Dupont flaunts its collaboration sky theme
Collaboration was the theme of Dupont’s participation at Interpack this year, as it shared how interdisciplinary collaboration with customers and other market-leading players can open up multiple possibilities for increasing the functionality and attractiveness of plastic packaging materials and components, while at the same time reducing both the industry’s ecological footprint and the unnecessary waste of food.
14 May 2014 | By PrintWeek India
Dupont flaunts its collaboration sky theme
The company has focussed on topics that include thinner multi-layer barrier films for lidding applications and thermoformed trays developed in collaboration with Reifenhauser Kiefel Extrusion, based in Worms, Germany. A new Apet-based Dupont Appeel high performance is used for the production of PA-based lidding films, which combine high-barrier results with good printability.
The other product with collaboration with Reifenhauser is the special grade packaging polymer, Dupont Surlyn. DuPont and Kuhne Anlagenbau of Sankt Augustin, Germany, have cooperated to extend the field of application of the TripleBubble process for the production of biaxially stretched films.
In close collaboration with Braskem, the world’s leading producer of biopolymers, DuPont is developing renewably sourced tie-resins and polymer modifiers to extend the existing range of the DuPont Bynel and DuPont Fusabond resins. For this purpose, DuPont will use Braskem’s renewably sourced polyethylene (PE) to produce drop-in alternatives which either meet or exceed the performance of the company’s conventional petroleum-based products and are fully recyclable in PE waste streams.
Dupont has also collaborated with Oriol & Fontanel of France to test its Surlyn 3D textile overmolding technology and according to Dupont has opened up new possibilities for applications in the cosmetic and design sector.
“We wish to bring value to the packaging industry, but as a material manufacturing company, we believe that we cannot do it alone, hence we need to bring all the value chain partners together including machine manufacturers, designers, customers, brand owners, together. That is why we built a concept this concept of collaboration sky,” said Nilgun Turan, marketing communications manager, Europe for packaging and industrial polymers at Dupont. “When we discuss packaging in different parts of the world, be it India, Africa or Europe, we try and see that the consumers get value. And what unites us is the sky we live under.”
Besides, Dupont’s new Entira EP compatibilisers showcased at Interpack lowers the barrier for the material recycling of packaging. “Even additions of only small quantities of around 4% to the regrind of inherently incompatible packaging polymers make for a more economical and efficient re-compounding process,” concluded Nilgun.
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