VELOX GmbH (“VELOX”), a European leader in marketing and distribution of raw material specialities for the plastics, composites, rubber, paints and coatings industries, announces its extended product portfolio in partnership with POLYRAM Plastic Industries Ltd.
Polyram Plastic Industries Ltd. (“POLYRAM”) is a leading global supplier of high performance thermoplastic compounds. VELOX is distributing POLYRAM’s adhesive resins, Bondyram TL, since beginning of 2003 Well-established in the market are ready to use polypropylene-grades and concentrated anhydride polyethylene-grades designated for multilayer coextruded structures. These Bondyram grades are primarily used for food packaging applications.
Introduced in 2016 the new grades TL4530 and TL4401 of the Bondyram series will allow customers coextrusion of copolyester (PET / PETG) or polystyrene (PS) to adhere to materials such as EVOH, PA and PE resins.
Dror Koen, International Marketing Manager – Europe at POLYRAM, explained that the development of the new grade and all necessary tests are completed. Bondyram TL4401 was developed especially for polystyrene hot fill applications. The principal characteristic is the high Vicat Softening Temperature (VST), which is above 85°C.
This new grade offers a very good adhesion for coextruded films, which could have the following structure: PE/TL4401/EVOH/TL4401/PS (see image).
Paul Kunzfeld, Product Manager Plastic Division at VELOX, comments: „We are pleased to extend our product range by these two Bondyram TL grades, which will offer our customers additional options and solutions”.
VELOX will be present at the K show from the 19th to 26th of October 2016 in Dusseldorf at booth A23 in hall 6. Our team is looking forward to meeting you at our stand to discuss the new Bondyram TL resins in your applications.
Image: Velox GmbH
