Milliken to bring its full range of additive and colorants solutions to NPE 2024
Spartanburg, SC — Milliken & Company will bring its full range of additive and colorant solutions for polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) plastics to NPE 2024 on May 6-10, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. NPE: The Plastics Show is the largest plastics trade show in the Americas—drawing more than 55,000 leaders from more than 110 countries to explore plastic innovations, applications and collaborations. Milliken joins industry leaders for the five-day expo to explore novel and sustainable pathways for plastics, enabled in part by the company’s comprehensive polymer additive portfolio on display at booth 22071, South Hall.
“We look forward to NPE, as it’s an exciting opportunity to collaborate with the entire plastics value chain under one roof,” shares Milliken’s Global Vice President for Plastic Additives Wim Van de Velde. “Milliken offers a suite of performance-driven, sustainability enhancing products that support manufacturing and brand trends and help solve circularity challenges to make plastics a material of choice.”
Milliken works across the value chain to enable PP and PE formulations that make plastics more reusable, recyclable, and efficient without sacrificing performance. With a range of clarifier and nucleator agents, masterbatches, polymeric colorants, and viscosity and performance modifiers, Milliken’s portfolio helps its customers and brand owners achieve their own sustainability goals. At NPE 2024, Milliken will unveil two new solutions—Milliken UltraGuard 2.0 and Hyperform HPN 58ei. “NPE 2024 attendees will have a first look at two Milliken additive launches, with far-reaching sustainability benefits,” adds Van de Velde. “These two new additives join our portfolio centered on making smarter plastics.”
The latest UltraGuard 2.0 solution builds on our longstanding line of tailored masterbatches for PE to improve barrier performance in HDPE and LLDPE by up to 70%—subsequently supporting more mono-material packaging options and material downgauging. Hyperform HPN 58ei enhances performance for PP sheets and thermoformed parts to deliver improved optical performance, isotropic shrinkage and regrind quality and is FDA-approved for food packaging. Visitors can visit Milliken’s booth throughout NPE to learn more about these two products.
Complementing its overarching approach to responsible manufacturing processes and in alignment with the company’s 2025 Sustainability Goals and its near- and long-term net-zero targets, Milliken develops products that support its customers’ sustainability goals. Milliken partners with the value chain to create purposeful additive solutions that reduce resource consumption, enhance health and well-being, and solve circularity and end-of-life challenges. Solutions include:
Milliken’s Millad NX 8000 platform, a PP clarifying agent, can help lower the energy consumption and the cycle during the injection molding process—with UL-certified energy savings of up to 10%.
Milliken Hyperform HPN enhances the strength and rigidity of polypropylene, making it suitable for packaging applications—especially critical packaging for cleaning solutions, pharmaceuticals and food preservation containers. Hyperform HPN also enables enhanced process efficiency and dimensional control, which is critical for packaging and automotive applications, among others.
Milliken viscosity modifiers are increasing recycled polypropylene (rPP) performance and application opportunities by increasing the melt flow rate of pre- and post-consumer rPP.
Milliken UltraGuard solutions enhance the barrier performance of PE, offering more flexibility for converters to design their structures with a balance of properties and recyclability
Milliken Resist high-performance colorants are designed for high-temperature applications like electrical vehicle chargers and under-the-hood connectors, supporting increased demand for electrical vehicles and a shift toward a carbon-neutral world.
Milliken will present at three NPE sessions—An Inside Look at a Novel Purification Process for Recycling Polypropylene (PP) with PureCycle Technologies on Monday, May 6; Prioritizing Partnerships That Drive Circularity with The Recycling Partnership on Tuesday, May 7; and Teamwork to Make the Clean Work with PureCycle Technologies on Thursday, May 9. Milliken will also participate in Funcionamiento de los Plásticos Circulares: Usando Reemplazo entre Materiales para Alcanzar los Objetivos de Circularidad on Wednesday, May 8.