SPRING,
Texas, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ExxonMobil
introduced today its new Exceed™ S performance polyethylene (PE)
resins, which deliver industry-leading combinations of stiffness
and toughness while being easy to process. Utilizing the
company's latest innovations in polymer science, the new PE
platform provides opportunities to reduce the complexity of film
formulations and designs while improving film performance,
conversion efficiency, and packaging durability versus current
market references.
Modern film design is a story of increasing complexity and
compromise between performance and processability that is accepted
to ensure durable packaging and high customer satisfaction.
Multi-component resin blends in coextruded and laminated films with
high layer counts are common-place. Every step of producing
and converting printed film into durable packaging is prone to
complexity-induced inefficiency, scrap and human mistakes.
What if your resin could help simplify all of this?
"Exceed™ S performance PE resins deliver simplicity
without compromise," said Tom
Miller, Exceed™ S marketing manager at
ExxonMobil. "With Exceed S, converters can obtain high levels
of performance with easy processing, stiffness and toughness with
less blending, and resin solutions that can simplify operations and
improve package durability. In short, it is a platform of
performance polyethylene grades designed to do so much, so
simply."
Innovative converters can rethink film design with
Exceed™ S performance PE by…
- Creating stiff, tough functional layers to maximize
performance
- Leveraging increased performance to help facilitate solutions
with sustainability benefits
- Reducing the need to add HDPE for stiffness or LDPE for
processing
- Creating flatter, less extensible films to increase print and
package line efficiency
- Delivering more durable flexible packaging, contributing to
consumer satisfaction and helping to reduce food waste
The first three commercially available grades of Exceed™
S resins are designed to ensure low melt pressure and high output
on blown film lines. The combined benefits allow the creation
of a broad range of packaging and film applications:
- Large-format heavy duty sacks used in industry and
agriculture along with silo bags for farming can benefit from
increased puncture, impact and tear resistance. Exceed™ S
resin's combination of low melt pressure and high extrusion output
can also help increase converter's production capacity.
- In primary packaging, non-laminated coextruded films
used in pouches and bags containing liquid, food, or other goods
can benefit from improved toughness and are less likely to break
when transported or dropped. For example, multi-wall bladders used
in hot-filled bag-in-box packaging exhibit exceptional
resistance to heat-induced blocking and flex cracking.
- PE//PE laminates with improved stiffness, toughness
and bag drop survival can help facilitate larger pouch sizes and
accommodate bulkier, heavier contents, helping to expand market
usage of mechanically recyclable packaging.*
In these types of applications, the outstanding mechanical
properties of Exceed™ S resins can be used to increase
film performance, maintain comparable performance at a thinner
gauge, produce more durable mono-material products, or incorporate
high percentages of recycled content. Providing such
solutions are part of ExxonMobil's four-pronged approach of using
performance polymers to help facilitate solutions with
sustainability benefits.
"ExxonMobil has been at the forefront of polyethylene innovation
for nearly thirty years," said David
Hergenrether, vice president for polyethylene at ExxonMobil.
"The new Exceed™ S platform embodies our most advanced
product and process development informed by deep, long-standing
partnerships with our customers."
"The innovation opportunities that Exceed™ S
performance polyethylene offers have already resulted in successful
collaborations with more than 75 customers globally working on more
than 100 different applications. We look forward to
collaborating with our customers on new opportunities to advance
their products."
Learn more about ExxonMobil's Exceed™ S solutions,
visit: https://www.exxonmobilchemical.com/pe
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