Dow introduces INNATE TF Polyethylene Resins for Tenter Frame Biaxial Orientation – Move towards Sustainable Packaging

04 August 2020: Dow has recently launched an innovative and revolutionary brand extension to the family of INNATE Precision Packaging Resins. The TF-BOPE film can be used directly as the printed layer of the packaging, allowing a combination of PE functional layers to achieve an all-PE structure, making it more convenient for recycling and increasing the sustainability quotient.

Collaborating with a variety of value chain members, such as Guangdong Decro Film New Materials Co., Ltd, CaiHua, NanCheng and KAIDA Group, commercial applications including all-PE pillow pouches, recyclable SUP packaging, and liquid product SUPs are now in the marketplace. Applications include rice bags, pet food bags, heavy-duty shipping sacks, liquid detergent pouches, and others.

According to the company, the TF-BOPE film made with INNATE TF Polyethylene Resins for Tenter Frame Biaxial Orientation has higher mechanical properties and material rigidity, better optical and printing performance, and offers considerable sustainability advantages, including the potential for all-PE structures for recyclability.

TF-BOPE films made using INNATE TF resins demonstrate many impressive properties valued across the value chain. INNATE TF Polyethylene Resins for Tenter Frame Biaxial Orientation offer distinctive physical properties which can enable material substitution, film layer elimination, and/or down gauging, to reduce overall packaging materials.

Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of Dow, offers broad product lines and industry expertise to deliver high performing technologies for end use markets in food packaging, personal hygiene, infrastructure, consumer goods and transportation.

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