South Korea’s global chemical company LG Chem and Germany’s extrusion machine manufacturer Reifenhäuser are partneringto facilitate the development of competitive machine direction oriented (MDO)-PE blown films and flat films for recyclable packaging. Bernd Reifenhäuser, CEO of the Reifenhäuser Group, says: “The demand for flexible monomaterial packaging is growing rapidly. But MDO-PE films must be stable and economical to produce in order to make the leap from a niche to a broad market.”