Milliken brings global expertise to Middle East converters
at Arabplast 2013
Booth 7 D-100
Arabplast 2013
January 7 - 10, 2013, Dubai, UAE
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.
“The trend towards more downstream conversion within the Middle East is gaining momentum, and
Milliken has the global expertise, service support and additive innovations to help converters embrace
the opportunities that exist globally,” comments Sami T.K. Palanisami, Marketing and Sales Manager
Plastic Additives EMEA, Milliken.
At Arabplast 2013, visitors can experience Milliken’s on-going support for the region’s thermoformers
and injection molders in achieving high transparency in food and beverage containers while reducing
energy consumption. Milliken’s pioneering clarifying agent for PP, Millad® NX™ 8000, lets processors
produce parts with outstanding optics at lower processing temperature and shorter cycle times than is
possible with other clarifying agents. It is opening new doors for the use of lightweight PP with a glass-
like appearance in packaging applications such as drinks cups as well as kitchenware.
Milliken will also demonstrate the benefits of its nucleating agent Hyperform® HPN-600ei for better
transparency and excellent visual appearance, lightweighting, and PET/PS replacement in
thermoforming cups and trays. Parts made with PP containing Hyperform HPN-600ei have an appealing
fresh look, and the additive also enables improved output rates over some other conventional
nucleating agents.
With its nucleating agent Hyperform HPN-20E, Milliken addresses the specific import, handling and
storage challenges for Middle East PP producers using high levels of talc in Polypropylene grades. This
innovative additive is used at much lower addition rates, enabling PP producers to reduce inventory and
transport costs. At the same time, it offers molders a winning combination of isotropic shrinkage
characteristics with good physical property balance and crystallization effects to increase productivity
and part quality.
With an extensive global support network and market expertise, Milliken offers formulation and
technical assistance, and product trials to ensure material producers and converters can gain maximum
benefit from its solutions. Processors can increase production efficiency, meeting sustainability and
environmental considerations, going beyond current aesthetics and performance boundaries to boost
product appeal and differentiation.
For more information visit Milliken at Arabplast 2013 (Hall 7 Booth D-100).
About Milliken
Milliken is an innovation company that has been exploring, discovering, and creating ways to enhance
people’s lives since 1865. Working from our laboratories, application and development centers around
the world, our scientists and engineers create coatings, specialty chemicals, and advanced additive and
colorant technologies that transform the way we experience products from automotive plastics to
children's art supplies. With expertise across a breadth of disciplines that also includes floor covering
and performance materials, the people of Milliken work every day to add true value to people’s lives,
improve health and safety, and make this world more sustainable. For more information, visit
www.millikenchemical.com or www.milliken.com.
Millad and Hyperform are registered trademarks of Milliken & Company
NX is a trademark of Milliken & Company
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Millad® NX™ 8000, offers outstanding optics at low processing temperatures and cycle time reductions.
At Arabplast Milliken will also demonstrate the benefits of its nucleating agent Hyperform® HPN-600ei
for better transparency and performance, light weighting, and PET / PS replacement in thermoforming.
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