Crodamide Slip & Anti-block

2012 customer presentation

Contents
Introduction What are Crodamide slip & anti-block additives? How do Crodamide additives work?

The Crodamide range

Applications and performance data Further information

Introduction
Polymer surfaces often exhibit high friction High friction can cause a number of difficulties in:
Winding of film rolls Bag production Packaging operations Mold release

Additives are required to reduce surface friction

What are Crodamide slip & anti-block additives

The Crodamide range includes a variety of slip & anti-block additives:
Primary amides Secondary amides Secondary bis-amides

They can be incorporated directly into the polymer during the extrusion proces Crodamides are migrating additives that move to the polymer surface on cooling

Lower friction is achieved between contacting polymer surfaces from a solid

lubricating layer on the surface

How do Crodamide additives work?

The Crodamide range

Product Name
Crodamide ER Crodamide OR Crodamide ORX Crodamide VRX Crodamide 203

Chemical description
Erucamide Oleamide Oleamide Oleamide Oleyl palmitamide

Physical form at 25
Pastille / bead Microbead / powder Pastille / microbead / powder Pastille / microbead Bead / powder Bead

Raw material origin

Vegetable Non-vegetable Non-vegetable Vegetable Vegetable

Primary effect
High slip High slip High slip High slip Medium slip

Crodamide 212
Crodamide EBO Crodamide BR Crodamide SR Crodamide SRV Crodamide EBS Crodamide EBSV

Stearyl erucamide
Ethylene-bis-oleamide Behenamide Stearamide Stearamide Ethylene-bis-stearamide Ethylene-bis-stearamide

Bead
Bead Bead Bead / powder Bead / powder Microbead / powder Bead / powder

Vegetable
Vegetable Vegetable Non-vegetable Vegetable Non-vegetable Vegetable

Medium slip
Medium slip / anti-block Anti-block Anti-block Anti-block Anti-block Anti-block

Effect of Crodamide additives on friction

Applications - slip
This is the movement of a polymer surface against some other surface The interaction of surfaces can be polymer to polymer, polymer to metal or polymer to glass

High slip relates to a low friction value

Slip
(measured by CoF - Coefficient of Friction)

High slip in LDPE

High slip in PP

Medium slip in LDPE

Applications anti-block
Slip and blocking are related phenomena both involving the interaction of surfaces Most Crodamides will modify the blocking performance in film to some extent

Since Crodamides form layers at the surface, they generally do not affect the
clarity of film

Anti-blocking

Anti-blocking in LDPE

Anti-blocking in coPP

Further information

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