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Sustainability

Dow and Doxa join for biobased stretch film

by Michael McCoy
May 8, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 18

 

A photo of polyethylene film.
Credit: Doxa Plast
Doxa specializes in ultrathin stretch film for packaging.

The Swedish polyethylene-film maker Doxa Plast has introduced biobased stretch film made with Dow linear low-density polyethylene. Dow produces the polymer with ethylene made in a petrochemical cracker fed in part with tall oil—a by-product of papermaking—from Finland. Doxa says the biobased film furthers its goal of offering customers carbon-neutral versions of all its products.

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