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Packaging Materials
Nexcycle recycles post industrial plastic scrap for making packaging materials. As a plastic recycler, we recover post industrial materials for a variety of packaging materials used by extrusion and injection molding processes to make packaging products from shrink wrapping to food packaging. Our packaging mateials include high density polyethylene: NPI – 04HDPE Mixed Color, linear and low density polyethylene: NPI – 01LL/LD Mixed Color and polypropylene: d NPI – 10PP212 Mixed Color. If you are looking for plastic packaging materials, and want a reliable alternative to virgin resin, we carry a well stocked supply of recycled plastic resins and are well located to offer you the lowest cost performance solutions available.
What is a Packaging Materials?
When you receive a package, whether from a relative or shipping company,
it is often filled with packaging materials. When virtually any fragile
or important object is sent somewhere, some sort of packaging materials
must be used to protect it. So what are the options? In a basic sense,
a wide range of items can be used for packaging materials, although specialized
products call for more specialized packaging material.
In the earlier years of mailing and shipping anything soft and available was used as packaging materials. For instance, many products might arrive surrounded in straw. Straw was a popular and inexpensive packaging material. In the past, peanuts were even used as packaging materials. Even today, peanuts are used as a fun edible packaging material for care packages to college students or overseas military personnel.
Today, ideal packaging materials are still those that are soft and inexpensive. When possible, it is also a bonus that will save your money if the packaging materials being used are the waste product of another process. For instance, often times saw dust, wood chips, or wood shavings may be used as packaging materials. Another option is to use shredded newspaper or shredded documents from an office.
Lastly, packaging materials may certainly be manufactured. This process is worthwhile when the manufacturing of the packaging materials is inexpensive. This is the case with both bubble wrap and Styrofoam peanuts. Both are soft and both may be manufactured inexpensively and in massive amounts. In addition, many companies choose to save these packaging materials and recycle them themselves. For instance, a company may receive hundreds of boxes of an item surrounded by Styrofoam packing. That company may save them and use the same packaging materials when they ship packages back out. Either way, recycling is big in the packaging materials business.
Choosing the Right Packaging Material
Selecting the right resin for making packaging products, involves knowing
what the most important properties of the resin, how these properties
are suited for a molding process and the type of packaging. The most important
property of our resins, for instance, concerns how the resin is suited
for molding. The melt index describes the flow behavior that can be expected
during processing. If you're looking for resin to use in blow molding,
film extrusion, pipe and profile extrusion processes, the higher the melt
index, the greater the melt strength will be. If you're looking for resins
for your injection molding process, a higher melt index will mean a faster
melt flow which helps to fill the mold cavities in shorter period of time.
Other important considerations include the permeability of a resin and
its resistance to chemicals both of which are important for food packaging.
Our polyethylenes and polypropylene are both rated highly for resistance
to chemicals and high permeability to air and gases.
Applications for our Packaging Materials
Our resins are used for a wide range of packaging products. The range
of use for plastic film in packaging is so wide that it is more convenient
to break it down by plastic material. Our low density polyethylene can
be used for:
1. Heavy Duty Sacks
2. Shrink Wrapping
3. Produce Pre Packaging
4. Textile Packaging
5. Frozen Food Packaging
6. Fast Food Packaging
7. General Food Packaging
8. Miscellaneous Non Food Packaging
Our high density polyethylene can be used for making plastic
paper. With a superior softening point than LDPE (which is above the boiling
point) it is ideal for boil-in-the-bag foods, i.e., fish fillets. Our
polypropylene is very popular for making textile packaging. Its superior
clarity, barrier properties and higher impact strength at lower temperatures
makes it very popular for making shrink wrapping.
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