TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Solutions Additives for Packaging Formulations and Transparency Surface Modification
Milliken & Company will feature a growing array of partnerships and innovative additive technologies aimed at moving the circular economy forward during Pack Expo International 2022. At its booth (#LU-8840), Milliken will show how leveraging creative innovation, trusted expertise and collaboration across the value chain has helped the company develop solutions that can make plastics more reusable, recyclable and efficient.
Milliken offers customers opportunities to achieve sustainability goals through light-weighting, upgrading recycled content, conserving energy, simplifying recycling with mono-materials, and reducing carbon footprint via inter-material replacement of less-sustainable resins.
Collaborations to Advance Circular Economy
Milliken has engaged with many organizations in purposeful collaborations that include its ongoing partnership with PureCycle Technologies, whose patented technology turns recycled polypropylene (PP) into virgin-like material. By participating in these industry relationships, Milliken is helping to advance the circular economy through chemistry—part of the company’s 2025 sustainability goals.
At Pack Expo International 2022 Milliken will exhibit:
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Millad® NX® 8000 ECO, a clarifying agent for PP that enables faster production rates and reduced energy use. This product is certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to provide an average energy savings of 10 percent during the injection molding process
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NX® UltraClear™ concentrates for PP, which replace the milky appearance of standard PP with high clarity and gloss for packaging applications. In addition to easy recyclability, NX® UltraClear™ PP is lighter in weight, consumes less energy and produces lower emissions vs. other clear packaging alternatives
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DeltaMax® performance modifiers for PP impact copolymers (ICPs), which enable an improved balance of material properties and optimize processing efficiencies. INVISTA, a PP resin manufacturer, uses DeltaMax® modifiers to produce a new ICP for thin-wall injection molded (TWIM) food packaging. In this material, DeltaMax® modifiers deliver superior impact strength, high melt flow and good stiffness simultaneously
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Hyperform® HPN® performance additives for PP, which deliver an improved balance of stiffness, impact resistance and appearance while reducing energy use. Hyperform® HPN® additives are certified by UL to enable 5-8 percent energy savings when used as a nucleator for TWIM container lids and similar PP applications
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UltraGuard™ Solutions, which enable downgauging to reduce material usage and part weight while improving barrier properties in polyethylene (PE). These enhancements allow designers to create more products with mono-materials to facilitate recycling
Contribution to Numerous Industry-spanning Initiatives
With a focus on the future, Milliken is developing new solutions that will enable the entire industry to increase circularity, reduce raw material and energy usage, and raise the percentage of plastics that are recycled. The company contributes its expertise to numerous industry-spanning initiatives.
These include the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, The Recycling Partnership, the Association of Plastic Recyclers, the HolyGrail 2.0 project to improve the sorting of waste plastics via digital watermarks, and the RecyClass recycled-content certification program for packaging.
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The plastic circularity challenge is solvable, and we’re confident that collaborating with partners and customers will accelerate success faster than anyone would believe.” said Paul Kearns, sustainable development manager, Plastic Additives, Milliken Chemical. “
We invite attendees to meet with us at Pack Expo International and learn how Milliken chemistry is advancing sustainability for plastics.”
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