparency. Photo: courtesy of Milliken and Company.
