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Nucleators/Nucleating Agents
Nucleators are powerful additives used in many different applications/industries. Learn more here about Milliken nucleating agents and what makes them special.
Contact UsMilliken’s Industry-Leading Nucleating Agent Solutions
Milliken offers a range of high-performance nucleating agents for polypropylene. Our Hyperform® HPN® product line is designed to enhance aesthetics, provide fresher-looking parts, boost productivity, and provide confidence in food contact applications. These nucleating additives are used in various processes, including thermoforming, injection molding, and thin wall injection molding, to improve optical performance, isotropic shrinkage, regrind quality, and reduce haze. Solutions available for homopolymer, impact, and block copolymer polypropylene (PP).
New Product Highlight
Hyperform® HPN® 58ei
This new performance additive for homopolymer polypropylene is designed to enhance the appearance of thermoformed packaging parts and sheets. Typical applications include food and beverage packaging, meet packaging, microwavable food packaging, and electronics packaging.
Injection Molding & Thin Wall Injection Molding
Milliken’s range of nucleators help polypropylene (PP) producers and injection molders improve production and performance. Whether you're looking for high-productivity injection molding, high-stiffness injection molding, or balanced-property thin-wall injection molding, we have a solution for you. These benefits include reaching fast crystallization speeds, speeding up cooling, reducing cycle times, raising productivity, and boosting stiffness without lowering impact. Contact us to find the right solution for your injection molding needs.
Thermoforming
Milliken’s nucleator additives help polypropylene (PP) producers and thermoform manufacturers improve the optical performance, isotropic shrinkage, and regrind quality of sheets and thermoformed parts. Options are available that meet Food & Drug Administration (FDA) food contact approval. Want to reduce haze and improve clarity? Or improve consistency to reduce the number of rejects? Contact us today to find the right solution for your application.
Impact & Block Copolymer
Milliken’s nucleators provide excellent stiffness and impact balance, enabling the opportunity for downgauging. Our nucleation performance allows customers to reduce cycle times and improve crystallization temperature, improving production efficiency.
Milliken has helped 70+ companies globally adopt UL Validated Label for energy savings.
Milliken additives help customers' products achieve environmental claim validation from UL solutions and use UL Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) Mark on their packaging.
This ECV mark communicates to consumers the product has been independently validated by a third party to perform in accordance with its environmental claims.
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