Home // A Guide to NIAS: Prioritizing Safety and Sustainability in Plastic Food Packaging Plastic packaging plays a vital role in our daily lives, providing both consumer convenience and product protection. The plastics industry faces the challenge of complying with several new regulations, such as the European Union's mandate for increased use of recycled materials in plastic packaging.

Home // A Guide to NIAS: Prioritizing Safety and Sustainability in Plastic Food Packaging Plastic packaging plays a vital role in our daily lives, providing both consumer convenience and product protection. The plastics industry faces the challenge of complying with several new regulations, such as the European Union's mandate for increased use of recycled materials in plastic packaging.

Plastic caps and closures are essential in the packaging industry, ensuring product safety and quality across various sectors. FOCUS AREA KEY REQUIREMENTS AVIENT TECHNOLOGIES Visual aesthetics • Offer custom color design and special effects • Provide brand differentiation • Utilize cost-effective solutions • Enhance design and identification • Allow permanent and repeatable markings • Solid colorants • Lower cost-to-color liquid color concentrates • Special effects colorants – molded metallics, plated • Smartbatch™ Combination Colorants and Additives • Laser marking for decoration and identification Dimensional stability • Limit shrinkage and warpage • Maintain mechanical properties • Solid colorants • Nucleating agents Production efficiencies • Improve cycle times • Nucleating agents • Smartbatch colorants and additives • Laser marking additives • Clean processing additives • Slip agents • Antistatic additives • Laser marking for coding Sustainability and increased post-consumer recycled content (PCR) usage • Control viscosity to maintain operational efficiencies • Provide lightweighting • Extend shelf life • Mitigate odor • Melt flow modifiers or enhancers • Nucleating agents • Predictive laser measurements • Colors that manage warpage and dimensional stability • Chemical foaming agents • APR-approved oxygen scavenger in the closure • UV barrier additives • Odor adsorbers • Clarifiers • Compatibilizers and heat stabilizers Performance • Protect brand integrity • Enhance consumer experience • Prevent environmental stress cracking and hinge failure • Maintain seal • UV blockers • Solid colorants and liquid color concentrates • Impact modifiers • Antimicrobial additives • Antioxidants • TPE liners 1.844.4AVIENT www.avient.com Copyright © 2025, Avient Corporation. The market for plastic caps and closures is driven by the need for innovative materials and designs that meet both functional and aesthetic requirements.

After processing, it is exists as white, powdery solid. The most common use—coatings and plastics—accounts for more than 80 percent of global consumption. TiO2 is the most used in terms of volume of all pigments employed by the plastic industry.

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Home // Using Post-Consumer Recycled Content in Plastic Packaging Closures Closures are critical to the plastic packaging system because they can protect the contents of the package and provide safety aspects for the consumer. This shift is improving access to PCR for closures specifically and, as a result, increasing the amount of PCR used across all plastic packaging, including in more challenging situations such as food-contact packaging.

Home // Using Post-Consumer Recycled Content in Plastic Packaging Closures Closures are critical to the plastic packaging system because they can protect the contents of the package and provide safety aspects for the consumer. This shift is improving access to PCR for closures specifically and, as a result, increasing the amount of PCR used across all plastic packaging, including in more challenging situations such as food-contact packaging.

Home // Using Post-Consumer Recycled Content in Plastic Packaging Closures Closures are critical to the plastic packaging system because they can protect the contents of the package and provide safety aspects for the consumer. This shift is improving access to PCR for closures specifically and, as a result, increasing the amount of PCR used across all plastic packaging, including in more challenging situations such as food-contact packaging.

What is Classed as Recycled Content Infographic_Select GLOSSARY OF TERMS POST- CONSUMER RECYCLE (PCR) TRADITIONAL BLACK MASTERBATCH AVIENT ONCOLOR™ IR SORTABLE BLACK MASTER- BATCH RETAIL/ CONSUMER RECLAIMER LANDFILL MATERIAL MANUFACTURER RECYCLE VALUE CHAIN BLACK PACKAGING Material Manufacturer - Raw material suppliers or processors who produce materials ready for manufacturing Masterbatch - A solid or liquid additive used for coloring plastics Retail/Consumer - End user Reclaimer - Local recycling center for consumer goods Post-Consumer Recycle (PCR) - Materials derived from polymers reclaimed at the end of their lifecycle that have been through waste treatment Landfill - Infrastructure with highly engineered containment systems that act as a safe and permanent repository for waste material that cannot be reused or recycled