Plastic film formulations are engineered to deliver high performance in a wide range of blown and cast applications with the key goal to enable production at high speeds without line breaks and at ever thinner gauges while maintaining, or improving, required physical properties. Additives — including antioxidants, slips, and processing aids — are crucial to this performance.

Additive suppliers are developing new options that meet demands from film users and processors for improved sustainability through the introduction of bio-based additives, alternative processing aids, and other solutions that help maintain film performance with ever higher levels of recycled content. Additives also play a role in the shift to more easily recycled mono-material flexible packaging.

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