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The new edition of BASF's innovation podcast "Chemistry of Innovations" talks about a special plasticizer for the application in toys, medical devices and food contact applications.
Wherever people have physical contact with synthetic materials, then the material has to be extremely safe. Especially in applications such as foodstuff packaging, medical equipment and children's toys. Without chemical additives like plasticizers all PVC-(Polyvinylchloride) products that are soft and plastic would be in fact fragile and brittle like an uncooked noodle. As such plasticizers and PVC are not permanently connected by chemical means, but rather the connection is only physical. Due to manual stress or exposure to liquids the plasticizers could leave the PVC. The special plasticizer Hexamoll DINCH developed from BASF has a far more permanent connection with the PVC molecules. This makes it very well suitable for the use in sensible applications like children's toys, medical equipment and foodstuff packaging.
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