Packaging
Food packaging and closures typically need excellent sealing, low extractables and long shelf life. In addition, manufacturers of food packaging and closures often require materials that are clear or brightly colored to attract consumer attention. To learn how PolyOne GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers can provide value to your packaging application, contact us today.
Advantages
Specialized thermoplastic elastomers offer unique solutions for packaging applications.
- Excellent bond to a wide variety of plastic substrates
- High quality look and feel
- Excellent chemical and environmental resistance
- Good UV stability
- Very low taste and odor
- High abrasion resistance
- Compliance with NSF Standards 51 and 61
- Recyclable
Applications include
Fatty Food Contact Applications
GLS has recently developed several Versaflex™ TPE grades that meet both U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements under 21 CFR 177.2600 and European Union (EU) requirements under the 82/711/EEC directive. By selecting these high-performance GLS materials, which have passed stringent extraction tests, manufacturers can accelerate final product compliance and improve consumer safety.
Caps and Closures
GLS TPEs are an ideal solution for both the inside and outside of cap applications. For inside the cap / closure, GLS TPEs provide enhanced gasketing and slip properties, meeting exceptional seal performance requirements while maintaining easy-open characteristics. Outside the cap, the ability to design a molded-in grip makes it easy to produce senior friendly closures. From isotonic beverages to wine and spirits, GLS can provide solutions to you most demanding cap and closure programs.
Bottles
GLS TPEs can enhance the interaction between package and consumer in coextruded blow molding. This first-of-its-kind innovation allows designers to add the tactile feel and aesthetics of TPEs to HDPE containers and packaging while keeping costs down and supporting environmental goals. GLS and Kautex Machines, a leader in extrusion blow-molding equipment, jointly developed a solution for co-extruding an ultra-thin outer layer of translucent, customized Dynalloy™ TPE onto recycled or virgin HDPE resin.
Dispensing Valves
Providing a thermoplastic solution to a market whose needs are traditionally met by thermosets, PolyOne GLS can provide an economical and recyclable solution that’s available globally. The ability to modify and adjust the tactile feel of the material enables designers to dial in the force required to open / close dispensing valves consistently through the life of the final product.
Tubing/Films
From medical to beverage to industry, PolyOne GLS provides limitless extrudable and injection moldable solutions for unique and innovative end-uses.
