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SIBUR achieves new applications for packaging of polypropylene
15/04/2011
on April 19, 2011
Petrochemical Enterprise Sibiur uses the clarificante agent Millad NX 8000 of Milliken to obtain new grades of highly transparent polypropylene that has begun to introduce in the market of transparent materials for packaging.
According to Sibur, the Russian market of plastic products is currently one of the most dynamic in the country, and the demand for attractive and profitable packaging led to food, chemical products and cosmetics is constantly growing. The company is the largest producer of polypropylene in Russia and the first in the country to offer clarified PP homopolymers of high quality.
Sibur analysts consider that clarified PP will find market segments such as the storage of food, household, household appliances, baby bottles, bottles of water, cosmetics and jars, offices and cardboar.
The company has already produced a pilot of the first degree of clarified PP, a homopolymer quantities and will begin production on a large scale before the end of June. The initial production will amount to 500 tonnes per year. SIBUR hopes to expand its range of products of PP by adding various homopolymers and clarified random copolymer.
