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ing materials. RAS offers BPR-listed metallic silver technology used in antimicrobial, conductive and antiviral coating compounds. Lisa Owen, Sales Director at HeiQ Life in Char-
Extending options Switzerland’s HeiQ, an established player in odour control and other functional technologies for textiles, has been investing significantly in novel built-in antimicrobial technologies for plastics and coatings. Last year it acquired Hong Kong-based Life Material Technologies and Germany’s RAS. The former markets a botanical-based active technology called Life Natural and a broad portfo- lio of metallic and synthetic organic actives widely used by leading consumer and industrial plastics as well as coatings, paper, fibre extrusion and build-
lotte, NC, US, says the company has been develop- ing and launching a number of new technologies with commercial partners around the world. HeiQ HyProTecht, for example, is a new line of EPA and BPR-compliant silver-based antimicrobial master- batches said to offer “near-perfect” transparency in polymers such as PC, PET, GPPS and PP. In addition — responding to strong demand for botanical and bio-based solutions for consumer applications — it is launching a broad range of EPA and BPR-compliant masterbatches using natural plant extracts as active substances. The HeiQ Life Natural masterbatches are suitable for use in lower processing temperature polymers such as TPEs, TPU, EVA, PVC, PE and PP and can be used in both pigmented and transparent compounds. HeiQ Life Natural masterbatches comply with food contact regulations in China, the US, and the EU. Andrea Morandini and Lodovico Agostinis, chemical technology researchers at Spanish research centre Aimplas, see carbon-based
Left: HeiQ’s new HyProTEcht silver-based antimicrobial masterbatch is already commercialised in sanitary applications
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