Sabic (Riyadh / Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has added two high-purity PP random copolymers to its “PCG” range of polymers for healthcare applications. Launched at “Pharmapack 2011” in Paris in February 2011, extrusion-blow moulding grade “PP PCGR02” offers good contact transparency, high impact strength and good processability with bottles and ampoules as key target applications.

Also introduced at the exhibition was “PP PCGR25”, which has been developed for injection moulding and has high clarity and good antistatic properties necessary for injection moulded housings of disposable syringes and for other components. The company said the injection moulding grade allows lower melt processing temperatures than for conventional random copolymers and that converters can operate with significantly shorter cycle times and achieve energy savings of up to 15%.