Baerlocher to Address Recyclate for Packaging with its long Experience using BAEROPOL T-Blends at PRSE fair

Munich, 13 March 2025 – At the PRSE in Amsterdam, the dedicated exhibition and conference for plastics recycling in Europe, Baerlocher will further strengthen its position as innovative supplier for sustainable additive solutions and share its latest experience in flexible and rigid packaging applications. From 01-02 April 2025, Baerlocher experts will be available for talks at booth J121.

Baerlocher, an established global supplier of additives for polyolefins and thermoplastics, will again exhibit at the leading recycling show PRSE in Amsterdam. The company promotes its unique Baeropol & Baerolub product range which has been developed by Baerlocher´s Special Additives business unit.

The company has a particular focus on the flexible and rigid packaging markets, which will be challenged in the coming years to comply with the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

Baerlocher’s product portfolio helps recycling companies to provide higher performing recyclate, so that brand owners and their converters can achieve the ever-increasing requirements on recycled content in final products.   

Hereby, Baerlocher cooperates with companies along the value chain to tackle the unmet needs for such recyclate in cast- and blown film extrusion and extrusion blow molding. 

The product range includes fully formulated additive packages under the Baeropol and Baerolub range of products. The additives are available in a dust-free pastille form, much appreciated by recyclers, who often struggle to handle powder materials. Unlike additives in masterbatches, these products have 100% active content.

At its booth, Baerlocher will discuss a wide variety of industry collaborations aimed at developing and implementing innovative recycling solutions for the plastics industry.

Improved processing of reHDPE in extrusion blow molded packaging

Driven by ambitious strategies, Brand owners are increasingly using reHDPE for packaging of for example detergents and personal care products, which has intensified the competition for reHDPE of sufficient quality for this purpose. Converters of such identified a variety of processing challenges and some of them found the solution by applying a Baeropol T-Blend from Baerlocher, which allows them to use lower quality feedstock, which would otherwise have produced an insufficiently performing recyclate. The Baeropol T-Blend also contributes to keeping process costs down, by allowing for an output which had not been possible without it.

Suppressing gels in rePE is key for film processing

Furthermore, in film processing the Baeropol T-Blends have become the go-to solution for recyclers that look for ever more demanding and thus more profitable end applications.  Baerlocher’s Baeropol products are designed to be fed directly into the cutter-compactor unit by using low-cost volumetric feeders. The improved quality of the recyclate is then quickly made visible in, for example, a downstream film blowing line, where less gelling and fewer degradation products lead to fewer bubble breakages and a more homogenous mechanical performance of the film.

For both applications Baerlocher has proven its capability to assist companies along the entire value chain in reaching their goals for the manufacturing and application of recycled plastics. Baerlocher experts will be at the booth and assist in identifying innovative solutions for each customer’s individual challenge. 

About Baerlocher:

The Baerlocher Group, with over 200 years of history, is a leading global supplier of plastic additives. As a family-owned business with a long-term vision, we focus on sustainability and the circular economy “shaping the industry towards sustainability”. Our two main business units are PVC, serving polyvinylchloride polymer applications, and SPA, providing special purpose additives for various polymer and non-polymer industries. We offer high-quality, reliable solutions and services worldwide.
 
Our portfolio includes oleochemical products, metal soaps, and complex additive systems designed to improve processing and product performance. We develop custom solutions with advanced laboratories and local technical support benefiting from our global network. Committed to sustainability, Baerlocher emphasizes renewable resources and supports recycling processes to enhance the industry's ecological impact.

For more information, please visit www.baerlocher.com.

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