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FOOD AND BEVERAGE PACKAGING

Plastic innovations for food-contact packaging

PACKAGING THAT PERFORMS

Milliken delivers performance-driven packaging solutions that help food and beverage brands stand out. From bottles to pouches, our additives and colorants enhance shelf appeal, ensure safety, and support consumer trust—without compromising efficiency.

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Commercial Take-Away Packaging

Develop durable plastic packaging that protects food and beverage in transit and is highly compatible with polypropylene recycling infrastructure by leveraging our leading additives.

Flexible Packaging

Extend product shelf life with Milliken additive-enhanced flexible films and mono-material pouches that offer excellent barrier protection properties.

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Fresh Packaging

Showcase food in temperature-stable, durable packaging that is lightweight, crystal clear, and oriented to sustainable benefits like recycling compatibility and resource utilization characteristics enabled by our plastic additives.

Frozen Packaging

Protect your product in extreme temperatures with microwave-safe plastic packaging driven by performance additives that can be highly recyclable at the end of its intended life.

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Housewares

Harness glass-like clarity using clarifying agents to produce reusable containers that are microwave-safe, highly durable, and performance-driven

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Shelf-Stable Packaging

Maintain the quality of food and beverage products with a range of solutions that support transparent, mono-material, durable, and lightweight packaging that can be recycled

OUR CAPABILITIES AND EXPERTISE

FDA Compliant

We have a range of additives, colorants, and nucleators that are FDA compliant for food-contact purposes, a defining feature of food and beverage packaging.

Recycling Compatible

Many of our solutions align with industry best practices on end-stage recyclability and existing recycling infrastructure, meaning your packaging can harness sustainable benefits even at the end of its intended life.

Design Forward

Informed by our market expertise, we work with you to tailor a platform that accomplishes a range of product goals. From harnessing production efficiencies to creating lighter packaging, we look at the product scope and recommend solutions that bring multi-faceted benefits.

ENVISION THE POSSIBILITIES

We focus on the small stuff—so you don’t have to. Our team knows how to apply our additives, colorants, and clarifiers to help create food and beverage packaging that performs.

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SUPPORTING FOOD AND BEVERAGE PACKAGING DEVELOPMENT

Clarifying Agents

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Nucleating Agents

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Polymer Additives

FOOD AND BEVERAGE PACKAGING RESOURCES

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Collaborative Problem Solving to Increase Post-Consumer Recycled Content in Stadium Cups

A three-company collaboration focused on increasing the recycled content incorporated in stadium cups.

Unlocking a New Resin Formulation for Flexible HDPE

Milliken and NOVA Chemicals partnered to create a new resin formulation that enhanced barrier performance for HDPE.

Plastmore and Milliken Create Polypropylene Packaging for Chocolate Brand

Leveraging Milliken’s clarifying platform, this collaboration created updated packaging with improved sustainability and performance

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