Polyethylene is one of the most common materials in our daily lives and accounts for 40% of the total volume of world production of plastic materials. In other words, around half of the products in the sector that is generically called "plastics" is made in polyethylene.
From the chemical point of view, it is a basic plastic material, or better a semi-finished industrial material used as a raw material by companies that transform it into a range of finished goods, form the most basic to the highly sophisticated.
From a structural point of view, polyethylene is a derivative of ethylene, which in turn is a product derived from the refining of crude oil.
The oil refining process, from which petrol, diesel and LPG are obtained, creates what is known as heavy naphtas. Using a procedure called cracking, these naphtas are transformed into ethylene which, after a series of processes, becomes polyethylene. The production of polyethylene is also an economically effective and ecologically intelligent way of optimising a component of oil, the world's most important energy resource.
LDPE
LLDPE-VLDPE-ULDPE
LLDPE
HDPE
EVA
Applications
brochures
Main applications
Sacks, shopping bags, films for industrial and food packaging, greenhouse and agricultural protection films, laminates, toys, paper and cardboard coatings, flexible containers, compounds for construction (soundproofing) and automotive industries.
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Main applications
Sacks, shopping bags, films for industrial and food packaging, greenhouse and agricultural protection films, laminates, toys, paper and cardboard coatings, flexible containers, compounds for construction (soundproofing) and automotive industries.
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Linear low-density Polyethylene.
Main applications
Sacks, shopping bags, films for industrial and food packaging, greenhouse and agricultural protection films, laminates, toys, paper and cardboard coatings, flexible containers, irrigation pipes, compounds for construction (soundproofing) and automotive industries.
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High-density polyethylene.
Homopolymers and copolymers.
Main applications
Bottles and containers (for food products, detergents and cosmetics), industrial cases, toys, household items, fuel cans, automobile fuel tanks, liquid containers, industrial packaging, film, sheets.
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Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers.
Main applications
Food packaging films, greenhouse films, footwear, tubes for home appliances, medical products, glues, sports and technical items, foams for technical packaging.
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There are many polyethylene families, each of which is further defined by different grades. Their variety ensures that we have the right product for an endless series of applications in a wide range of sectors: from packaging (primary, secondary, and tertiary, with all their peculiarities) to agriculture, construction, automotive industry, healthcare, sports and technical equipment, electrical appliances and toys. An infinite range, made even richer by our ability to tailor our polyethylene to every customer's particular needs and every application requirement.
Choose what you require from any of the following applications and Polimeri Europa will propose you the right products with a click.
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These brochures show the use of our products in a wide range of sectors: from packaging (primary, secondary, and tertiary, with all their peculiarities) to agriculture, construction, automotive industry, healthcare, sports and technical equipment, electrical appliances and toys.
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Last updated on 14/07/10