About KRATON

KRATON, established in 2000, is a premier innovator and expert in polymer additives, headquartered in Houston, Texas. KRATON leads the way in producing high-performance additives that cater to various industries, ensuring enhanced product performance and sustainability. KRATON's versatile polymer additives are designed to improve durability, flexibility, stability, and resistance properties. These additives are essential in automotive, adhesive, coatings, and consumer products, making them crucial for manufacturers aiming to deliver high-quality and reliable products.

CirKular+™ C1000

CirKular+™ C1000 by KRATON acts as multi-resin compatibilizer. It is a performance enhancement additive for upcycling mixed post-consumer resin (PCR) and post-industrial resin (PIR) recycling streams. It brings cost effective solutions suitable for multiple end use applications.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li> It offers end product durability & aesthetics, superior mechanical properties, impact strength at room & low temperature and flexibility in tailoring properties.</li> <li> It shows tailored balance between stiffness & impact, increased recyclate homogeneity & compatibility, enhanced processability and improved surface finish & colorability.</li> <li> It displays improved multi-resin compatibility across virgin plastics, bioplastics, post-consumer & post-industrial resin waste streams such as bioplastics: polylactic acid, polyolefins and polyolefinic blends: PP, HDPE, MDPE, LLDPE and LDPE, metallocenes, polystyrene and high impact polystyrene, polar resins: PET, polyamides and nylon, PC, ABS, EVOH, PVA, EVA and wood plastic composites.</li> <li> It provides higher post-consumer & post-industrial content, improved end life recyclability & reusability of end product and positive environmental impact with lower CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and plastic waste reduction.</li> <li> CirKular+™ C1000 is suitable for compounding and dry blending extrusion, injection & blow molding films and thermoforming multi-layer structure as a tie layer.</li> <li> It is recommended for rigid packaging (food or non-food), flexible packaging and films, automotive consumer products and industrial building & construction.</li> <li> Typical addition levels of this additive range from 3 to 5% weight of the total formulation.</li> </ul>

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SYLVATAL™ D25LR Distilled Tall Oil

SYLVATAL™ D25LR Distilled Tall Oil by KRATON acts as an anti-stripping and release agent. It is a low viscosity, liquid long fatty acid chain. It exhibits monocarboxylic acid functionality and low saturated fatty acid content. It shows compatibility with other liquid fatty acid and vegetable oils. SYLVATAL™ D25LR Distilled Tall Oil derivatives are typically amines, amides and esters. It produces hard, water-resistant alkyd resins, as it contains high rosin content. It finds application in metal-working fluids, oil-field chemicals and concrete.

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KRATON™ D1155 ES

KRATON™ D1155 ES by KRATON is a modifier of bitumen. It is a clear, linear block co-polymer-based on styrene and butadiene with bound styrene of 40% mass. It is supplied as porous pellets dusted with amorphous silica. KRATON™ D1155 ES is used in the modification of polymers and in compounds for technical and footwear applications.

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