LyondellBasell,one of the world's largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies aims to complete the conversion to non-phthalate catalyst for all Polypropylene food packaging grades by year end. This catalyst change meets the requirements of our customers and leading industry end users, in the ever demanding & challenging food packaging industry.

Approximately 80% of our EU PP portfolio has been converted to non-phthalate catalysts over the last number of years involving all our assets and is still on-going.

“The focus for this change has been on food packaging applications (flexible, rigid packaging and caps & closures) but also in healthcare, textile and blow molding most grades have been converted”, said Ben Buckers, Director Polypropylene and Catalloy Europe.

As the leading European manufacturer of polypropylene, LyondellBasell is advancing the conversion to non-phthalate catalyst for the manufacture of polypropylene grades in Europe. LyondellBasell is also a leading technology developer and catalyst manufacturer in the field of polypropylene.

 

Source: lyondellbasell.com

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