Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu) has added two new grades to its globally pioneering Admer™ range of polyolefin-based adhesive resins, which are used in multilayer bottles, tubes, films and sheets. Aiming to contribute to the creation of a circular economy, Mitsui Chemicals has developed the environmentally friendly Admer™ EF Series in response to a high level of need among customers and society as a whole. Featured in the new lineup are Biomass Admer, which contains at least 50 percent biomass, and a recycling agent to remedy the degradation in strength, impact resistance and other properties that occurs due to recycling.
Biomass Grade
Recycling Agent Grade
1) Biomass Grade
Features
Adhesive resin containing at least 50%biomass to help combat global warming Same adhesive strength, moldability and molding appearanceas conventional Admer™, making application easy
Main Applications
Multilayer bottles
Recommended grade: Admer™ EF BE550
Multilayer tubes
Recommended grade: Admer™ EF BE300
Multilayer films and sheets
Recommended grade: Admer™ EF BE518
2) Recycling Agent Grade
Recent years have seen efforts made to reduce plastic waste by avoiding the generation of this as far as possible. However, a major challenge in recycling mill ends and scrap generated in manufacturing processes has been the degradation in properties such as strength and impact resistance - this caused by the effects of heat on plastic in primary processing, as well as by the presence of other materials in plastic products such as multilayer bottles (see Figure 1). Adding Admer™ EF (recycling agent grade) during the recycling process helps to curb such reductions in strength and impact resistance (see Figure 2). The newly developed grade will therefore make a substantial contribution to promoting a widespread shift to the mechanical recycling of packaging material and other molded plastic items.
[Figure 1: Illustration of recycling process]
[Figure 2: Property enhancement effects of Admer™ EF]
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. specializes in the manufacture and marketing of chemicals products. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- basic chemicals and fine chemicals products (48.8%): polypropylene, polyethylene, phenols, polyolefins, polyurethane, etc.;
- performance chemicals products (25.5%): elastomers, urethane, polymers, etc. intended in particular for the automotive industry;
- coating materials, films and agrochemicals (14.6%): resins, adhesives, polypropylene films, polyethylene films, industrial films, agrochemicals (insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, etc.) for the food and packaging sectors;
- specialty materials (10.2%): ophthalmic lens materials, photochromic materials, non-woven fibers, dental products, etc. dedicated to the medical and healthcare industry;
- other (0.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (52.2%), China (14.5%), Asia (13.6%), America (11.8%), Europe (7.3%) and other (0.6%).
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