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Kuraray is the world's first manufacturer to commercialize the use of EVAL high-performance resin. Featuring a high gas barrier function, it shuts out oxygen, thereby offering protection against deterioration and degradation, making it suitable as an inner layer in packaging material, not only for mayonnaise, ketchup, and a wide range of foods available in retort pouches, but also cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. By showing EVAL's effectiveness in preventing the leakage of evaporated hydrocarbons in automobile plastic fuel tanks, we have opened up new areas of demand, particularly overseas.

A film produced from EVAL resin, EVAL film, is widely used as a packaging material for such foods as processed meats, fish and soybean paste as well as for stain-resistant wallpaper.