Dow Introduces INNATE™ TF Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene Resin for a Sustainable Future in Packaging

The Dow Company announced the addition of a revolutionary addition to its INNATE™ family of precision packaging resins, INNATE™ TF biaxially oriented polyethylene resins, to meet industry demands for high performance, consumer convenience, and recyclability

Compared to conventional polyethylene films, biaxially oriented polyethylene (TF-BOPE) films offer greater toughness and stiffness, better optical and printing properties, and significant sustainability benefits, including more All-PE structure for easy recycling

More valuable advantages 

TF-BOPE films made with INNATE™ TF resins offer a number of performance advantages that will benefit the entire industry chain: 

Excellent optical properties such as high transparency and high gloss 

The haze is only 1/5 of ordinary PE film 

Has twice the impact strength and tensile modulus 

Provides three times the puncture resistance and tensile strength 

Excellent resistance to rubbing cracks even at low temperatures 

Has good tearability and ease of use 

Compared with uniaxially stretched PE film, TF-BOPE film also has significant performance improvement in optical properties, film appearance, dart impact, pinhole resistance and other physical properties, which is closer to the shelf display effect of flexible packaging and strict logistics and transportation tests.

sustainable packaging solutions 

INNATE™ TF resins have unique physical properties that can be substituted by material to achieve film structure simplification or thinning, thereby reducing packaging material usage

TF-BOPE film can be directly used in the printing layer of the packaging, and can also be used in conjunction with other PE functional layers to realize the packaging of all PE materials, which is more convenient for recycling and improves sustainability

Various applications are already available

Dow cooperates with partners in the industry chain, such as: Guangdong Deguan Film New Materials Co.

As the collaboration continues, more applications will be available soon

These successes are the culmination of more than a decade of hard work