BOPS is the universal abbreviation of BIAXIAL ORIENTED POLYSTYRENE, which is a new type of polymer environmental friendly packaging.Modern Biaxial Oriented Polystyrene packaging has long been preferred material of the foodservice industry because it insulates better, keeps food fresher longer, creates outstanding gloss, costs less than alternative products and uses less resources. With todays growing concerns about the environment and climate change, BOPS packaging solutions are becoming more recognized as environmentally preferable for many reasons including their lightweight.
Characteristics of BOPS
1)Great transmittance and transparency)
With great transmittance and glossness, BOPS allows people to see delicious food clearly inside through the beautiful packaging, and enhances pepople's purchasing desire.
2)High hardness, great rigidity
With high hardness and great rigidity, BOPS can provide better protection for the packaged products. When used to produce molding products in same loading-bearing requirement, the sheet of OPS can be thinner than that of other materials, which can greatly save the material cost.
3) Light specific gravity
The specific gravity of BOPS material is only 1.05g/m3, while the one of PET material is 1.37g/ m3. To produce equal volume of sheet, the consumption of OPS material is 23.4% less than that of PET material. The material cost of BOPS is cheaper.
