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NUCLEATING AGENTS

Nucleators are powerful additives used in many different applications and industries

FASTER CYCLES. POWERFUL RESULTS.

Milliken’s Hyperform® HPN® nucleating agents transform polypropylene performance. They deliver crisper aesthetics, faster cycle times, and food-contact confidence—all while improving optical clarity, reducing haze, and ensuring isotropic shrinkage. Perfect for thermoforming, injection molding, and thin-wall applications, our solutions work across homopolymer, impact, and block copolymer 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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Injection Molding

Milliken nucleators boost PP performance and productivity—delivering faster crystallization, quicker cooling, shorter cycles, and higher stiffness without sacrificing impact. Perfect for high-speed molding and thin-wall applications.

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Thermoforming

Milliken nucleators enhance PP sheet and part clarity, reduce haze, improve shrinkage consistency, and boost regrind quality—helping cut rejects. FDA-approved options available for food contact applications.

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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.