Chemicals for Safe Plastic Products – TA YA Canvas Looks back Cooperation with LANXESS

By Joyce Pan

LANXESS is a long-term partner of TA YA Canvas Corporation, a professional manufacturer and exporter specializing in PVC coated and laminated flex banner, industrial and air-tight material, one of the largest producers in China with more than 26 years’ experience.
Sticking to the company spirit of quality, trust, efficiency and innovation, TA YA Canvas has its footprints all over the world, providing global clients with various products featuring stable quality and strong adaptability. Serving as a trustworthy partner, LANXESS has been supplying TA YA Canvas with high performance plasticizers, flame retardants and bonding agents for many years. LANXESS Mesamoll?, produced by Rhein Chemie Additives business unit, is a plasticizer with superior plasticizing capability that boosts faster gelling behavior and the ability to be processed at lower temperature, providing an ideal solution for plastics and textile processing. By using Mesamoll?, TA YA Canvas is able to reduce its production and processing time while optimizing manufacturing costs. TAYA’s products formulated with Mesamoll? are more durable because of their excellent chemicals resistance and weathering properties especially in outdoor application.
LANXESS Disflamoll? range aromatic phosphate esters offer PVC coatings which combine flame retardancy and other advantages. Furthermore, LANXESS’s bonding agents also play an important role in realizing TA YA’s perfect quality. LANXESS bonding agents improve the bond strength and adhesion of flexible PVC coatings, allowing a wide range of applications of canvas including truck cover, tent, advertising billboard, banner flag, swimming pool, inflatable material for boat and toy, treadmill, etc.
While quality and performance are key factors of TA YA’s consistent purchase of LANXESS products, the joint efforts and common will to create sustainable daily life also contribute to the long-lasting cooperation. The pressing environmental and ecological challenges in recent years have aroused increasing attention and concern from the public. Plastic as a common material can be found in many consumer goods that people touch and smell every day. The safety of plastic products thus has become a big concern. For instance, inferior plastic toys can be very harmful to children when they touch and lick the toys. Adults do not spare from hazardous chemicals contained in the plastic too, be it plastic plates, instant noodle bows or drinking water bottles.   
Characterized by phthalate-free, LANXESS plasticizers and bonding agents help to generate safe plastic products. Mesamoll?, for example, has been chosen by many customers as an alternative to phthalate-based plasticizers. Phthalate is a chemical that is widely used in consumer goods such as toys, food package, nail polish, soap, shampoo and plastic gloves. However, according to the study, phthalate places huge damage to human health. By breathing or touching, phthalate can aggressively influence human organs and internal systems and ultimately lead to severe disease even cancer. Some developed countries such as EU, Japan and USA have already realized the risk and taken actions accordingly. “LANXESS’ solutions with reliable performances bring added value for us and our customers,” said Mr. I-Chien Lin, general manager from TA YA Canvas.
In response to the call for healthy and safety goods, LANXESS presents Mesamoll? with its friendliness to human health. It has been classified by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as posing no risk to humans when used in food contact applications such as dry and water-based foodstuffs.
China starts comparatively late with regard to the safety of food and consumer goods. However, China is to release a revised national standard of plastic toys which will take effective from January 2016. The new standard sets restrictions on 6 kinds of plasticizers including DBP. It is no doubt that China will spend continuous efforts on promoting harmless materials and screen out inferior and outdated ones, with an ultimate goal to create a sustainable and harmonious society.   
Having its products 100% exported, TA YA Canvas benefits from LANXESS high performance additives to meet the strict standards in many countries. “For years we have been making efforts to develop various plastic applications and have extensive know-how,” said Hak Leong Chok, Vice President, Sales Greater China and ASEAN ANZ region of the Rhein Chemie Additives business unit. “We develop and manufacture non-toxic chemicals that serve a variety of purposes and meet the highest safety standards. In this way, we make products safer and reduce carbon footprint.”