Additives
This market survey presents suppliers of PET resins for the manufacture of preforms and bottles. The table shows the companies' ranges of bottle grade PET for different specifications:
- IV range applications (water, CSD, beer, wine/liquors, personal care/pharmaceuticals)
- PET resins with slow crystallization, resins for hot-fill applications, pre-coloured resins, fast reheat products.
- For the different challenges of protection of sensitive products, increased barrier properties of PET resin are being offered by some of the suppliers.
- With increasing demand for bottle grade rPET, some of the suppliers offer rPET blends, which are also listed in the table.
| Company / Contact | Liquid colours | Microgranule colours | Masterbatch colours | UV protection additive | AA reduction | Oxygen scavenger | Other | |||
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| liquid | solid | liquid | solid | liquid | solid | |||||
| Novapet Miguel Angel Arto |
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| Clariant Severine WIld |
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| Repi Maurizio Amicabile |
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| Sukano Ernes Candotto |
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| Gabriel Chemie [1] | ||||||||||
| Penn Color Scott Stamback |
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| Holland Colours Wilfried Grob |
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