SABIC’s thermoforming portfolio successfully supports customers in meeting their design and awareness challenges

Sittard, the Netherlands – April 19, 2010 – Danish converter Færch Plast, a SABIC customer for several years now, is using SABIC® PP materials to develop new product solutions for its customers in the field of food packaging. (Modified Atmosphere Packaging). One of Færch Plast’s key challenges is to develop packaging that is friendlier for the environment without compromising on technical requirements and trendy design. Færch Plast is able to meet these requirements by using SABIC’s latest PP range for Thermoforming.

“Our customers are looking for lightweight packaging with an eye-catching design and an excellent impact. By using the SABIC® PP range for Thermoforming we can meet and even surpass these expectations, thus supporting and improving our customers’ brand awareness,” says Merete Rosendahl, Development Manager, Færch Plast.

As well as the appearance of packaging, its “green” aspect is becoming increasingly important for consumers, more and more of whom are consciously choosing to buy environmentally friendly products and packaging. SABIC understands this trend and has designed the homopolymer grade SABIC® PP 527K to meet these requirements. “SABIC® PP 527K opens up new down gauging opportunities and improves the conversion economics which results in a considerably reduced carbon footprint for our customers,” says Tjerk Lenstra, SABIC Technical Marketing. “This new generation of SABIC® PP for thermoforming offers converters down gauging possibilities of up to 10-15% which provides them with significant material and energy savings. Without compromising on quality and safety, SABIC’s PP grades are the product of choice when it comes to sustainable production and consumption.”

SABIC’s broad PP product portfolio – consisting of homopolymers, impact copolymers and random polymers – is widely applied within the thin wall packaging industry. “At SABIC we not only understand the challenges of converters but also the key drivers of their customers, the brand owners,” continues Lenstra. “Specifiers and converters such as Færch Plast demand tailor made solutions that fit with their market strategy and our portfolio can fulfil both their demands.”


SABIC is continuously looking for new solutions that meet the requirements of our customers along the complete value chain. “We are a value driven partner, supporting our customers’ success by providing them with material solutions that respond to the market trends in plastic packaging, be they PP, PE, PET or PS, ” explains Lenstra.

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About SABIC

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) ranks among the world’s top six petrochemical companies. The company is among the world’s market leaders in the production of polyethylene, polypropylene and other advanced thermoplastics, glycols, methanol and fertilizers.

SABIC recorded a net profit of SR 9 billion (US$ 2.4 billion) in 2009. Sales revenues for 2009 totaled SR 103 billion (US$ 27 billion). Total assets stood at SR 297 billion (US$ 79.2 billion) at the end of 2009.

SABIC’s businesses are grouped into Chemicals, Polymers, Performance Chemicals, Fertilizers, Metals and Innovative Plastics. SABIC has significant research resources with six dedicated Technology & Innovation Centers in Saudi Arabia, Europe, the USA and India.. The company operates in more than 40 countries across the world with 33,000 employees worldwide.

The company has 19 world-scale complexes in Saudi Arabia. Elsewhere, SABIC manufactures on a global scale in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. SABIC’s overall production has increased from 35 million metric tons in 2001 to 59 million metric tons in 2009.

Headquartered in Riyadh, SABIC was founded in 1976 when the Saudi Arabian Government decided to use the hydrocarbon gases associated with its oil production as the principal feedstock for production of chemicals, polymers and fertilizers. The Saudi Arabian Government owns 70 percent of SABIC shares with the remaining 30 percent held by private investors in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

About SABIC in Europe

In Europe, SABIC has 13 world-scale production facilities which manufacture innovative plastics, polyethylenes, polypropylenes and chemical products. Throughout Europe, SABIC employs approximately 6000 people.

The main European offices for three of SABIC’s strategic business units are located in The Netherlands - Innovative Plastics (Bergen op Zoom), Polymers (Sittard) and Chemicals (Sittard). They operate an extensive network of local sales offices and logistical hubs throughout Europe which are also responsible for the sales of products manufactured elsewhere in the world.

SABIC’s European research facilities form part of the global Technology and Innovation organization and can be found in the Netherlands (Geleen and Bergen op Zoom) and Spain (Cartagena).

About Færch Plast

Færch Plast in Holstebro, Denmark, was established in 1969. Over the years the company has secured a strong market position and is well known for developing and manufacturing high-quality packaging for foods. The company extrudes film and thermoform packaging 24/7, 365 days a year. In addition to its production facilities and administration in Holstebro, the company has sales offices in the UK and in France as well as a factory in the Czech Republic. For further information, please visit www.faerchplast.dk.

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