11 Feb 2014
Milliken puts lightweight and sustainability in the spotlight at VDI Plastics in Automotive Engineering 2014
Ghent, Belgium - Milliken will present its innovative high performance reinforcing agent, Hyperform® HPR-803i and its Hyperform® HPN nucleating additives for polyolefins at the VDI's Plastics in automotive engineering conference 2014 in Mannheim, Germany. New application examples will highlight the weight-reduction benefits at Booth #19.
30 Oct 2013
Energy saving benefits of Millad® NX™ 8000 validated with UL approved label
Ghent, Belgium - The energy-saving benefits of Milliken's new generation clarifier Millad® NX™ 8000 for polypropylene (PP) have been validated by the independent organisation UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories). The validation qualifies Milliken and eventually its customers, from converters to brand owners, to use an Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) label to highlight the energy consumption reductions achieved with the use of Millad NX 8000 in a transparent PP product.
16 Oct 2013
Milliken and RPC promote the many benefits of PP for packaging applications
Ghent, Belgium - RPC Group, one of the world's leading suppliers of rigid plastics packaging, is choosing Clear PP for certain of its products to help it achieve both the high clarity packaging desired by consumers and the highest sustainability targets.
10 Sept 2013
K 2013 collaboration brings Clear Polypropylene to life
Ghent, Belgium - At K 2013 (16-23 October 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany), Kiefel, SML, Braskem and Milliken will combine their machine and material innovations to bring the powerful material substitution possibilities of Clear Polypropylene (PP) to life. Highly transparent, deep-draw cups produced live by Kiefel on its productivity-boosting systems will let visitors experience first-hand the exceptional high clarity and performance that can be achieved with Braskem's Inspire 224 PP containing Milliken's innovative clarifying agent, Millad® NX8000™.
10 Jun 2013
Sealed Air brings fresh clarity to lightweight Cryovac® PP chilled food packaging with Millad® NX™ 8000
Ghent, Belgium - Sealed Air Corporation is offering a range of lightweight PP trays and pots with high clarity for chilled foods thanks to Milliken's clarifying innovation Millad® NX™ 8000.
6 Jun 2013
Milliken puts clarity, aesthetics and sustainability in the spotlight at K 2013
Ghent, Belgium - Leading polyolefins additives supplier Milliken will greet K 2013 visitors with a full package of value-adding product innovations and services focused around the industry's priority themes of clarity & aesthetics, productivity improvement, property optimization, and sustainability.
17 May 2013
Milliken Files Lawsuits to Halt Intellectual Property Infringement
Ghent, Belgium - Milliken & Company today announced it has filed several lawsuits to protect the intellectual property embodied in its Millad® clarifying agents. The company is taking vigorous action against several companies that Milliken believes have infringed one or more of Milliken's patents through the sale of competitive 3,4 DMDBS products. In the lawsuits, Milliken will be seeking monetary damages and other appropriate remedies from the suppliers of these competitive 3,4 -DMDBS products.
13 May 2013
Polychim and Milliken take homopolymer PP performance for packaging applications to a new level
Ghent, Belgium - Polychim is setting a new benchmark in the performance of homopolymer polypropylene (PP) in packaging applications with the launch of a new thermoforming PP offering excellent aesthetics, high quality and faster throughput to converters.
30 Jan 2013
Renault-Nissan sponsors Luxus and Milliken for VDI conference
Ghent, Belgium - Technical plastics recycling and compounding company Luxus and plastics additive manufacturer Milliken have been sponsored by the Renault-Nissan alliance to speak at the next international VDI conference, 'Plastics in Automotive Engineering', 13-14th March 2013, Mannheim, Germany.
7 Jan 2013
Unipetrol RPA launches Mosten FT005 PP nucleated with Hyperform® HPN-600ei to up aesthetics and performance in thermoformed packaging
Litvinov, Czech Republic - Unipetrol RPA is passing on the clear benefits of collaboration to its packaging sector customers with a new low melt flow rate HPP grade based on Hyperform® HPN-600ei. The new development, Mosten FT005, significantly ups the aesthetics and processing performance of thermoformed rigid packaging, such as beverage cups, yoghurt pots and trays.
5 Nov 2012
Milliken brings global expertise to Middle East converters at Arabplast 2013
Ghent, Belgium - Additives expert Milliken will demonstrate its commitment to the development of the plastics processing sector in the Middle East with a full package of value-adding product innovations and service solutions on its stand at Arabplast 2013. The company's latest advances in polypropylene (PP) clarification and nucleation, implemented in close collaboration with resin producers, are creating innovative opportunities for Middle East converters to upgrade and replace existing materials to make them more competitive at home and on the global stage.
1 Oct 2012
Millad® NX™ 8000 clarifier adds energy-saving and clarity edge to next-generation TATREN® packaging grades
Ghent, Belgium - Slovnaft Petrochemicals has embraced the energy-saving and crystal-clear clarifying potential of Millad® NX™ 8000 clarifying agent to launch a new generation of transparent, high gloss, reactor made polypropylene random copolymers (PP) for low temperature processing of thin-wall rigid food packaging and storage.
