Clariant installs PET blowmolding machine to support North American packaging customers

摘要

Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, is extending its color and special effects' testing services for packaging sector customers in North America. The acquisition of a new production-scale stretch blow-molding machine and other available services at its ColorWorks Design & Technology Center in West Chicago, Illinois, now make it possible for developers of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic containers to evaluate Clariant color and special-effect masterbatches in full-size, three-dimensional bottles instead of flat injection-molded chips. The machine is typical of those used in actual package manufacturing, so designers and brand managers are now able to develop realistic samples for almost immediate evaluation. Clariant also has extrusion blow-molding machines available to produce for mono-and multi-layer containers made of polyolefins.