Polypropylene: An Emerging Alternative to PET

Table of Contents:

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1.1. Purpose and Intent
1.2. Background
    • PET — Benchmark & Target
    • Polypropylene — Presence and/or Threat
1.3 Driving Forces
1.4 Limiting Factors
    • Market Barriers
1.5. Cost-reduction Possibilities
1.6 Market Opportunities
    • Hot-fill, Aseptic, Retort
1.7. Forecasts
1.8. Conclusions

2.1. Objective
2.2. Definitions
2.3 Market Segments
2.4 Background

3.1. Historical
3.2. Resin Manufacture
3.3. Characteristics & Properties
3.4. Acceptance & Market Penetration
3.5. Selected Suppliers

4.1. Historical
4.2. Polymer Types & Manufacture
4.3. Product Design Versatility & Properties
4.4. Selected Suppliers

5.1. Extrusion Blow Molding
5.2. Injection Blow Molding
5.3. Injection-stretch Blow Molding

6.1. Current Advances in Technologies
6.2. Processing Technique Influences Clarity
6.3. The Importance of Controlling Crystallinity
6.4. Key Product Types & Selected Suppliers
6.5. Properties & Characteristics
6.6. Current Applications
6.7. Pricing Considerations

7.2. Gas Permeability
7.3. Rigidity and Stiffness
7.4. Creep Resistance
7.5. Cold-temperature Impact
7.6. Productivity

8.2. Enhanced Barrier Solutions
    • Multilayer, O2, Coatings
8.3. Nanocomposites
8.4. Polymer Development and Modification
8.5. Process Optimization

9.1. Cost Reduction — The Driver for Substitution
9.2. The Ideal Goal — Maximizing Low Cost & Low Density
9.3. Current Realities — Key Influences on Polypropylene Cost — Polypropylene's Limitations and Cost Influences
9.4. Basis for Economic Analyses
    • Assumptions for Comparative Analyses
9.5. Polypropylene Cost-reduction Possibilities and Highlights Cost-reduction Scenarios
9.6. Detailed Cost Summaries

10.1. An Enormous & Expanding Target Market
10.2. PET Markets in No. America & Europe
10.3. PET Market Segments and Trends
    • Beverages
    • Carbonated Soft Drinks
    • Bottled Water
    • New Age Drinks
    • Milk
    • Alcoholic Beverages
    • Custom Containers — Food/Non-food
10.4. PET Market Outlook in No. America
10.5. Emerging Polypropylene Applications & Opportunities, Viability, Acceptance, Boundaries, Applications
10.6. Forecast for Polypropylene

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.2.1 No. American Market for Rigid Containers by Material Type
1.5.1 Monolayer Container Costs Polypropylene vs. PET (16-oz, 43 mm — 150 million/year)
1.5.2 Multilayer Container Costs Polypropylene vs.Heat-set PET (16-oz, 43 mm — 150 million/year)
1.6.1 PET for Bottles & Containers/No. Am. by Market Segment
1.7. 1 Polypropylene Forecast, 2007 to 2012

3.3.2 Key Characteristics of PET vs. Polypropylene & HDPE
3.4.1 PET Beverage Applications
3.4.3 PET Multilayer Bottles (EVOH Barrier)
3.4.4 PET Blow Molding, Standard vs. Heat-set
3.4.5 PET Bottle Weights, Standard vs. Hot-fill

4.3.1 Polypropylene Typical Physical Properties

5.1.1 Extrusion Blow Molding
5.2.1 Injection Blow Molding
5.2.2 Co-injection System
5.3.1 Reheat-stretch Blow Molding

6.1.1 Clarified Polypropylene's Position vs. Competitors
6.3.1 Nucleated vs. Clarified Polypropylene
6.4.1 Polypropylene Nucleating Agents and Clarifiers
6.4.2 Sales of Nucleating/clarifying Agents
6.5.10 Polypropylene & PET Appearance
Characteristics for Blow Molded Bottles
6.5.11 Polypropylene & PET Preforms & Bottles

7.1.1 Physical Properties of Polypropylene vs. PET
7.1.2 Characteristics of Polypropylene vs. PET
7.1.3 Comparative Permeation Rates of Polypropylene vs. PET

8.2.2 O2 Transmission Rates of EVOH and Selected Resins
8.2.5 Gamma Clear — Properties vs. Multilayer PET
8.2.6 Plasmax Plasma Impulse Chemical Vapor Deposition
8.2.7 Bairocade ® vs. EVOH
8.2.8 Clarified Polypropylene — O2 Barrier Improvement with Bairocade ® Coating
8.3.2 Effect of Nanoclays on Polypropylene
8.5.1 Preform Designs — Stretch Blow Molded Bottles
8.5.2 Quartz Infrared Oven — Polypropylene Preforms
8.5.5 Polypropylene Physical Properties — Injection-stretch Blow Molded Bottles vs. Extrusion Blow Molded Bottles

9.3.2 Historical Pricing Comparison
9.3.3 Monolayer Container Costs, Polypropylene vs. PET
9.3.4 Polypropylene Preform Cycle Sensitivity
9.5.4 Monolayer Costs (16-oz, 43 mm)
9.5.5 Multilayer Costs, Polypropylene vs. Heat-set PET
9.5.6 Comparative Costs for Barrier Enhancement in Hot-fill Containers
9.6.1 Cost Analyses (16-oz, 43 mm) PET Monolayer ISBM 33g
9.6.2 Cost Analyses (16-oz, 43 mm) PET Monolayer Heat-set ISBM 35g
9.6.3 Cost Analyses (16-oz, 43 mm) Polypro Monolayer ISBM 22g
9.6.4 Cost Analyses (16-oz, 43 mm) Polypro Monolayer ISBM 28g
9.6.5 Cost Analyses (16-oz, 43 mm) Polypro ISBM 33 grams
9.6.6 Cost Analyses (16-oz, 43 mm) Polypro Monolayer — ISBM 35g
9.6.7 Cost Analyses Hot-fill Juice (16-oz, 43 mm) PET Multilayer Heat-set /Barrier Est. 35g
9.6.8 Cost Analyses Hot-fill Juice (16-oz, 43 mm) PET Multilayer Heat-set/Barrier Est. 35g
9.6.9 Cost Analyses Hot-fill Juice (16-oz, 43 mm) Polypro Multilayer Min. Est./Barrier 30g
9.6.10 Cost Analyses Hot-fill Juice (16-oz, 43 mm) Polypro Multilayer Max. Est./Barrier 30g

10.2.1 No. Am./W. European Consumption/PET Solid-state Resins
10.2.2 Consumption/Growth Forecasts of PET Solid-state Resin by Segment
10.4.1 Consumption of PET for Bottles/Containers in No. Am.
10.5.3 Polypropylene Juice Applications
10.5.4 Emerging Polypropylene Injection-stretch Blow Molding Applications
10.6.1 Polypropylene Forecast, 2007 to 2012