Dow Chemical (cross linking membrane raw material supplier) company's package and special plastic business department's innovative product RETAIN / polymer modifier, won the "2016 sustainable development packaging award" issued by Hongkong Mei lion media group. This resin compatibilizer can make film producers recycle the barrier film waste at the same time, while maintaining the excellent physical and optical properties of the film.

RETAINTM not only helps customers recover and use the previously only landfill or incineration of packaging waste, improve the recovery after consumption, and can more effectively recycle and use polyethylene (PE) high barrier packaging materials, thus helping the plastic packaging industry to realize the recycling economy. The award also reaffirmed the efforts of Dow to introduce more environmentally friendly solutions for sustainable development.

Compared with other barrier techniques, RETAINTM helps to improve the transparency of the packaging, to maintain the mechanical properties of the packaging materials, and to significantly reduce the gel in the membrane from the barrier recovery flow. This polymer modifier solves the problem that the multi-layer flexible barrier packaging is difficult to recover because of the difference in material performance, and helps the packaging to be recycled in the polyethylene recovery flow.

"Providing sustainable packaging solutions to the challenges of today's world and inspiring future applications is the driving force behind Dow's continuous innovation." Mark Saurin, a vice president of business in the Asia Pacific region of Dow packaging and special plastic business department, said: "RETAIN TM polymer modifiers can be awarded this honor, proving that Dow has the ability to provide disruptive and innovative technologies for customers to help customers achieve sustainable development goals and contribute to the green future."

As the commentaries of the "2016 sustainable development packaging award", Dr. Lin Xingwang, deputy director of the research and development of food packaging in Pepsi China District, said: "the direction of Dow's technical efforts is of great significance to solving the technical problems encountered in the recycling and reuse of industry. Now the recovery and utilization of the soft packaging film is very low, and the value of RETAIN technology is very great if it can be recycled in some limited film categories. "

As a well-known award in China's packaging industry, the "China sustainable development package model award" and "China's sustainable development packaging technology award" were set up and organized by Hongkong Mei lion media group in 2011. This year, two awards have evolved into "China's sustainable development packaging award", which aims to encourage the Chinese packaging industry to apply sustainable development to the development and application of packaging technology and solutions.