Milliken & Company, a leading polyolefins additives supplier, is set to welcome polypropylene (PP) producers, converters and brand owners attending Arabplast 2015 with innovative ways to enhance the attractiveness of PP for consumer, industrial and medical applications.

The firm will also showcase a solution to protect the contents of PET packaged food, beverage and consumer products, said a estaminet.

Milliken’s additives will offer multiple advantages that improve the value, performance and aesthetics of customers’ end-products.

It will enable PP producers to process polypropylene materials with shorter cycle times and advanced physical properties, while creating new opportunities for product differentiation in end-use markets.

For the PET segment, Milliken will offer a novel technology that allows a new UV protection performance standard for packaged contents.

At Arabplast 2015, Milliken will highlight additives for PP used for thermoformed, injection molded and extruded applications. It includes   Millad NX 8000, the new standard in PP transparency; Hyperform HPN for PP nucleation, for consistent high quality products and faster processing; and UV protection, the new performance standard for PET packaging.

Samir El Khoury, key account manager ME and Europe, Milliken, said: “Milliken additives upgrade the physical and optical properties of PP to new standard levels that allow PP producers to improve their product offering while enabling innovative converters and brand owners to differentiate in the marketplace.

“Arabplast provides an ideal platform for us to explore these possibilities with the region’s PP producers, as well as to reach emerging converting and food processing segments investing in new technologies to respond to growing market demand.” - TradeArabia News Service