Polypropylene calcium carbonate compound (PP with CACO3)
This compound is a suitable alternative to petrochemical sources in automotive and packaging industries due to the below specifications:
- Environmentally friendly
- High stiffness
- smoothness
- Low production cost
- Good plastic properties
Calcium carbonate improves PP properties as follows:
- Improvement of modulus
- Decreasing yield stress
- Improving tensile strength
- Accelerating crystallization and its maximum temperature
- Increasing crystallization
- Improving impact resistance
- Low cost