Clariant sets benchmark in customer convenience with new Licocene® grades

Muttenz, October 27, 2010 - Clariant sets new levels in customer convenience with the launch of Licocene® wax grades offering unique easy-handling and all-round versatility and performance for plastics processors.

The extension of Clariant’s Licocene portfolio with high-performance metallocene-catalyzed grades Licocene PP 1302, PP 1502, PP 2602 and PP 6102, creates unprecedented possibilities for processors to improve their efficiency and production quality, and reduce costs.

The pioneering Licocene grades act as a dispersing and carrier agent in one for pre-mix formulations. The waxes can be used universally, displaying high compatibility with countless polymers used in plastics applications.

As a sole carrier, inventory management is simplified and costs are reduced. Processors can achieve better control and faster dispersion of colorants, additives and fillers without any negative impact on physical and mechanical properties. The use of a sole carrier enables processors to create more highly-filled and therefore effective formulations than traditionally possible. Particular performance needs can be tailored to specific applications through the controlled addition of the necessary ingredients.

Furthermore, the waxes allow ingredients to be shaped together into a granular format that is highly convenient and easy to handle.

The metallocene-catalyzed Licocene grades are available as amorphous and semi-crystalline granules. They offer low melting points (~80°C - 165°C), low viscosities at 170°C (~60 mPas – 7000 mPas), and narrow molecular weight distribution (<2).

“Creating solutions that support our customers in improving their efficiency is fundamental to Clariant’s approach, and processors want an easy to handle granule that will help them achieve this,” comments Michael Grosskopf, Head of the Business Unit Additives, Clariant International Ltd. “With the new Licocene grades we have a market first that will take our customers a step further towards more efficient processing with knock-on cost benefits. We are proud to unveil this flagship innovation at K 2010.”

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