Styron announced today the commercial availability of its transparent grade for food packaging converters in Europe. STYRON™ C-TECH Polystyrene is the new transparent High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS), an extension of the STYRON A-TECH™ family of polystyrene products.
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Beck Automation, Oberengstringen (CH), labels a transparent polystyrene (PS) thin wall cup. 3,3 seconds cycle time per shot for 4 cups is the measuring rod set by the IML automations experts from Switzerland.
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An innovation project has paved the way to BASF’s success in using a conventional stretch blow-molding machine to create the lightest half-liter polystyrene bottle ever: it weighs a mere 7.5 grams.
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SCHWÄLBCHEN AG, a dairy company in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, is now using beverage bottles made of BASF’s Polystyrene.
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CRYOVAC BDF® for whole birds is a shrink overwrap packaging under modified atmosphere combining a thin, anti-fog, barrier shrink film with a variety of trays. This technology offers the store-wrapped look with the added bonuses of enhanced branding, longer shelf-life and leak proof closure.
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Right in time for the K 2007, BASF joined forces with ALPLA, one of the world’s largest manufacturer of plastic beverage bottles, to come up with a bottle for milk and yoghurt beverages using impact resistant Polystyrene (PS-I). This demonstrates that Polystyrene is an inexpensive alternative when it comes to packaging for this sector.
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BASF’s light stabilizer Uvinul® 4050 H is the first monomeric HALS worldwide to obtain a Food Contact Notification (FCN) for the use in plastics with food-contact. The FCN is granted by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Uvinul® 4050 H may be used in polypropylene, polystyrene, styrene copolymers and acrylonitrile copolymers (including ABS) that come into contact with foodstuffs. Applications for Uvinul® 4050 H include woven fiber sacks such as bulk bags, flour sacks and corn (maize) sacks, electrical equipment such as kitchen equipment, thermoformed packaging such as yoghurt beakers and disposable cutlery.
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