Outdoor enthusiasts today typically seek out products that enable them to do what they love more comfortably and efficiently. There’s a way to achieve both form and function by adding a soft-touch, thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) grip.

WHAT IT DOES This range of additives offers food contact approved solutions that address these changing market requirements, to help improve existing film properties such as slip, anti-block, anti-static or no-fog. Our anti-fog additives eliminate the problem by lowering the surface tension of water droplets, causing them to merge and form a continuous transparent layer to maintain clarity.

The table and graph below summarize the values of the plaques recorded for L*, a*, and b*, throughout the different 5-melt histories. A visual inspection of the bottles shows that bottle B still has a very recognizable amber tone. The L*, a*, and b* values recorded in the table below are also well in accordance with what can be visualized in Figure 2, where there is a shift in the b* value indicating a decrease in yellow tone.

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During the injection-molding step, the TPE insert forms a strong bond with the substrate, such as polypropylene or polyethylene, used for the container closure. Traditional vulcanized rubber products require application of adhesives to bond to the closure, and this adhesive bond has a greater potential for failure than the chemical bond formed between a TPE and  polymer substrate.

Polymer jacket extrusion is the process of forming a polymer jacket of various thicknesses around a core of high-performance fibers, adding protection from mechanical, environmental or chemical damage. The fiber core can be parallel, twisted or in rope form.