Dow LDPE

Brand Information

Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)

How Can Something Be Common and Unique at the Same Time?

Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) is the industry workhorse, used in applications as diverse as liners and food storage bags to shrink and collation films. It offers options for flexible packaging, caps and closures, plastic toys, and more. While some may call LDPE “general purpose” or “common,” we see it differently.

Working with customers around the world over many years, we’ve advanced LDPE to be so much more – a valuable product family that takes the typical and elevates it to something special.

Uncommon Potential

The results? Superior clarity, stiffness, and density. Improved processing and product performance. Aesthetics, printability, strength, tear resistance, and elasticity. High-speed efficiencies. Cost-competitive options for an ever-widening variety of applications, including:

• Agricultural films
• Caps and closures
• Coated paperboards
• Collation films
• Durable containers
• Extrusion coatings
• Heavy-duty shipping sacks
• High-clarity shrink films
• Lamination films
• Liners
• Multi-layer flexible packaging
• Overwraps
• Pipes
• Shopping bags
• Toys
   

DOW® Low Density Polyethylene Resins (LDPE) are more than just general-purpose polyethylene resins. They are re-emerging as a valuable product family, combining superior high-clarity films with stiffness and density favoured by converters for down-gauging films. RESINEX and DOW are solution providers in the technical, food, and specialty packaging film market with superior technical service capabilities.

Versatile Applications

Dow® LDPEs are easy to process beyond most LDPE resins, combined with improved product performance, continue to give cost-competitive solutions to converters in a wide variety of applications, including:

• Complex food packaging multilayer film structures
• Shopping bags
• Liners
• Overwraps
• Consumer bags
• Heavy-duty sacks
• Clarity shrink and collation films
• Lamination films
• Agricultural films
• Extrusion coatings
• Coated paper boards
• Injection moulding
• Caps and closures
• A variety of durable products such as toys
• Compounding
   

Packaging Applications

In packaging applications, DOW® LDPE Resins offer:

• Excellent aesthetics
• Printability
• Strength
• Tear resistance
• Elasticity
   

They can be processed on today’s high-speed lines for use as film, coatings, or laminations, and blend easily with DOWLEX® LLDPE Resins for customised performance on mono-layer lines or in blends. In cost-sensitive health and hygiene markets, Dow® LDPE Resins can improve processing efficiencies.

For the flexible medical and pharmaceutical market, Dow offers DOW® LDPE Health+® to produce films, blow-fill-seal bottles and ampoules, and blow-moulded small bottles, among others.

Regardless of the kind and size of an application, the important partnership of RESINEX, DOW, and you as the customer will provide the most economical, most sustainable, most profitable, and best-performing solution in your country, in your market, and in your application.