Applications

BOPET Film

We serve the market with highly modified Copolyester resins to make BOPET films heat sealable by coextrusion rather than through a secondary lacquering or coating process.
Usually only one side of the coextruded BOPET film has a heat sealable surface. Heat sealable surface is designed to seal to itself, thermoformed tray of A-PET and CPET, unsaturated polyesters and paper. These BOPET films are used in a wide range of applications for packaging such as:

• Food packaging films with easy, medium, and strong peel effect
• Metal lamination
• Lidding films as used for ready meal CPET trays and for dairy containers

Compounding Base Resin

We offer PET and PETG as base resin for the compounding industry.

Applications cover

• Production of functional masterbatches
• Production of color masterbatches
• Base resins for compounding

Cosmetic Packaging

FutOrganic AG serves the cosmetic packaging industry with PETG, PCTG, PCTA and Copolyester. The focus is on skin care, make-up, sun protection and hair care.
Polymers for injection moulding, IBM, ISBM and extrusion blow moulding cover the most important processing technologies applied in this field.

Applications are:

• Cosmetic jars
• Mascara bottles
• Glass like, thick wall bottles
• Airless dispenser bodies
• Caps

CPET Tray Production

Crystalline Polyethylene Terephthalate, abbreviated as CPET, is an alternative to aluminum food trays. CPET is used primarily for ready meals. As a result of the partially crystalline structure achieved in a second conditioning step after thermoforming, CPET retains its shape at high temperatures and is therefore suitable for use with foodstuffs that are to be heated in conventional ovens and microwave ovens.
Standard for almost all CPET products is an IPA modified PET top layer, which has particularly good sealing properties and gives the products a glossy surface.
CPET trays can be used within a temperature range of –40°C to +220°C. This meets the needs of consumers, who require good impact resistance at low temperatures and shape retention at high temperatures. CPET also forms a highly effective barrier against oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

Applications:

• Convenience food: grab – heat – eat
• Meals on wheels services and hospital meal service
• Bakery products such as desserts, cakes or pastry – items can be unpacked and finished off in the oven or microwave

Credit Card Production

We supply PETG virgin resin for the extrusion of the Card Core Sheet and the Card Overlay Film.

Applications cover:

• Bank & ATM Cards
• Phone cards
• Identification cards
• Smart cards with chip
• Membership and loyalty cards
• Contactless and RFID cards
• Scratch-off and promotional cards
• Gift cards

Durable Goods

FutOrganic offers Copolyester for the injection moulding market of consumer goods and durables. Food contact as well as non-food applications are well covered by these resins. Our Copolyester are clear, glossy, though and chemical resistant. Copolyester compete with transparent polymers such as Polycarbonate (PC), Styrene-Acrylonitrile (SAN), other Styrenics (MABS) and Acrylics (PMMA) in the durable goods market. Yet Copolyester have many advantages when it comes to appearance, thoroughness, chemical resistance. Non-food applications cover:

• Toys
• Appliances
• Stationary
• Leisure products

Food contact applications cover:

• Household goods
• Unbreakable glasses
• Sports bottles
• Bottles for water carbonator
• Appliances with food contact (coffee machines, water filtration…)

Extruded Engineering Plastics

FutOrganic offers unfilled, high viscosity PET for the extrusion of semi-finished products such as rods, plates and sheets. PET used as an engineering plastic show good slide and wear properties. PET semi-finished products feature high strength, stiffness and toughness combined with good chemical resistance.

The end-use industries are:

• Mechanical engineering
• Semiconductor Technology
• Food Processing Industry
• Automotive Industry
• Electronics

Extruded Profiles

We offer PETG dedicated to the extrusion of profiles. Due to the fact that PETG can easily be bent, drilled or bonded while not showing any stress whitening such profiles are a preferred choice of fabricators.
In the retail sector, the clarity of PETG profiles makes them ideal for use in price tag rails, point of sale displays, ticket strips, shelving systems and card or menu holders. These can be colored during extrusion or decorated following fabrication.

Applications:

• Price tag rails on supermarket shelves
• Components for blinds
• Corner guards
• Edge protection
• Lighting tubes
• Electronics component carrier tubes
• Sampling tubes
• Slatwall components for Point-of-Purchase display assemblies

Extusion Blown Containers

FutOrganic AG offers PETG and Copolyester for any size extrusion blow moulded containers. No matter if thin walls or thick walls are required – we have the right polyester at hand! We have lately expanded our portfolio of resins with the addition of ultra-high viscosity PET tailored specifically for extrusion blow moulding (EBM) processes and packaging applications such as clear handleware and large-size containers.

Applications cover:

• Food and beverage bottles
• Cosmetic containers and hotel amenities
• Large size bottles with integrated handle

Furniture Decoration Films

We offer virgin PET and PETG as well as chemically recycled rPET of highest purity to produce furniture lamination films. Monolayer and multilayer decorative films made in PET, PETG and rPET or a combination of the same are capturing an ever-bigger market share of PVC that used to dominate this market. May be used in:

• 1D – flat lamination for kitchens, furniture, caravan and mobile home interior, cruise liner cabins and elevators
• 2D – two dimensional laminates for walls, ceilings, speakers and phone market, interior doors and furniture market
• 3D – three dimensional high-tech laminates for impressive interior design and doors, while goods and sophisticated furniture

Graphic and Print Films

We provide PETG resin for flat films cut to size for printing, box making, and stationary applications.

Applications cover

• Folded, transparent boxes
• Fabricated round boxes with lids
• Windows for cardboard boxes
• Advertising and promotional materials
• Rigid Tags
• Banners
• Films for hot stamping
• Point-of-purchase display fabrication
• Restaurant Menus
• Transparent and colored Stationary Items
• Transparent and colored covers for hand-outs
• Top Page protection
• Files and Folders

Heat Shrink Sleeves

Our PETG grades are dedicated to the extrusion and TDO process to produce films converted to heat shrink sleeves.
Shrink sleeves improve shelf impact and end-user awareness of fast-moving consumer goods.
Applications of shrink sleeves cover glass, plastic, and metal container such as

• Beverage bottles of all kinds
• Bottles and container for dairy products
• Household cleaner
• Candy and confectionery packaging
• Personal care, health, and beauty container
• Multipack and promotional packages

Heat-seal Layers on Packaging Films

We offer wide range of heat seal solutions covering rigid PET film and sheet, blown film and biaxially oriented film. This covers G/A/G constructions, PE replacement in PET/PE form-fill-seal, heat sealable blown films and extrusion of heat seal layer in BOPET. G/A/G film and sheet: coextruded outer PETG layers – typically at 10% of total thickness either side – make G/A/G construction very easy to heat seal when it comes to non-food blister packaging. PETG can be heat-sealed at low temperature and high frequency at short intervals. End use covers:

• Card blister
• Heat sealing blister
• High-frequency blister
• Half-fold blister
• Three-fold blister

PE replacement in PET/PE bottom web: FutOrganic offers solutions to replace the PE layer in PET/PE laminated or coextruded structures when used as bottom web in FFS packaging. Special Copolyester provide similar sealing performance as PE yet allowing the form-fill-seal trays to be fully recyclable. Such coextruded and thermoformed trays process at similar speed and temperature range as Polyethylene and therefore have no disadvantage when it comes to economics. Heat sealable blown film: we offer special Copolyester for the heat seal layer in coextruded PE blown film used as lidding film for mono PET trays. This way, mono-material PET trays can be sealed in a similar way to PET/PE trays. The use of such lidding film contributes to a more sustainable handling of packaging material since the bottom tray is fully recyclable, carrying the recycling identification code RIC#1 when sorting and recycling infrastructure is in place (e.g. tray-to-tray initiative). Mono PET trays in combination with PE lidding films can be found in a variety of food packaging areas:

• Meat and processed meat such as sausages
• Cheese and dairy products
• Fish and seafood
• Poultry
• Vegetarian and Vegan foodstuff
• Cereals, nuts and dried fruit
• Bread and baked goods
• Pet Food

Standard BOPET – biaxially oriented PET packaging films – are not heat sealable. Applying a coextrusion process and using the right Copolyester, BOPET films can be made heat sealable. Such films seal to itself and to other PET films and packaging articles. FutOrganic offers highly modified PET resins for the BOPET industry. Films are usually only side sealable, food contact approved, typically clear or white – here the end-use:

• Lidding films for dairy containers
• Food packaging
• Packaging steel lamination
• Bags and tubes
• Heat stable lidding films for CPET trays

Heavy Gauge Sheet

FutOrganic AG offers PETG and IPA-modified Copolyester resin to extrude heavy gauge sheets in a range of 1 to 20 mm. Extruded sheets are used in flat and thermoformed applications and can easily be fabricated. Main applications:

• Safety Glazing
• Machine Guards
• Displays and Shelves
• Price tags
• Shop Fittings
• Poster Covers
• Bus Shelters
• Signage flat and thermoformed
• Supermarket Food Dispensers
• Vending Machine Covers
• Moulds for Chocolate

Medical Device Packaging

FutOrganic AG offers PETG rigid film grades for high quality medical blisters and thermoformed packaging.
Keeping medical products safe and secure prior to being used in a medical setting or operating room PETG is the standard material for rigid packages for its durability, excellent forming capabilities and chemical resistance. This polymer is easy to sterilize with EtO (Ethylene Oxide) or by Gamma rays.

Applications:

• Thermoformed trays
• Snap-fit lid for medical device packaging trays
• Blister packaging
• Clamshells

Personal Care Products

For injection moulding of transparent toothbrushes, we offer PETG and PCTG polymers to the market. PETG and PCTG are easy to co-inject with elastomers (TPE) providing a decent grip. Additives for demoulding and processing aids reducing injection pressure are available as well.
Applications:

• Transparent toothbrushes
• Multicolor toothbrushes
• Toothbrushes for kids
• 2-piece travel toothbrush kit

Vacuum Blood Test Tubes

We supply low viscosity Pharmacopoeia approved PET for high-speed injection moulding of vacuum blood test tubes.
Blood collection tubes made of PET tube are highly transparent, unbreakable, and cost-effective while maintaining vacuum level over a long period of time.
Usually, blood collection tubes are assembled with a butyl rubber stopper and a polyethylene cap.
All types, such as no additive tubes, anticoagulation tubes and coagulation tubes are made of the very same PET base resin.

3D Printing Filaments

We serve the monofilament extrusion market with PETG for 3D printing. PETG is known to be an exceptionally strong material, and this makes it ideal for those objects that will be subjected to mechanical stress. It is hard, flexible and resistant, much of which can be put down to the way it adheres to each layer. The filament offers the same level of functionality as ABS, which is temperature resistance and strength, but it also has the same level of reliability as PLA. As a result, 3D printing with PETG is relatively easy. There is no odor with PETG, and this is one of the characteristics that makes it ideal for domestic use. 3D printing with PETG has a low level of shrinkage. It ensures that the original measurements remain the same, making it perfect for large 3D prints. The filament has a low level of deterioration when it comes to absorption. PETG does not absorb water and that ensures it remains strong. The material is extremely resistant to chemical agents, making PETG perfect for use in the medical profession. This also means that it can be sterilized easily. PETG can be recycled, including prints and misprints, making PETG a material that is better for the environment. This makes it possible to adhere to the many different regulations that are in place for recycling. Applications:

• Since PETG is easy to use this is the ideal polymer to get started, schools and universities use PETG as a first step in the 3D printing world
• Food grade PETG safe to use for bottles, cups, plates and kitchen utensils
• Mechanical components
• Planters
• Parts for remote controlled toys