1/23/2009 | Coordenação de Comunicação

Kraton has been in the spotlight throughout the 21st Century focusing on new technology and applications that have revolutionized and shaped the SBC industry into what it is today. As the leading innovator for the industry, Kraton is charging into the future with new innovations that will provide customers world-wide with superior products and applications in:

Tie Layers
Offering the unique ability to band dissimilar materials such as barrier resins and polyolefins, creating the strength and flexibility needed for packaging applications such as stand up pouches and clear returnable packaging with the benefits of better flow characteristics for multi-layer films and more efficient processing methods;

PVC Alternative
A technology breakthrough with a material that has similar appearance and properties of PVC without the addition of plasticizers. Available in viscosities suited to blown and cast film processes, molding and other extrusion processes with the benefits of heat resistance necessary for sterilization processes, being compatible with polyolefins;

ERS Polymers
A new family of Kraton G Enhanced Rubber Segment (ERS) polymers that feature unique softer rubber segment and precision tailored polymer structures for improved compatibility with polypropylene, showing the benefits of enhanced clarity in polypropylene and a wide range of melt flow, being an alternative to plasticized PVC.

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