SABIC’s Thermoforming Portfolio Successfully Supports Customers in Meeting their Design and Awareness Challenges

SABIC is continuously looking for new solutions that meet the requirements of our customers along the complete value chain.

22 Apr 2010 --- Danish converter Færch Plast, a SABIC customer for several years now, is using SABIC PP materials to develop new product solutions for its customers in the field of food packaging. (Modified Atmosphere Packaging). One of Færch Plast’s key challenges is to develop packaging that is friendlier for the environment without compromising on technical requirements and trendy design. Færch Plast is able to meet these requirements by using SABIC’s latest PP range for Thermoforming.

“Our customers are looking for lightweight packaging with an eye-catching design and an excellent impact. By using the SABIC PP range for Thermoforming we can meet and even surpass these expectations, thus supporting and improving our customers’ brand awareness,”says Merete Rosendahl, Development Manager, Færch Plast.

As well as the appearance of packaging, its “green” aspect is becoming increasingly important for consumers, more and more of whom are consciously choosing to buy environmentally friendly products and packaging. SABIC understands this trend and has designed the homopolymer grade SABIC PP 527K to meet these requirements. “SABIC PP 527K opens up new down gauging opportunities and improves the conversion economics which results in a considerably reduced carbon footprint for our customers,”says Tjerk Lenstra, SABIC Technical Marketing. “This new generation of SABIC PP for thermoforming offers converters down gauging possibilities of up to 10-15% which provides them with significant material and energy savings. Without compromising on quality and safety, SABIC’s PP grades are the product of choice when it comes to sustainable production and consumption.”
 
SABIC’s broad PP product portfolio consisting of homopolymers, impact copolymers and random polymers is widely applied within the thin wall packaging industry. “At SABIC we not only understand the challenges of converters but also the key drivers of their customers, the brand owners,”continues Lenstra. “Specifiers and converters such as Færch Plast demand tailor made solutions that fit with their market strategy and our portfolio can fulfil both their demands.”
 
SABIC is continuously looking for new solutions that meet the requirements of our customers along the complete value chain. “We are a value driven partner, supporting our customers’ success by providing them with material solutions that respond to the market trends in plastic packaging, be they PP, PE, PET or PS, ” explains Lenstra.