MOSCOW (MRC) -- Total, one of the leading companies in petrochemicals and Europe's third-largest oil company, has reached a new milestone in its innovation path for polypropylene (PP), and is now able to offer a complete range of polymers using non-phthalate catalysts, as per the company's press release.
The company’s pioneering approach covers all conversion technologies and has led to the development of dozens of grades of homopolymers, random copolymers, and - most challenging of all - impact copolymers. Grades have been developed to meet existing specifications.
Working in close cooperation with industry partners, Total has identified numerous segments that could benefit from an extension of its offering of non-phthalate catalyzed PP, mainly in packaging, flexible and rigid, healthcare and personal care applications, including the medical market. This is why several years ago an ambitious development program was launched to provide a full range of PP produced with such catalysts.
"We have upgraded our offering for our partners in packaging, health and personal care markets, and beyond," says Jean-Francois Renglet, Vice President Polymers Europe. "This is a perfect example of our full commitment to create the best solutions for our customers. It is the culmination of an evolution in our PP portfolio that started several years ago."
Total now markets non-phthalate catalyzed PP solutions to produce trays, boxes, pails, caps, bottles among other. Film converters using BOPP, cast and blown technologies, for instance, are prescribing the new grades from Total for a wide range of food packaging applications.
As MRC informed previously, Total is in plans to permanently shut its high density polyethylene (HDPE) line in Belgium by this year-end. The plant will be shut permanently owing to weak margins which have arisen on account of cheap imports in the region. Located at Antwerp in Belgium, the line has a production capacity of 70,000 mt/year.
Total S.A. is a French multinational oil and gas company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world with business in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. The company's petrochemical products cover two main groups: base chemicals and the consumer polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene) that are derived from them.
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