Tritan: Safe and Sustainable - Grow Your Business Faster
Eastman from USA enables your products to meet customer demand by the crystal clarity of glass and the durability of a plastic making sustainable innovation in sport bottles, tablewares, and food service appliances across Asia.
Tritan: Shaping the Future of Food-Safe, Sustainable Plastics in Asia
Eastman is a global leader in advanced materials, helping businesses in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam bring innovative products to market faster. With over 100 years of expertise, Tritan™ is the choice of companies seeking food-safe, durable plastics with cost saving, reduce environmental impact, and meet international food-contact standards. Premium copolyester with glass-like clarity with FDA approved food-contact safety.
As a distributor of Eastman products in Southeast Asia for 50 years, Nagase & Co., Ltd. has built a long-standing relationship and a wealth of experience. This enables us to provide in-depth product knowledge and proposals tailored to solve our customers' specific challenges.
How Can the Features of Tritan™ Benefit Your Business?
By choosing Tritan from Eastman, businesses in Southeast Asia combine performance and compliance with true sustainability. With safe and innovative plastics, brands can: Reduce costs by extending product lifecycles. Meet regulatory demands with globally compliant, Food-Contact Safe materials. Build consumer trust by delivering sustainable solutions that align with modern lifestyles.
Explore Tritan™ Applications for Your Business
Tritan™ is widely used in products such as reusable sports bottles, premium tableware, and small kitchen appliances.
Why Choose Tritan™?
- Safe and Food-Contact Safe
- Extremely shatter-resistant material
- Certifications held in various countries
Tritan™ is Food-Contact Safe
Tritan™ resin is a highly safe plastic that does not contain any BPA or bisphenol chemicals.
BPA is a chemical used in certain plastics, and due to safety concerns, it is being restricted in some developed countries.
Tritan™ is often used in baby products and medical equipment, which require particular safety.
Proof of Safety
Tritan™ is Food-Contact Safe, BPA-free, and has been verified internally and by a third party.
BPA-free verification results
| Polymer | Standard Test 5 PPM LOD* | Standard Test 5 PPM LOD* |
|---|---|---|
| Tritan™ Copolyester TX1000 | Not detected | Not detected |
| Tritan™ Copolyester TX1001 | Not detected | Not detected |
*LOD: Limit of Detection. Research source: Intertek
Tritan™ is extremely shatter-resistant
This extremely strong resin was developed using proprietary technology accumulated over many years by Eastman Chemical Company.
It will not break even if run over by a car, and
of course, no dangerous fragments will fly off.
Certified as a safe resin by regulatory agencies around the world
US Food and Drug Administration
Approved for use in food contact applications.
Health Canada
Approved for use in food contact applications.
European Food Safety Authority
and European Commission
Approved for use in food contact applications.
China's Ministry of Health
Announced official listing of TRITAN as a plastic for food contact applications.
NSF International
Approved for use as part of food manufacturing equipment and drinking water generation systems.
Hygienic Olefin and Styrene Plastics Association (Japan)
TRITAN is included in the positive list.
See how Tritan solutions are making an impact:
Saizeriya Tritan™ Toughness Case Study
We spoke to Saizeriya about their reasons for adopting Tritan™, what their customers had to say, and the opinions of their staff.
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Australian bottle manufacture adopts Eastman Tritan
Promotional Product Industries (PPI) in Australia has launched the Metro Tritan™ 800-mL bottle, made from Eastman Tritan™ copolyester, offering a durable, high-quality, BPA-free option for brand promotion by companies, schools, and sports teams. PPI chose Tritan for its glass-like clarity, shatter resistance, and superior durability, washability, and resistance to taste, odor, and scratches.
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Eastman Tritan™ pours into Japan’s glass pitcher market
"King of glass” adopts Eastman Tritan™ copolyester for its water pitcher offerings.
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Tritan™ Toughness Case
Local baseball team puts Tritan™'s shatter-resistance to the test in the batting cages to see how Tritan™ copolyester stacks up next to its competitors.
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Tritan Blender Hamilton Beach Case
Tritan™ + Hamilton Beach come together to create a lightweight blender with superior durability, stain-resistance, and odor-resistance.
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Tritan Everyday Life Case: Day in the Life – Nurses
Thanks to its superior durability, chemical resistance, and the absence of BPA, Tritan is quickly becoming a material of choice in the medical industry.
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