Basell is launching a new metallocene-based Metocene polypropylene (PP) copolymer, Clyrell EM248U, and will target this material to processors of clear, thin-wall, injection-molded (TWIM) food applications in the United States. (The grade was introduced in Europe last year under the developmental name of Clyrell EM1791.)

New freezer-grade PP resin from Basell for IML ice cream tub helps Wells’ Dairy achieve ‘fastest-growing in category’ status for Blue Bunny brand

A switch by Wells’ Dairy, Inc., Le Mars, IA, to an elliptical in-mold labelled (IML), injection molded, polypropylene (PP) 56-ounce container for its Blue Bunny brand has helped make it the U.S.’s fastest growing packaged ice cream in the past year.