Clarity and transparency support a message of freshness, and cleanliness and is next to this a powerful design tool for any plastic packaging to differentiate in all kind of consumer markets. To cover the growing demand in transparency and clarity applications, Ciba Specialty Chemicals has developed a range of colorants and additives.

The incorporation of clarifiers in polypropylene, especially in random copolymers, strongly improves the optical properties, clarity and transparency, and thereby helps to expand its use for new applications, such as containers / bottles for cosmetics and preserved or fresh food.

Ciba® IRGACLEAR® XT 386 high-efficiency, next generation clarifier from Ciba Specialty Chemicals, newly launched on the market, enables excellent see-through clarity of polypropylene products.

• Offers excellent see-through” clarity at low concentration
• Shows organoleptic excellence, resulting from high thermal and chemical stability, and extraction resistance
• Enables higher quality polypropylene products

Please find more information about the next generation clarifier from Ciba Specialty Chemicals here.

For the coloration of transparent polypropylene Ciba Specialty Chemicals offers a broad range of pigments with excellent properties and no compromise on processability and stability. For engineering plastics like PET and polysterenes, Ciba® ORACET® polymer soluble colorants offer outstanding value by virtue of ease of incorporation and very good resistance properties. They bring to the end product not only excellent transparency but also brightness and style. For further questions please contact us.

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