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Article: Scent suppliers smell potential in plastics.
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- August 4, 2008
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Byline: Roger Renstrom
Brand owners, fragrance and flavor purveyors, and polymer processors are creating a range of plastic products incorporating scent with or without the use of compounding.
Plastics "is one of the lesser-known applications of scent,'' and holds huge potential, said Harald Vogt, founder and chief marketer for the Scent Marketing Institute in Scarsdale, N.Y.
"Scented polymer resins find their way into the manufacturing process of garbage bags to counteract odors,'' Vogt said. "They go into plastic caps of products such as water bottles where they help generate and/or increase the flavor of the products.''
Vogt noted ...