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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