PVC plasticizers | additives feature
company says the Drapex Alpha product line currently extends to four grades, with several others in the final stages of commercialisation, including a product for food contact applications. The products join the company’s existing range of Drapex lubricants and secondary stabilisers based on epoxidised soybean oil. “We believe the various grades of Drapex Alpha to be
the first series of bio-based primary plasticizers to be competitive with conventional phthalate and non-phtha- late plasticizers on a cost performance basis,” says Galata Chemicals global business director Drew Clock. “Drapex Alpha products are being used commercially by our customers in a number of applications as an alternative for a broad range of phthalate and non- phthalate plasticizers, including general purpose plasticizers such as DINP, DIDP, DOTP as well as high performance C9-C11 linear plasticizers and trimelli- tates such as TOTM.” One of the first PVC compounding companies to work with the Drapex Alpha plasticizer is US-based Georgia Gulf Corporation, which has established a collaboration agreement with Galata. The company, which uses a range of phthalate-alternative plasticizers, says it will
work with customers to develop application-specific PVC compounds using the Drapex Alpha product. “We have used our decades of experience producing
engineered vinyls to develop a line of bio-based compounds that are free of phthalates and heavy metals. These non-petroleum-based compounds are specifically designed to enable customers to meet their sustainability goals without compromising product quality or processing stability,” says William Doherty,
Phthalate
restrictions have driven interest from
the toy industry in alternatives such as BASF’s Hexamoll DINCH
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