TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Solutions Polymer Reinforcement
Milliken & Company supports the plastics recycling industry with advanced polymer additives that allow for the increased use of recycled content by improving the properties of recycled polypropylene itself.
Milliken will be showcasing its broad portfolio at PRSE on Stand H21 during the Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2021, November 4 and 5 in Amsterdam.
At the show learn more from Milliken about the following products and initiatives:
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DeltaMax® Performance Modifiers for PP used by converters processing recycled polypropylene (rPP) or impact copolymer (ICP) resins
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A soon-to-be-launched concentrate used to create controlled rheology grades of recycled PP that improves the resin’s properties
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Partnership with PureCycle Technologies to purify recycled PP
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Engagement with HolyGrail 2.0, Europe’s Digital Watermark Project
Enhancing Impact Strength & Melt Flow
Milliken’s DeltaMax® Performance Modifiers for polypropylene help contribute to a circular economy by enhancing the impact strength and melt-flow properties of rPP resins, blends and PP impact copolymers.
DeltaMax® can raise melt flow by as much as five times while maintaining impact and stiffness properties. This allows converters to increase operating efficiencies and create more innovative part designs with easier flow through molds.
DeltaMax® technology is highly effective in modifying post-consumer and post-industrial recycled resins. It elevates impact strength and melt flow to the same levels as or better than those of virgin resin.
Concentrate to Create Controlled Rheology
The latest addition to the Milliken portfolio, a concentrate used to create controlled rheology (CR) grades of polypropylene that extends and improve the resin’s characteristics. Controlled rheology PP is produced by promoting controlled chain scission of PP (both virgin and recycled) to yield a product with a lower molecular weight which results in a higher melt flow index. The result is an easier, more consistent flow.
Partners for the Cause of Recycling
Milliken has ongoing work with PureCycle Technologies, which began early in 2019. PureCycle’s patented
recycling process, developed and licensed by Procter & Gamble Co., separates color, odor, and other contaminants from plastic waste feedstock to transform it into virgin-like PP.
Milliken, whose additives will play a critical role in reinvigorating recycled polypropylene, has formed an exclusive supply relationship with PureCycle to help solve the plastics end-of-life challenge.
Partnership for Plastic Sorting
Additionally, Milliken’s Chemical Division has joined the Digital Watermarks Project, a large-scale initiative testing the viability of digital watermarking technologies for the accurate sorting of plastics.
The project was part of HolyGrail 1.0, a pioneering initiative facilitated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation that brought together brand owners, retailers, recyclers, packaging producers and sorting technology providers from across the plastics value chain to investigate ways to improve the sorting of post-consumer plastics. The project is due to report on its findings in mid-2022.
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