MATERIALS: Clarified PP Grades for Packaging, Housewares, Cups

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Six new clarified PP grades for injection molding, blow molding, and thermoforming are available from Houston-based Phillips 66.
New Product Announcements Published: 1/1/2013

ADDITIVES: Liquid Colors for Trouble-Free Blow Molding

New liquid vehicle technology from Clariant Masterbatches, Holden, Mass., is designed to eliminate problems that have prevented wider use of liquid color in extrusion blow molding of polyolefins.
New Product Announcements Published: 12/28/2012

ADDITIVES: Highly Concentrated Black Masterbatches for Automotive

Americhem Inc., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has launched a new line of highly concentrated, low-aniline, nigrosine black nylon masterbatches suited to automotive under-hood and other applications where retention of physical properties is important.
New Product Announcements Published: 11/29/2012

MATERIALS: Biobased PHA Enhances Processing & Performance of PVC

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Metabolix, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., has developed a series of biobased PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) copolymers that act as plasticizers, impact modifiers, and processing aids for rigid and flexible PVC.
New Product Announcements Published: 11/3/2012

ADDITIVES: Expanded Line of PVC Lubricants

Struktol Company of America, Stow, Ohio, has expanded its V-Series line of lubricant additives for rigid PVC calendering and sheet or profile extrusion.
New Product Announcements Published: 11/3/2012

ADDITIVES: ‘Drop In’ Alternatives to Montan Wax

Aimed primarily at calendered PVC sheet for blister packaging.
New Product Announcements Published: 3/1/2012

ADDITIVES: Nylon Lubricant Cuts Die Buildup

A new lubricant from Struktol Co. of America, Stow, Ohio, is designed to reduce compound viscosity, significantly improve metal release, and enhance dispersion of fillers and reinforcements in nylon 6 and 66.
New Product Announcements Published: 2/1/2012

ADDITIVES: Masterbatches for Foaming Fluoropolymer Wire & Cable

Cable Components Group, Pawcatuck, Conn., has launched an economical FEP-based pellet masterbatch to chemically foam insulation for plenum cable.
New Product Announcements Published: 12/28/2011

ADDITIVES: Modifier Boosts PLA Melt Strength

A new melt-strength enhancer in masterbatch form increases the pull force that can be applied to molten polylactic acid (PLA) by 300% to 500%. This makes possible higher throughputs in PLA extrusion and thermoforming while reducing scrap rates, says...
New Product Announcements Published: 12/28/2011

ADDITIVES: Do-It-Yourself Liquid Coloring

Processors can now establish their own in-house liquid-coloring program with new offering from Riverdale Color, Perth Amboy, N.J.
New Product Announcements Published: 12/28/2011