April 20, 2020 - Dow announced the addition of a revolutionary product, the innate TF biaxially stretched polyethylene resin, to its innate? Precision packaging resin family to meet the industry's demand for high performance, consumer convenience, and recyclability. The product has achieved the commercial feasibility goal of tf-bope film in packaging industry.
Compared with the traditional PE film, tf-bope film has stronger toughness, higher stiffness, better optical and printing properties, and has significant sustainability advantages, including the all PE structure which is more convenient for recycling.
More valuable advantages
Tf-bope film made of innate? TF resin has many performance advantages, which will benefit the whole industry chain:
·With high transparency, high gloss and other excellent optical properties
·Haze is only 1 / 5 of that of ordinary PE film
·Double impact strength and tensile modulus
·Provide three times puncture resistance and tensile strength
·Excellent resistance to rubbing cracks even at low temperature
·It is easy to tear and convenient to use
Compared with unidirectional stretched PE film, tf-bope film also has significant performance improvement in optical performance, film appearance, dart impact, pinhole resistance and other physical properties, which is more close to the requirements of soft packaging for shelf display effect and strict logistics and transportation test.
Sustainable packaging solutions
Innate? TF resin has unique physical properties, which can be replaced by materials to simplify or reduce the film structure, thus reducing the amount of packaging materials.
Tf-bope film can be directly used in the printing layer of packaging, and can also be used in combination with other PE functional layers to realize the packaging of all PE materials, so as to make it easier to recycle and improve the sustainability.
Multiple applications are on the market
Through cooperation with partners in the industrial chain, such as Guangdong Degang film new material Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Caihua Packaging Group Co., Ltd., Shantou Nancheng packaging material industry Co., Ltd. and Fujian Kaida Group Co., Ltd., Dow realized the commercial application and production of new tf-bope in the field of all PE pillow bag, recyclable self-supporting packaging and liquid packaging self-supporting bag Production, including rice bags, pet food packaging, heavy packaging bags, frozen food packaging and liquid vertical bags.
With the continuous development of cooperation, more applications are coming to market. "As one of the world's leading suppliers of packaging materials solutions, Dow expects to work closely with all kinds of partners in the industry chain to promote the promotion and application of innovative and sustainable materials in the packaging industry, and promote the packaging industry in a high-speed and healthy way development. Innate? TF resin has the potential to reduce consumption and recycle, and has provided a solution for waste plastics. We believe that we can explore more advantages together. "
These successes are the result of more than a decade of hard work. Wu Chang, technical director of Asia Pacific region of Dow packaging and specialty plastics business department, added: "our R & D team in Asia Pacific region goes deep into the packaging industry and has insight into the market pain. This revolutionary product breaks through the limitations of traditional PE products, and once again proves Dow's keen insight and foresight in the market, as well as its strong R & D strength. "
Since its first launch in 2017, Dow's tf-bope resin has won three awards: the Edison Invention Gold Award, the R & D 100 Innovation Award, and the Jung Technology Innovation Award.
Source: new materials online