As a focused, sustainable and innovative specialty chemical company, Clariant has taken steps towards improving the sustainability performance of plastics.
By increasing the use of renewable, natural, non-food competitive ingredients in our products, we offer our customers more sustainable raw material options. At the same time, we also help plastic processing enterprises to reduce processing temperature and enhance the carbon dioxide emission reduction potential of these enterprises.
Among them, Clariant Licocare®RBW Vita Licocare®
Wax product solutions are a good example, which can promote the realization of the 12th and 13th goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and can be applied to polyester products that must be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, including Baby care products, food packaging materials, various household appliances and water filtration systems, etc.
Turning challenges into benefits
During rice processing, the production of edible oil from rice bran produces thousands of tons of coarse rice bran wax as a by-product.
To help customers get more value from cultivated rice, we turn the “waste” of the precious grain into high-performance lubricants and dispersing aids based on renewable raw materials, Clariant Licocare® RBW
Solutions from Vita’s range of Wax products.
As a renewable carbon solution with a Renewable Carbon Index (RCI) above 98%, Licocare® RBW Vita
Likerui® wax additive products can improve the efficiency, quality and sustainable performance of plastic processing, and help plastic processing companies achieve the needs and goals of improving processing efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and improving product performance.
Manuel, Global Director, Strategy and Innovation, Adsorbents and Additives Business Unit
Müller said: “Our mission is to develop innovative additives to accelerate the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon and make it more feasible to achieve the transition in the product processing stage. Ultimately, these high-performance additives will be used throughout the supply chain to promote the United Nations. Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals ‘Responsible Consumption and Production’ and ‘Climate Action’, while maintaining product competitiveness.”
Reduce carbon footprint and improve processing performance
Technically, Clariant Licocare®RBW Vita Licocare®
Wax products provide a low-carbon way to improve the processing performance of plastics, which can improve the flow characteristics of polymer melts, improve the dispersion of various pigments in polymers, and reduce the release force of plastic injection molded parts Or the release force between plastic films.
Clariant Licocare® RBW Vita Licocare®
By promoting the polymer to flow into the mold or flow through the die head more quickly, the wax reduces the flow resistance of the polymer and reduces the generation of turbulence, thereby reducing the processing temperature and increasing the processing rate, reducing the generation and consumption of carbon, reducing energy consumption and improving Product qualification rate and reduce scrap rate.
In the production workshop, Licocare® RBW Vita Licocare®
Wax products can keep the surface of machined parts flat and ensure that polymer melt fills molds with complex structures, helping plastics processing companies to more easily meet the demanding requirements of end applications.
More importantly, the application of these additives will reduce the amount of waste generated, and all waste materials can be reused, including utilization in FDA-approved polyester materials, for the production of new packaging materials; or Recycled PET bottles can be used in products such as water filters or polyester fibers for children’s clothing to promote the development of a circular economy.
Licocare®RBW Vita
WaxExcellent Properties
Renewable raw materials
Produced from coarse rice bran wax
Excellent processing performance
Compared with alternatives in the market, it reduces scrap rate, improves polymer melt mold fill rate, improves surface flatness of machined parts, and improves part aesthetics and quality.
The processing technology is stable
Compared with traditional solutions, improve the polymer melt flow characteristics or increase the flow rate, reduce the ejection force, reduce the processing interruption caused by the sticking of the parts, and increase the number of processed parts per unit time.
Full-featured
Specific additives are selected to provide multiple functions simultaneously, including providing lubrication and nucleation and improving the dispersion of pigments or fillers in a variety of applications.
Such as Licocare® RBW 330 Vita Wax and Licocare® RBW 560 Vita
Waxes are applied to polyamide and polyester, respectively, to promote the nucleation of polymers, increase the crystallinity of polymers, reduce shrinkage or warping of parts, and shorten injection molding cycles.
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