Dow New Packaging Receives 2016 Sustainable Packaging Award

[Reuters Packaging News] Dow Chemical's innovative product RETAINTM Polymer Modifier from the Packaging and Specialty Plastics Business Unit won the “2016 Sustainability Packaging Award” presented by the US-based Lions Media Group. This resin compatibilizer allows film manufacturers to recycle barrier film waste while maintaining the film's excellent physical and optical properties.

RETAINTM not only helps customers recycle packaging waste that was previously only landfilled or incinerated, but also increases post-consumer recycling. It can also recycle polyethylene (PE) high-barrier packaging more efficiently, helping the plastics packaging industry achieve recycling. economic. This award also reaffirmed Dow's efforts to continuously introduce more environmentally friendly solutions for sustainable development.

Compared with other barrier technologies, RETAINTM helps to increase the transparency of the package, maintain the mechanical properties of the packaging material, and significantly reduce the gel in the film generated in the barrier film recovery stream. This polymer modifier solves the problem of the difficulty of recycling multi-layer flexible barrier packaging due to the difference in material properties, helping the packaging to be recycled in the polyethylene recycle stream.

“Providing sustainable packaging solutions to meet the challenges of today’s world and inspiring future applications is where Dow continues to innovate.” Mark Saurin, Vice President of Business, Asia Pacific, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics Business Unit, said : “The RETAINTM Polymer Modifier has won this award, arguing that Dow has the ability to provide customers with disruptive innovations to help customers achieve their sustainable development goals and contribute to a greener future.”

As the judge of “2016 Sustainable Packaging Award”, Dr. Lin Xingwang, Deputy Director of Food Packaging R&D of PepsiCo Greater China, commented: “The direction of Dow's technical efforts is more significant in solving the technical problems encountered in recycling and recycling in the industry. Now, the recycling rate of flexible packaging film is very low, and if RETAINTM technology can be recycled in some limited film categories, its value is very large."

As a prestigious award in the Chinese packaging industry, the “China Sustainable Packaging Packaging Model Award” and the “China Sustainable Packaging Technology Award” were established and organized by the Hong Kong-based Lions Media Group in 2011. This year, the two awards were combined into the “China Sustainable Packaging Award” to encourage the Chinese packaging industry to apply sustainable development to the development and application of packaging technologies and solutions.