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Irgaclear® for Plastics

Irgaclear® - Clarifying and Nucleating Agent

Irgaclear® is a special clarifier for plastic applications. It helps to provide an attractive appearance and allows contents to be seen. Thus, it is ideally suited for food and storage containers as well as plastic bottles.

Benefits

Clarity for your products

  • Offers excellent “see-through” clarity
  • Low haze values and no yellowing in thin wall applications
  • Performs excellent at very low concentrations
  • Excellent organoleptic profile
  • Extremely high process resistance
  • Stable with FDA approval up to 210 ppm

Used in very low amounts, this clarifier has extremely high process resistance (no haze or yellowing, even after multiple extrusion steps) and an excellent organoleptic profile. Irgaclear® also helps to provide an attractive appearance and allows contents to be seen.

Further benefits include a superior processing stability. It has no influence on warping behavior. Irgaclear® is stable at high temperatures and demanding process and the ability to maintain performance in recyclate and regrind.

The high efficiency clarifier is ideally suited for injection molded and thermoformed polypropylene food and storage containers as well as blow molded bottles.