Clariant at CHINAPLAS 2016: Emphasis on local tailored support for Greater China and South East Asia

Clariant offered CHINAPLAS 2016 visitors insight into the Value for People with its local focus to the region – from product innovations centered on the specific needs of its plastics processors and product developers, to new on-the-ground investments to progress as part of Clariant’s commitment to becoming a China Insider.

 

Clariant’s tailored support for Greater China and South East Asia’s plastics and related market segments was reflected at CHINAPLAS via its new products, extensive portfolios, and pioneering concepts and solutions from its Additives, Masterbatches and Pigments Business Units. All are aimed at addressing the trend in the region for high quality, high performance and safe use for consumers – both domestic and worldwide - and a move towards more sustainable production.

 

Featured highlights for the plastics industry at this year’s event focused on the major regional manufacturing segment E&E, as well as packaging, automotive and general plastics applications.

 

Additives to make applications more environmentally sustainable, with improved performance functionality, safety and ease of processing are presented. CHINAPLAS 2016 serves as fitting venue for the following products from Clariant:

 

> New Exolit® OP 945 halogen-free flame retardant for flexible printed circuit boards which provides a step-forward for the E&E industry’s miniturization goals, responding to the segment need for safe and effective flame retardant protection for thin parts and adhesive layers. It passes UL 94 V-0 and VW1 tests and provides good electrical and mechanical properties.

 

> CHINAPLAS 2016 marks a new step in the global roll-out of AddWorks®, the Clariant brand of tailor-made and easy-to-feed plastic additives solutions. Each AddWorks addresses specific needs in various segments of the plastics industry – such as Agriculture, Automotive & Transportation, Packaging and Textile & Fibers. Each AddWorks solution combines Clariant’s expertise in additive chemistry with application technology.

 

> At CHINAPLAS, Clariant is launching two AddWorks solutions specifically to support China and SEA’s flexible packaging film industry – AddWorks PKG 902 to increase the recycled content without loss of film quality or production line efficiency, and AddWorks LXR 408, a long-lasting anti-static solution. These two solutions apply to BOPP, cast PP or PE blown film flexible packaging applications. Both are aiming at optimizing the flexible film unit cost structure through quality improvements and raw material savings.

 

> Launch of new grade Licocene® PE 3101 TP as a nucleating agent for expanded polystyrene (EPS) applications. Licocene PE 3101 TP is a metallocene polyethylene (PE) homopolymer that has a high degree of crystallinity and low molecular weight distribution. It acts therefore as an efficient and cost effective cell regulating nucleating agent in EPS polymerization.

 

>Clariant has extended its range of low halogen organic pigments and polymer soluble dyes to now offer two of the very few colorants that are stable in polyamide applications and meet specifications for the halogen levels of the electronics industry. Polymer soluble dye Solvaperm® Red 2G-LHC and pigment PV Fast® Orange 6RL-LHC are opening up color choice in the E&E industry. PV Fast® Orange 6RL is a strong orange pigment with high performance in terms of good temperature stability and stability in polyamide applications. It is ideal for power tools, circuit breakers and power plugs.

 

> Clariant is improving product safety and letting consumers enjoy long-lasting bright colors for plastic products through its high-performing colorants based on a unique lead chromate-free pigment - PV Fast® Yellow H4G. It has a very bright shade, high light and weather fastness. The pigment is FDA approved and compliant with the Chinese National Standard GB9685.

 

> New Polysynthren® Black H – a pure and clean black shade with novel recycling benefits - for engineering resins and transparent PET applications. Polysynthren Black H is fully Infra Red transparent, allowing precise sorting of black materials during recycling. It is ideal for achieving a transparent grey shade for motorcycle windscreens in PMMA or PC, for example.

 

> Clariant has recently extended support for pigment customers in the region with investment in a state-of-the-art Technical Center for Plastics Applications at its Shanghai location.

 

> Global manufacturing investment for masterbatches and specialty compounds for engineering and high-temperature resins to improve availability for customers. Clariant’s CHF 7.5 million + investments are earmarked for plants in Shanghai, Singapore and two plants in USA. In Shanghai, Clariant will implement the full range of equipment and procedures required for manufacturing small-lot pre-colored compounds thereby providing a more complete portfolio of solutions to customers. The new production lines and associated capabilities are expected to be in place by end of 2016.

 

> Shanghai application laboratory investment: following recent upgrades to its automotive laboratory, Clariant is currently adding technical capabilities which will also support its activities in specialty additives and in engineering and high temperature polymer applications.