Processors and converters of flexible thermoplastic film often do an excellent job of meeting the requirements for food protection and attractive marketing. Today, thanks to a development cooperation between a leading global supplier of additive and colorant masterbatches and a major producer of polyolefin thermoplastics, packaging film producers have the opportunity to select film- grade polypropylene for sealing layers that are highly transparent, can be efficiently processed and converted, and yield film that provides an excellent seal and yet still enables easy opening.

For example, we invested in three new engineered materials lines in our Suzhou, China facility; introduced thermoplastic elastomer capability in Pune, India; upgraded our laboratory in McHenry, Illinois; and increased solid and liquid colorant processing capacity at multiple facilities in North America. Thermoplastics offer versatility and a wide range of applications. Garratt worked for DuPont Dow Elastomers, a joint venture of Dupont and Dow (global manufacturers of engineered thermoset rubber and thermoplastic elastomer materials) in market development and product management positions, culminating in a regional commercial leadership role for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Thermoplastics offer versatility and a wide range of applications. Garratt worked for DuPont Dow Elastomers, a joint venture of Dupont and Dow (global manufacturers of engineered thermoset rubber and thermoplastic elastomer materials) in market development and product management positions, culminating in a regional commercial leadership role for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Our product portfolio, which we believe to be one of the most diverse in our industry, includes specialty formulated high-performance polymer materials that are manufactured using thermoplastic resins and elastomers, which are then combined with advanced polymer additives, reinforcement, filler, colorant and/or biomaterial technologies.

With PREPERM™ thermoplastics, you can easily produce complex and large high-precision parts that have tight tolerances in material characteristics​

Polystrand™ R continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites are made with a resin matrix of greater than 95% post-consumer recycled PET (rPET).

Traditionally, Carbon fiber tows were used in thermoset composite applications but are being incorporated into thermoplastics more and more.

Now the benefits of thermoplastic materials are available also for the applications traditionally produced from ceramics or thermoset plastic materials

Plastisol ink is thermoplastic, an attribute which allows the cured surface of the ink to be heated to the point to which it can be manipulated.

ColorMatrix™ Apogee™ Glass Transition Enhancer for Thermoplastics

Avient’s reinforced composite technologies use carbon, glass and aramid fibers with custom formulated thermoset or thermoplastic resins in continuous forming processes