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Nucleating Agents

Nucleators are powerful additives used in many different applications and industries

Milliken’s Industry-Leading Nucleating Agent Solutions

Milliken offers a range of high-performance nucleating agents for polypropylene. Our Hyperform® HPN® product line is designed to enhance aesthetics, provide fresher-looking parts, boost productivity, and provide confidence in food contact applications. These nucleating additives are used in various processes, including thermoforming, injection molding, and thin wall injection molding, to improve optical performance, isotropic shrinkage, regrind quality, and reduce haze. Solutions available for homopolymer, impact, and block copolymer polypropylene (PP).

NEW PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT

Hyperform® HPN® 58ei

This new performance additive for homopolymer polypropylene is designed to enhance the appearance of thermoformed packaging parts and sheets. Typical applications include food and beverage packaging, meat packaging, microwavable food packaging, and electronics packaging.

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SOLUTION SPOTLIGHT

Injection Molding & Thin Wall Injection Molding

Milliken’s range of nucleators help polypropylene (PP) producers and injection molders improve production and performance. Whether you're looking for high-productivity injection molding, high-stiffness injection molding, or balanced-property thin-wall injection molding, we have a solution for you. These benefits include reaching fast crystallization speeds, speeding up cooling, reducing cycle times, raising productivity, and boosting stiffness without lowering impact.

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Thermoforming

Milliken’s nucleator additives help polypropylene (PP) producers and thermoform manufacturers improve the optical performance, isotropic shrinkage, and regrind quality of sheets and thermoformed parts. Options are available that meet Food & Drug Administration (FDA) food contact approval. Want to reduce haze and improve clarity? Or improve consistency to reduce the number of rejects?

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SOLUTION SPOTLIGHT

Impact & Block Copolymer

Milliken’s nucleators provide excellent stiffness and impact balance, enabling the opportunity for downgauging.  Our nucleation performance allows customers to reduce cycle times and improve crystallization temperature, improving production efficiency.

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Milliken Has Helped 70+ Companies Globally Adopt UL Validated Label for Energy Savings

Milliken additives help customers' products achieve environmental claim validation from UL solutions and use UL Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) Mark on their packaging. This ECV mark communicates to consumers the product has been independently validated by a third party to perform in accordance with its environmental claims.

UL Solutions is a global independent safety science company offering expertise in certification, validation, testing, inspections, auditing, education and advisory services in a broad range of industries.