Precision packaging resins with stiffness-toughness balance

The Dow Chemical Company’s Packaging and Specialty Plastics business has introduced INNATE™ Precision Packaging Resins, a new family of resins that offers the performance levels to help customers address some of today’s most challenging packaging performance gaps. Created from a patented molecular catalyst coupled with advanced process technology, INNATE™ enable customers to explore new packaging opportunities due to their unmatched stiffness-toughness balance, processing ease and improved sustainability profiles.

“INNATE™ resins were developed as a result of many discussions with converters and brand owners and careful analysis of the market trends,” said Diego Donoso, business president for Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, “We’re excited about what INNATE™ will enable in future packaging design.”

Added David Parrillo, global R&D director for Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, “The chemistry behind INNATE™ resins allows customers to control properties like never before to create a new standard of performance through a combination of film stiffness, toughness and processability, all from one packaging resin.”  

INNATE™ will help define new market spaces and create new categories for everything from flexible food packaging to heavy-duty industrial shipping sacks. The resins were developed from a breakthrough, patented catalyst and  process technology and gives brand owners, retailers and converters what they’re demanding.