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Lower-Cost COC Grade for Flexible Packaging

Ticona Technical Polymers introduces a new, more cost-effective grade of cyclic olefin copolymer for packaging applications.

Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, has introduced a new, more cost-effective grade of Topas® COC (cyclic olefin copolymer) for packaging applications. This second-generation COC, Topas 8007F-100, provides a broad processing window and an excellent cost-performance ratio as a blending component in polyethylene based packaging films to add stiffness, thermoformability, controlled tear, improved sealing and antiblock characteristics.

Topas 8007F-100 provides the same basic properties as other Topas grades at lower cost. Although its optical properties are not at the same ultimate level as other Topas packaging grades, they have proven satisfactory in many applications in which Topas 8007F-100 was blended with a wide range of polyolefins. Best results have been achieved with LLDPE (including metallocene and plastomer LLDPEs), LDPE, HDPE and blends of these polymers.

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"With Topas 8007F-100, we are targeting cost-sensitive packaging applications using COC blended into polyethylene as a performance enhancer," says Bernd Sparenberg, Global Marketing Manager. "In most cases, COC is used as a minor component at a concentration of 10 to 20 percent to customize overall film properties in applications such as pouches, forming webs and coated paper."

Topas 8007F-100 complies with US and EU food contact regulations and has been evaluated in numerous commercial programs. Positive customer feedback received in these programs paved the way for the introduction of Topas 8007F-100 into the flexible packaging market.

The unique properties of Topas COC contribute to its use in many packaging applications and markets, including flexible food packaging, blister packs, medical overwraps, pouches, forming webs and shrink films, as well as rigid packaging applications that include medical bottles, vials and syringes.

You can find more information on Topas 8007F-100 and other Topas grades, with: Ticona Technical Polymers

Ticona Technical Polymers is one of the businesses of Celanese Corporation. Ticona produces and markets a broad range of engineering polymers at production, compounding and research facilities in the USA, Germany and Brazil. Find information about Celanese Corporation.



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