(Sabic) -- Visitors to this year's Fakuma plastics exhibition will have an opportunity to see several of SABIC's latest polypropylenes running on different injection moulding machines of its machine manufacturing partners, producing thin-walled packaging and medical components. The grades presented at Fakuma are supplied on a global scale from our facilities in Europe, Saudi Arabia and Asia.
SABIC's new grade for thin-wall injection moulded packaging, SABIC PP Flowpact FPC 100, will have its public premier at the show. Stork Plastics Machinery B.V., the Dutch specialist in high-speed injection moulding machines, will use it to make margarine tubs with 0.45-mm wall thicknesses in a four-cavity mould installed on a Stork E 2500-850 full-electric machine with a 2500-kN electric clamp unit.
KrausMaffei will be running SABIC QR673K, part of the SABIC PP Qrystal grade family, at their stand. The material has state-of-the-art part aesthetics and a broad processing window which enables lower processing temperatures, thus reducing energy consumption and cycle times.
SABIC PP Flowpact FPC 100 will also be used by ARBURG GmbH + Co KG, to make in-mould labelled 1.2-litre pails. A two-cavity mould will be running on an Arburg Allrounder 720 H with a clamp force of 3200 kN.