NOVA Chemicals - Frozen Food Containers and Microwave Packaging, EPS Cups and Containers

NOVA Chemicals produces plastics and chemicals that are essential to everyday life. Our employees develop and manufacture resins for producers of consumer, industrial and packaging products. NOVA Chemicals has been servicing the food packaging industry for more than 40 years and is committed to being an innovator of polymers in this area.

POLYMER FOOD PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY

Our technologies allow us to produce polymers that can be tailored to meet an array of food packaging needs. Through research and development, we design new polymers that meet the needs of our customers, their customers and the ever-changing demands of consumers.

We partner with key players throughout the industry, including brand owners, distributors, packaging designers, food processors, and packaging converters to understand the food industry's challenges for today - and more importantly tomorrow.

From pellets to the consumer, we design polymers to help resolve challenges and create opportunities for new innovations in packaging. Our products create opportunities to develop new food packaging applications with existing equipment; give brand owners unique alternatives for packaging design and brand differentiation and offer consumers expanded options for convenience, value and safety that help to simplify their busy lifestyles.

Our suite of offerings continues to expand and includes new resins introduced in 2005, including the copolymer resins DYLARK® FG for freezer to microwave packaging and ZYLAR® EX for refrigerated and frozen packaging. We also supply technology offering Image™ "in mold labeled" expandable polystyrene cups and containers.

COPOLYMER RESIN FOR MICROWAVE PACKAGING - DYLARK® FG

A high-heat SMA copolymer resin for microwave packaging, requiring 'freezer to microwave' performance. DYLARK FG resins provide superior low temperature toughness, thermal stability and Environmental Stress Crack Resistance (ESCR) performance making it ideal for food packaging and food service applications. Food containers made with DYLARK FG provide enhanced toughness in the freezer and superior stiffness at high temperatures - reducing the danger of leakage or spillage when hot food is removed from the microwave or brought home in the car.

The versatility of DYLARK FG resins provide a wide range of options in either solid, foam or clear containers, for applications such as take-out / carry-out and home meal replacement.

COPLOYMER RESIN FOR REFRIGERATED AND FROZEN PACKAGING - ZYLAR® EX

A clear acrylic copolymer resin developed to provide a high level of clarity for aesthetics, excellent cold temperature toughness, and a balance of impact strength and stiffness in packaging products, for refrigerated and frozen food applications. The clarity of ZYLAR EX enables consumers to see the quality of the food they purchase, while its toughness protects the food in the freezer or refrigerator.

EPS CUPS WITH IMage™ technology

EPS cups and containers made with patent-pending IMage technology are molded and labeled in a single step. IMage cups and containers exhibit features such as enhanced graphics, superior insulation, and excellent structural integrity and strength.

IMage technology is one of NOVA Chemicals most recent downstream business development projects. IMage technology is a unique technology that sets a new standard in the premium cup and container market by delivering a revolutionary combination of outstanding graphics, hot and cold insulation and excellent rigidity resulting in a safer-to-handle cup of coffee that has a "cool" image giving consumers a positive beverage experience. Cups and containers made with IMage technology eliminate the need for 'double-cupping' or protective paper sleeves.

POLYMER PACKAGING MATERIALS

Combining an understanding of end-users' unmet needs with unique technology led NOVA Chemicals to introduce new polymers into the marketplace. We continue to work with market leaders in order to combine their market access and market needs with our unique polymers to create resins and technologies that create value through packaging.