https://www.avient.com/news/avient-develops-new-dairy-packaging-additive-technology-meet-tio2-restrictions
In recent years, white opaque PET bottles for dairy applications have been under increasing scrutiny for the potential effects their mineral fillers can have on the recycle stream used to create fiber.
This latest Lactra technology offers brand owners and PET packaging converters the ability to achieve over 99.9 percent light blocking in monolayer PET, with high levels of whiteness (L* of up to 94) but with less than 1 weight percent TiO2 and less than 4 weight percent inorganic content.
Testing also shows that in established opaque white PET recycle streams, Lactra products are suitable for closed loop bottle-to-bottle recycling.
https://www.avient.com/news/polyone-helps-global-vision-2020-bring-usee-life
PolyOne proudly accepted this challenge and collaborated with the nonprofit's founder, Kevin White, to design a simple and effective device specially designed for use in under-resourced communities.
Together, the PolyOne team worked on industrial design, ergonomics, manufacturability, and material selection for the device, together with White and toolmaker/molder Alpha Tool and Mold, a longtime PolyOne customer.
I first started working on this problem more than 14 years ago when on international missions in the Marine Corps,” said Kevin White, executive director, Global Vision 2020 and inventor of the USee device.
