Plastics for Eye Catching Packaging Applications

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2007-05-14 News Release

Environmentally friendly clear plastics, styrene-butadiene copolymer resins are a cost effective high performance packaging material.

Styrolux* 3G46 is the new addition to BASF’s trademark portfolio of clear styrene-butadiene copolymers (SBC). Styrolux 3G46 offers a unique combination of outstanding clarity, exceptional toughness, low density and is a environmentally friendly plastics – resulting in a cost effective high-performance packaging alternative to PVC and PET packaging films. Launched last year in Europe, the product is now commercially available in NAFTA, and can make your selection for a superior packaging material that much easier.

Styrolux 3G46 is used for blister packaging and other visible packaging needs in the electronic, personal care, medical, and consumer markets and in addition it will also deliver excellent results in blown-film line extrusion, injection molding, extrusion blow molding and plastics compounding applications. The following benefits make Styrolux 3G46 an excellent choice in eye-catching applications.

BASF offers new highly transparent styrene-butadiene plastics for eye-catching packaging applications - Styrolux 3G46 (SBC). Click Here for larger image. photo: BASF

Benefits of Styrolux 3G46 include:

- Excellent clarity, toughness and stiffness
- Supports Sustainability Goals
- Contains no chlorides, halogens or plasticizers
- Improved Cycle times
- Easy to cut
- Easy to process
- FDA registered
- Cost-effective

Styrolux is BASF’s trademark for a portfolio of clear styrene-butadiene copolymers used in plastics injection molding and extrusion thermoplastic applications that offer outstanding clarity, exceptional toughness and low density for packaging materials. Styrolux is used for medical applications, food service products; such as, thermoformed clear drinking cups and plates, shrink labels, film wrap, toys and household appliances. Styroclear* is a line of injection-molding resins for premium-quality, clear garment hangers.

* Styrolux and Styroclear are registered trademarks of BASF.

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