Clariant’s AddWorks PKG 906 Circle for reusing scraps

For many of us, it was our first childhood lesson in culinary circularity — Seeing how, when the cookie baking season was finally here again, scraps of leftover dough from the cutting were re-rolled and added to the fresh dough to make a new batch. Doing the same with homemade pasta is a bit more tricky, which is why smart Italian grandmothers invented maltagliati, but with a little water, olive oil, and effort, it is certainly possible. When making the plastic films used for keeping cookies, pasta, and many other products fresh and clean, things are less easy. The process generates a lot of similar scrap, but as a team of experts from Clariant’s Business Unit Additives learned when working with a global film manufacturer, only a fraction can be reused for production. To change this, they created AddWorks PKG 906 Circle – a special polymer stabilizer that substantially boosts the rate of scrap reused in polyolefin films. Most plastic films are made by melting down pellets of polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP) resin and…

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