Food and beverage brand owners are aware of current French tariffs and potential future tariffs that may limit TiO2 content in packaging
Introducing Avient’s new Range of ColorMatrix Lactra Dairy Protection Additives With Low Total Inorganic and TiO2 Content. (Credit: Avient)
Avient today announced the launch of ColorMatrix™ Lactra™ Four, One, and Zero additives. This new product range offers low total inorganic and TiO2 content light-blocking solutions for PET dairy and dairy-alternative packaging.
Food and beverage brand owners are aware of current French tariffs and potential future tariffs that may limit TiO2 content in packaging. As a result, brand owners in the EU, Asia, and LATAM are proactively reducing TiO2 and total inorganic content in their packaging to less than 4 percent, with an eye toward an expected future reduction to less than 1 percent.
The new range of Lactra additives helps to streamline this process, as they process well at similar conditions to virgin PET. These next-generation light blocking solutions also include:
REACH compliance
EU food contact approval
Full light blocking (>99.8% up to 700nm) performance even in thin wall sections
To help packaging customers further their recyclability and lightweighting goals, Avient developed this technology for mono-layer PET, one of the most widely recycled packaging materials. Lactra Four, One, and Zero offer light blocking up to 99.9 percent with total inorganic content of less than 4 percent and TiO2 content between 4 and zero percent. Additional benefits include improved performance in thin wall sections, superior whiteness, and better processability with virgin PET grades and rPET.
Dairy and dairy-alternative products are susceptible to light-induced oxidation that reduces product nutritional value and can cause off-flavors. In PET packaging, specialized light blocking additives are regularly used to stop visible-light induced contents from degrading under commercially relevant storage conditions, helping to prolong the shelf life of dairy packaged products such as ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk. These new additives are an expansion of this technology.
Source: Company Press Release