Lumicene - PE-HD, PE-LD - Bayport Polymers LLC

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
... and documented on data sheets in the form of melt index (MFI), modulus and haze, the areas of product purity and freedom from emissions are coming into prominence. Some manufacturers such as Total Petrochemicals, Brussels, Belgium, with its Lumicene series, and Lyondell-Basell Industries BV, Rotterdam, Netherlands, whose Metocene series now includes copolymers, clearly believe that the hour of metallocene products has finally come. That said, Borealis AG, Vienna, Austria, has shown with its Bor...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-08-19, The Customer Shall be King
...such as PE, PP and polystyrene (PS) still considers today’s plastics sector as a reliably growing market. Here, the company’s main focus is on packaging solutions (Fig. 4). They worked on improving the existing materials, e.g. Lumicene PP, in order to make them more sustainable, faster and less energy-consuming when processed by injection molding. For example, the proprietary PE material was modified so that preforms from this material can be blow molded into bottles, similar to PET. Generally s...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polypropylene (PP)
...egments appears to have had a somewhat adverse effect on the innovative activity of companies. Total S.A., Tour Total Coupole, France, is the only company actively promoting metallocene PP at the moment under the trademark Lumicene. But the fact that fiber types with very narrow molecular weight distribution (MR2001 and MR2002) were recently introduced as an innovation [5] gives food for thought because just such products were the first metallocene-based PP grades to be exhibited by the former H...