Irgaclear - Nucleating agents - BASF SE

Kunststoffe international, 2007-09-19, Tailored to Your Timeline
...CH, since many processors are unsure and have only incomplete information. The question: “Who must perform what actions by when?” can be answered accurately only by a minority. Help here will surely by a valuable offering. New from Ciba is Irgaclear XT 386, a nucleating agent that is not based on the commonly used sorbitol chemistry. It is effective as a clarifier at considerably lower concentrations of at most 200 ppm in polypropylene (PP). The product features high thermal stability and is ext...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-19, Your Business – Our Effects
... sees the K 2007 trade fair as an important way to generate contacts and conduct conversations with potential customers. New products will be offered here in the form of special packages as solutions for customers. For instance, Ciba’s new Irgaclear XT 386 clarifier sets a new standard for transparent packaging applications using polypropylene. Such packaging exhibits excellent transparency and gloss as well as exceptional organoleptic properties in combination with thermal and chemical stabilit...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-02-17, Growth in Specialties
... Stab LA-81. In the area of nucleation, the company has a nucleating agent in its range (Adeka NA-71), which can be used for modifying polypropylene to make it highly transparent. The monopolar dominance of the sorbitols seems to have been broken. Irgaclear XT-386 from Ciba Specialty Chemicals AG of Basle, Switzerland, offers another alternative for transparent PP modification. With this product, masterbatch manufacturers or end users can break the monopoly of random PP copolymers. Nearly all ra...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-09-19, Clever Tool for Short Cooling Times
...en HP500V, manufacturer: Basell Polyolefine GmbH, Wesseling, Germany), two additional samples – each containing a different nucleating agent – were investigated. One of these additives was a commercial trisamide-based clarifier (grade: Irgaclear XT 386, manufacturer: BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany) with a concentration of 200 ppm, the other one a ß-nucleator (grade: Njstar NU-100, manufacturer: New Japan Chemical Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan) with a concentration of 400 ppm.The crystallization behavio...