COCs to be marketed in American markets by Mitsui Chemicals

19-Jul-05

Processors in the Americas, who are looking to enhance the performance of their next generation products, now have APEL ™. Mitsui Chemicals America, Inc., a division of Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., has announced APEL™, a cyclo olefin copolymer (COC) to be marketed in the North and South American markets. The expansion in copolymer capacity by Mitsui earlier in 2005, is in response to increasing demand in high performance packaging, electronic and optical applications. Developed using the Ziegler polymerization process, APEL has a lower birefringence and the highest refractive index (1.54) among commercialized COCs and other cyclo olefin polymers. The copolymer will be available in film and resin form, with actual and potential applications for APEL™ in the film, optical, medical, and packaging areas. Its features make it ideal for use in high performance film, optical lens and packaging applications such as DVD players, recorders and SACD players, shrink film and in pharmaceutical packaging such as blister packs.