DotCore shows the way for custom PP compounds

Benvic will use the upcoming Fakuma 2023 show, October 17-21 to illustrate how its polypropylene (PP) - based compounding technology is now poised to work alongside its legendary vinyl expertise in terms of bespoke formulations for all customer needs and applications.

The company’s leading edge in chemistry and materials formulation then paved the way to Benvic’s new PP compound, christened DotCore.

Luca Battistoni is leading the work at Benvic’s Ferrara Italy site. A legacy slice of acquired Celanese PP technology provided the Benvic springboard to this marketplace. The company’s leading edge in chemistry and materials formulation then paved the way to Benvic’s new PP compound, christened DotCore.

‘Benvic is not the biggest player in this field – nor the smallest,’ says Luca. ‘What we are, however, is the most accurate and the most painstaking – an ideal partner in creating new materials for new applications.’

Benvic is now ideally placed to help manufacturers and innovators transition

And with a foot in both the vinyl and polyolfefin compounds, Benvic is now ideally placed to help manufacturers and innovators transition – or even exit – from one material source to another: ‘Both of these materials have strong advantages,’ notes Luca. ‘Vinyls have an outstanding recyclability and 2nd life performance, particularly in the building and construction sector. Polypropylene is still an advancing force as a successful and cost-effective commodity polymer. And polypropylene’s recyclability potential – still on the threshold – is enormous worldwide.’

The Fakuma exhibition in Southern Germany, October 17-21, will see Benvic making these points and giving full articulation to the DotCore materials technology.

Benvic’s ability to tailor polymer compounds

Luca Battistoni urges the plastics processing sectors to attend the Fakuma show, and to check out Benvic’s  ability to tailor polymer compounds to whatever the customer and the situation demands:

‘Today’s manufacturing marketplace means that the consumer, the OEM and the legislator is taking a bigger and bigger role in materials selection,’ he says. ‘Flexible material choices will be needed all times. Issues of sustainability and the circular economy are now mainstream and will also need to be addressed and accounted for at all times.’

It is therefore expected that Benvic’s initial work with DotCore will involve helping manufacturers who are introducing niche PP-based materials into new applications and markets – white goods and appliances, automotives in soft and hard compound formulations.

Benvic exhibits at Fakuma 2023, Friederichshafen, Germany, October 17-21, 2023. Hall B5 - Stand 5220

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