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The first quarter, second BOPE development applications

Release time:2018-10-13 12:00:22 Hits:2070

Speaker: Dr. Gaudali; collate people: excellent Yu Dao Liang Gao Gong.



Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry was founded in 1958, formerly under the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and entered the China Petrochemical Corporation in 1998. Its business mainly includes ethylene technology, synthetic resin, synthetic rubber, organic fine chemical industry and chemical environmental protection. In the synthesis of resins, it is mainly responsible for the development of new materials for synthetic resins of Sinopec and the vast number of Sinopec Sinopec. Customers provide quality service.

Beihua Institute has a strong foundation and a long history in film-making research, including large-scale biaxial tensile testing machine, multi-layer extrusion tape casting machine, longitudinal MDO tensile testing machine, various performance film testing equipment, these equipment are of great help to Sinopec on the development of twin-pull materials, while the vast number of Sinopec Sinopec customers. Households open their doors.
BOPE film is a kind of high performance film material which is made of polyethylene resin with special molecular structure by flat film biaxial stretching. The properties of BOPE film have been greatly improved after stretching. Through the study of raw material molecular structure design and film stretching technology, Sinopec Beihua Institute has developed the first BOPE special material with high stretching ratio and stretching rate in China.

The special material can be produced on the existing BOPP double-pull production line, which fully meets the requirement of raw material stretching film forming. This also makes the large-scale industrial production and application of BOPE possible.

Film forming mechanism
In terms of mechanism, the development of BOPE special material is a kind of high performance film which is produced by taking the molecular structure of polyethylene as the guide and combining with advanced double-drawing processing technology. The traditional PE film is processed by extrusion blow molding and extrusion casting technology. Blowing and casting is a kind of melt processing, so the molding process. In the unsteady state, the BOPE film, like BOPP, is stretched by the flat film method, that is, the casting is extruded first and then the casting is stretched again after the second preheating and then the casting is stretched into the film under the semi-solid state. The forming process is a steady-state structure, so the film orientation is higher, especially the thickness uniformity is better. However, the existing polyethylene materials do not have the required molecular structure and can not be biaxially stretched.

Advantages of BOPE thin films
Because of its high orientation, molecular weight orientation and crystalline orientation, excellent impact resistance and anti-puncture properties, the puncture strength is about 2-5 times higher, especially after impact deformation is very small.

The tensile strength is higher than that of the existing blown film. The tensile strength is 2-8 times higher than that of the existing blown film. The two directions can reach more than 100Mpa.

BOPE is a rapid cooling process. The crystalline structure is fine, so the optical properties of BOPE film are good, and the fog of BOPE film is reduced by 30% - 85%, so it has very excellent optical properties.

Flat-film stretching has good thickness uniformity, which is suitable for high-speed printing and high-speed composite. In addition, BOPE film also has a certain tearability.

To sum up, BOPE film has these advantages, in packaging applications, because it has better pinhole resistance, low temperature impact resistance and puncture, can effectively reduce the breakage rate, for manufacturers to reduce costs.


Application of BOPE membrane

At present, BOPE film has been used in daily chemical packaging, food packaging, agricultural film and other fields, and achieved certain results. The developed BOPE film applications include heavy packaging bags, food packaging, composite bags, daily chemical bags, white film and so on.

Among them, the application of BOPE composite bags in this area is relatively successful, mainly using BOPE as a layer through the composite as a package material, the packaging material has the characteristics of sprint resistance, impact resistance, high strength, low temperature resistance. Because the high strength of BOPE provides the possibility of packaging material thinning, thinning the existing packaging, and at the same time improving the packaging strength can reduce the breakage, reduce the waste of packaging, reduce costs, we think that reducing the amount of plastic, thinning, but also as a more practical packaging green environmental protection technology.



1. Development of BOPE thermal sealing film: According to the requirement of BOPE thermal sealing film in packaging material field, the thermal sealing film was designed and the stretching process was optimized. BOPE heat sealing film with unilateral thermal seal and double-sided thermal seal structure has been developed. At present, the thermal sealing strength of the heat sealing film developed is relatively high, and the highest sealing temperature is above 20N.
2. For BOPE composite heavy packaging bags, we use BOPE film as the inner layer, composite nylon or PET or BOPP, and BOPE as the inner layer instead of the existing thick PE blowing film. We have successfully realized the composite heavy packaging bags made of 50um BOPE film instead of the existing 110um PE blowing film.

By comparing the properties of BOPE composite heavy packaging, we can see that the tensile strength and puncture strength of the two key indicators of packaging are 30um BOPE composite 15um BOPA, its tensile strength and puncture strength have reached or even exceeded 105um film blowing composite 15um BOPA structure, so for the package The loading strength has been greatly improved.

 
3. In food packaging, BOPE film still maintains good low-temperature resistance of PE resin, glass transition temperature can reach dozens of degrees below zero, so BOPE film maintains good low-temperature impact, pinhole resistance, so it can effectively reduce low-temperature food breakage. By comparing the low temperature impact properties of BOPE film and existing packaging, it can be seen that the impact strength of 30 um BOPE film can reach the strength of food packaging prepared by 90 um PE blowing film at minus 30 C. Therefore, BOPE film has certain advantages for frozen meat and seafood.

4. Bagging: BOPE is used as inner layer to prepare high-strength packaging bags, so as to replace the existing more expensive BOPA film. BOPE film can replace the existing BOPA film in packaging because of its strength and high resistance to puncture and impact, so as to ensure the performance of the bag and greatly reduce the cost of packaging.

For this application, we have two designs. One is that BOPE is used as the intermediate layer, the top and bottom of the composite materials to make high-strength, anti-puncture packaging bags to replace some packaging intermediate layer with BOPA, the other is that BOPET/BOPE structure is used to replace BOPA/IPE (CPE) structure without barriers, not only to reduce costs. Instead of nylon, it can achieve certain thinning effect and has the easy tear property that the existing IPE does not have.

 
5, BOPE for liquid self-contained bags / even bigger BIB bags.

Now the trend of liquid packaging is to use self-contained flexible bags for packaging, BOPE has certain advantages in this respect. With the advent of the beverage bags era, the international soft bags have begun to pour into the daily chemical and beverage packaging market. Compared with the traditional bottle, it is more convenient to use, has better printing and shelf display, and lightweight can reduce transportation costs and damage.

BIB (Bag-in-Box) packaging, that is, the bag in the box is made of multi-layer film flexible inner bags, sealing tap switches and cartons. Inner bag: made of 2-10 litres of liquid. Widely used in fruit juice, wine, mineral water, edible oil, industrial reagents, pesticides and so on.

 
6. Green application of environmental protection: At present, it is more realistic to use BOPE as the outer layer, CPE or PE blowing film as the inner layer of the composite full PE packaging bag, BOPE provides anti-puncture and tensile strength, so that the preparation of this kind of packaging bag is environmentally friendly, easy to recycle, the same material at the same time feel soft and not easy to scratch and so on, can be used in washing powder bag. In addition, efforts should be made to develop BOPE aluminized film, Matt Film and even BOPE high shrinkage film.

Properties of BOPE film
Mechanical properties: BOPE and PE blown film tensile curve above, existing PE blown film tensile yield at very low strength, about 10-20 Mpa yield, fracture strength 30-50 Mpa, but because of BOPE processing characteristics, processing process of tensile orientation, BOPE almost no yield, fracture strength can reach 100 Mpa, and extension The long rate and BOPA and BOPET have good matching, and the composite material has good synergy effect after packing.

Compared with BOPE film, the impact strength of ordinary PE film is lower, or the impact deformation is larger, but the impact deformation of BOPE film is smaller, without breaking, it does not affect the secondary use of packaging materials.

 
Demonstration of BOPE optical properties: Because of advanced processing technology, BOPE film has a lower haze, better light transmission, we can see that 60um BOPE film has better light transmission.
 
At present, the BOPE special material developed by Beihua Institute can be industrialized production. At the same time, BOPE film can be industrialized mass production with the help of customers and partners in the downstream of Sinopec. The developed BOPE industrialized products include 16-55um optical film, 25um-55um single-sided thermal sealing film, 25um, 35um double-sided thermal sealing film, 25-35um self-adhesive film, etc. The application is in development.

Show the properties of BOPE film industrial products: Comparing the main performance indicators of BOPE, the tensile strength, puncture strength, mist, impact strength of BOPE film have been greatly improved than the existing blowing PE film. The strength of 35um BOPE film can reach 105um PE blowing film strength and higher than the existing metallocene strength, so as a A new packaging substrate should have a good application prospect.
 
afterword
In order to promote the development and application of new materials and technologies, Sheng Chenglin, General Manager of Jiangsu Excellent Polymer Materials Co., Ltd, invited Dr. Dawley of Sinopec Research Institute of Chemical Industry, Mr. Zhang Guangqiang, General Manager of Foshan Plastic Technology Oriental Packaging Film Branch, Mr. Huang Junbiao, Executive Vice President of Shanghai Lingbo Plastic Packaging Co., Ltd. Professionals in various links of the industrial chain have held professional discussions on BOPE manufacturing and characteristics, and the application of sophisticated - Longpu Weixin Group.

This article is a speech by Dr. Goodall, a well-organized Wechat Event organized by Jing + Longpu. It is an integral part of the first phase of Jing's appeal for an environmentally friendly plastic packaging program. It was compiled by Jiangsu Jing Yu Daoliang Gaogong according to the pronunciation of Dr. Gao's speech. (the first quarter, second BOPE development applications).