Brazilian Products

 Vitopel is taking to the external market a new product whose appeal is the sustainability. Released in May in Brasilplast, the synthetic paper is made with recycled plastic residues. 
  
“It is a product with fort sustainability appeal, and we are receiving consultations of several potentials international customers”, he explains. “We have been sought by several companies and institutions that plan to print their promotional and institutional materials with more maintainable appeals”, he completes.  
 
Made from plastic residues collected by the cooperatives, catchers and other, the synthetic paper of Vitopel will be introduced to Chinese executives and in the fair of plastics of Chicago, this month. 
 
The product uses the technology of the flexible films-used in labels, packings, pet food, press industry and other applications-however containing different types of polymeric in it composition. The result is a resistant material, similar to the couché paper, that allows the manual writing with ballpoint pens, pens of porous tip and pencil, and the impression by the usual print processes as glides or rotative off-set.  
 
IAs the company, the big differential of the innovation it is that there is mot in the world other technology developed to use different recycled plastics - like PP, PE, PVC, EVA -i n the composition of the synthetic paper. Coming of discarded bottles, packings, used plastic flasks and others, the material results in a homogeneous mixture, perfect for the production of the film.  
 
Vitopel, that invests annually about of US$ 2 million in research and development (P&D), is the third greather company in the world in the production of flexible films. It has three plants, two in Brazil and one in Argentina and it produces 150 thousand tons of flexible BOPP films / year. Up to 2010 it should invest US$ 55 million in the enlargement of the production.

03/23/2010
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