Velox GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) is one of Europe's leading suppliers of raw materials for the plastics, composites, additives, paints and coatings industries. Its long-term partner SK Chemicals (Seongnam, South Korea) will showcase a new generation of innovative applications in plastic packaging, such as aerosol containers, as well as cosmetics and hot-fill bottles. Velox Ecozen HFECOZEN HF is its newly developed biocopolyester series, suitable for any application requiring heat resistance, pressure resistance and transparency, and can replace aluminum, glass and PET.
The first customers have conducted sampling tests on all levels.
François Minec, general manager of Velox, explained, "ECOZEN HF has similar processing requirements to PET and can be used in the same injection-stretch blow molding (ISBM)) process. However, SK Chemicals' new products are where PET sometimes fails Performs well, such as in high temperature and pressure environments. For example, PET is sometimes used to produce aerosol bottles. Due to the high residual stress and low temperature resistance of PET, these bottles often fail, especially in the summer when leakage problems may occur. ECOZEN HF provides an ideal alternative. "
ECOZEN HF has the characteristics of pressure resistance, stress crack resistance, high temperature resistance, etc. It has the characteristics of good transparency and easy processing. As a glass substitute in food packaging and other fields, it not only helps to reduce weight and transportation costs, but also can be used to produce hot-filled containers without the need for expensive PET thermosetting processes and without the need for bottle or bottle neck crystallization.
Similarly, as an aluminum substitute for the cosmetics packaging industry, ECOZEN HF combines high pressure resistance, design flexibility and transparency. In addition, Ecozen HF is completely miscible with PET in the recovery stream.
Velox offers this new series in almost all European countries.