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20 Oct 2010
Pinnacle Polymers™ achieves peak brightness and improved aesthetics in new polypropylene grades featuring Milliken’s Millad® NX8000 clarifier
Ghent, Belgium – 20 October 2010 – Pinnacle Polymers™ LLC, a major polypropylene (PP) manufacturer based in Ridgefield, Conn., has reached new heights of aesthetics and quality by upgrading to Millad® NX8000 technology from Milliken, a division of Milliken & Company. Pinnacle’s two new PP3™ random copolymer grades offer customers superior aesthetics at an affordable price point. Besides giving housewares and other products a dramatically brighter and cleaner look, Pinnacle 5135C3 and 5155C3 resins enable shorter cooling times and a broader processing window, which can provide energy savings and cycle time reductions.
13 Oct 2010
HPI leads home organizer industry with brighter, clearer storage totes featuring Milliken’s Millad® NX8000 clarifier
Ghent, Belgium – 13 October 2010 – Home Products International (HPI), a major home organizer manufacturer, has taken the lead in meeting consumer demand for containers with an attractive, high-quality appearance. By upgrading to polypropylene (PP) clarified with Millad® NX8000 technology from Milliken, HPI created a successful new line of “Clears” storage totes featuring a bright, clean look. By utilizing clarified PP, an easily recycled, environmentally friendly plastic, HPI also addressed strong consumer interest in sustainable materials. Further, the company, which moulds the storage totes at its facility in Chicago, Ill., benefits from lower energy consumption and shorter cycle times made possible by Millad NX8000’s wider processing window.
Ghent, Belgium – 6 October, 2010 – Plastics processors intending to produce high-clarity polypropylene mouldings now have two compelling reasons for using grades containing Milliken’s next-generation clarifying agent, Millad® NX8000. Not only does it yield unparalleled transparency in injection- and blow-mouldings, but it has also now been proven to allow significant savings in energy consumption through reduced processing temperatures and lower cycle times.
Muttenz, September 29, 2010 - Clariant’s new initiative designed to support efforts by its customers in the paper industry to improve the sustainability of their own products and manufacturing processes will provide certified products, expertise and relevant safety data.
Ghent, Belgium – 1 September, 2010 – A Polish producer of cosmetic lotions is the first of a new wave of end-users of high added value products to take advantage of the outstanding optical properties achievable in extrusion-blow moulded polypropylene bottles through the use of Milliken’s next-generation clarifying agent, Millad® NX8000.
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