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— APPLICATION

Polypropylene and HDPE for toys, sports and leisure

Polypropylene for toys, and HDPE, are judged by what children do to them. A toy gets thrown, stood on and left in the garden overnight in frost, and then a toddler puts it in their mouth. Leisure goods take similar knocks in the cold: a cool box falls off a car boot onto a frozen car park, a sledge hits ice. This page covers how to choose PP and HDPE for these parts and what the toy maker has to prove.

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Grey toy bucket and spade, stacking cups, a white flying disc and a small cool box with a teal lid

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— REQUIREMENTS

What a toy has to survive

Children drop, throw and chew toys. A part that cracks can leave sharp edges or small pieces that a young child could swallow, so toughness is a safety property here. Cold makes it harder. Polypropylene loses impact strength as the temperature falls, and outdoor toys, sledges and cool boxes are used below zero. Colour matters too: toys are bright and must stay bright, which takes even pigment dispersion and, outdoors, UV protection. Small parts such as the snap-fits on a construction toy need consistent shrinkage, so they still click together across production lots.

— SELECTION

HDPE for toys, and when PP fits better

  • Impact copolymer PP is the starting point for toys and leisure goods that must take knocks in the cold. Look at notched impact below zero on the data sheet, not just the room-temperature figure.

  • HDPE stays tough at low temperature and has a softer, waxier feel. It suits buckets, spades, ride-on parts and blow-moulded hollow toys. UV-stabilised types are made for toys that live outdoors.

  • PP homopolymer gives stiffness where a part must not flex, but it is brittle in the cold. Keep it for indoor parts.

  • Clarified random copolymer is for see-through parts and toy storage tubs.

A cool box needs a stiff, tough shell around its insulation, and a lid and hinge that keep working after years of use. Nucleated grades shorten cycles on high-volume small parts. The polyethylene overview covers HDPE in more detail.

— GRADES

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For outdoor toys, start with the impact copolymers and the UV-stabilised HDPE.

PP random copolymer

AdvyForm

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PP

AdvyForm R1541

PP random copolymer

AdvyForm R1541 is a random copolymer with a clarifier and antistatic additives, for injection moulding. It has very good flowability and transparency and is typically used for thin-wall packaging.

Injection moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

AdvyForm

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Velogy

PP

AdvyForm R1340

PP random copolymer

AdvyForm R1340 is a clarified random copolymer with an antistatic additive and good fluidity, for injection moulding. It combines very high transparency with very good impact strength, including at 0 °C.

Injection moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

AdvyForm

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Velogy

PP

AdvyForm R1640

PP random copolymer

AdvyForm R1640 is a clarified random copolymer with an antistatic additive, for injection moulding. It combines very good flowability with transparency and impact strength.

Injection moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

PP impact copolymer

KeyForm

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Velogy

PP

KeyForm E1030

PP impact copolymer

KeyForm E1030 is a nucleated heterophasic copolymer for injection moulding. It combines high impact performance with good stiffness.

Injection moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

KeyForm

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Velogy

PP

KeyForm E1340

PP impact copolymer

KeyForm E1340 is a nucleated heterophasic copolymer with an antistatic agent, for injection moulding. It combines a good stiffness and impact balance with medium fluidity.

Injection moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

KeyForm

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Velogy

PP

KeyForm E0800

PP impact copolymer

KeyForm E0800 is a low-fluidity impact copolymer for injection moulding. It combines very high impact strength, including at low temperatures, with good stiffness.

Injection moulding

Sheet extrusion/thermoforming

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

HDPE

KeyForm

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HDPE

KeyForm H1200

HDPE

High-density polyethylene resin for general injection moulding, with good flowability, good processability and high rigidity.

Injection moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

White plastic jerry can, grey ventilated stacking crate, a coil of white strapping band, grey pellets and a small teal drum

Industrial

KeyForm

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Velogy

HDPE

KeyForm H0401

HDPE

KeyForm H0401 is a high-density polyethylene for small blow-moulded items, including thin-wall packaging, consumer goods and toys. It combines high stiffness with high stress-cracking resistance and has a broad molecular-weight distribution.

Blow moulding

Extrusion blow moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White plastic jerry can, grey ventilated stacking crate, a coil of white strapping band, grey pellets and a small teal drum

Industrial

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

KeyForm

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Velogy

HDPE

KeyForm H0400

HDPE

KeyForm H0400 is a high-density polyethylene for small blow-moulded items, including thin-wall packaging and consumer goods. It has very high stiffness and a broad molecular-weight distribution.

Blow moulding

Extrusion blow moulding

Industries

Clear lidded storage box, white mixing bowl, measuring cups and a grey toy bucket around a teal plastic colander

Consumer goods

White plastic jerry can, grey ventilated stacking crate, a coil of white strapping band, grey pellets and a small teal drum

Industrial

White HDPE bottle, stacked milky thin-wall tubs, a squeeze tube and loose caps around a small teal jar

Rigid packaging

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— PROCESSING

Injection and blow moulding

Most toys are injection moulded, often in family tools that make several different parts in one shot. That favours grades with steady flow, so every cavity fills alike. Hollow toys and small bottles are extrusion blow moulded from HDPE with a broad molecular-weight distribution, which gives the parison its melt strength. Colour usually goes in through masterbatch; ask your masterbatch supplier for its own toy-safety statement too.

Injection moulding

Extrusion blow moulding

— DOCUMENTATION

Toy safety documentation

The duty sits with the toy maker. Before a toy is placed on the EU market, its maker must analyse its chemical, physical, mechanical and other hazards (Directive 2009/48/EC, Article 18), test it, usually against EN 71-1 for mechanical and physical properties and EN 71-3 for migration of certain elements, and affix the CE marking. Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 replaces the Directive from 1 August 2030. Producers can state a grade's position on the chemical requirements, and we pass that statement on.

— FAQ

Common questions

What is the right plastic for cool boxes?

Can I use PP for sports equipment?

Is a toy-safety statement for the resin enough?