HOME & PERSONAL CARE:
Ciba Specialty Chemicals' Home and Personal Care Business offers high value chemical ingredients that produce, protect or enhance a product's effect to benefit the consumer.
"The restyled Imaging & Inks industry website focuses even more fully on our customers, allowing them very rapidly to find the solutions they require by giving them more options and providing access to information at a click," said Mike Mordente, global head of
Ciba Specialty Chemicals' Imaging & Inks Business Line.
Irgaclear XT 386 also tolerates higher compounding and processing temperatures than many other clarifiers, and maintains its effectiveness even when subjected to multiple processing cycles, as if often the case when regrind or recycled resin is used, says
Ciba. Applications include thin-wall injection molding of transparent food containers, e.g., yogurt cups; injection molding of housewares such as food-storage containers; and extrusion and injection stretch blow molding of bottles.
These additions to
Ciba's Xymara special-effects pigments are said to reflect the natural shades and effects of frost, gold, heather, ocean, pine, and sunset.
Meier, head of
Ciba Specialty Chemicals" Market Platform Packaging.
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Ciba Specialty Chemicals, +41 61 6363 4444; via fax: +41 61 636 5111; or via the web: www.cibasc.com.
Ciba is committed to the paper industry in providing performance based products and services with a global reach in over 120 countries.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals' Home & Personal Care Business Line offers high value chemical ingredients that produce, protect or enhance a product's effect, allowing our customers to differentiate and grow their product offerings to end-use consumers.
A new plastic additive from
Ciba Specialty Chemicals (Muttenz, Switzerland), Irgasurf SR 100, boosts the scratch resistance of automotive polypropylene/thermoplastic olefin (PP/TPO) applications such as instrument panels, door panels, and pillars, and of exterior parts such as bumper fascia and side trim.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Tarrytown, N.Y., will commercially launch the as-yet unnamed modifier before the end of this quarter.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals will present new effects and expanded services at the European Coatings Show April 810 in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Ciba Specialty Chemicals has expanded its transparent pigment offerings with the acquisition of Sun Chemical Corporation's perylene product line.