PolyMirae Company Ltd, a joint venture of LyondellBasell and Daelim, has announced the development of a new transparent PP resin, Clyrell RC5056.
The new resin offers high heat resistance needed for sterilisation and adds to the range of materials used in food container applications such as baby bottles.
“Clyrell RC5056 exhibits high gloss, high transparency and high heat-resistance and offers appropriate flowability for various processing methods such as injection molding, injection stretch blow molding (ISBM) and injection blow molding (IBM)," says GY Ha, AD/Innovation Manager of PolyMirae.
"Moreover, the resin is recyclable and meets FDA food contact cooking condition requirements.”
Inherent characteristics of Clyrell RC5056 include its high chemical inertness, which addresses a need in food containers requiring high durability and transparency such as baby bottles, high-end transparent containers, water purifiers in refrigerators and water containers.
In addition, producers of high-end cosmetic containers and electronic products may also find use for Clyrell RC5056.
“The resin has very low haze value of 9 compared to 18 of the other standard polypropylene random copolymers and offers the benefit of potential cycle time reduction by 10 per cent under the appropriate operational conditions," Ha says.
"Clyrell RC5056 is easy to process and provides an attractive cost/performance ratio.”
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