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Coatings help to reduce the environmental impact of packaging material

This has led to renewed interest in paper-based packaging. In combination with suitable coatings, they can offer the required barrier and heat-seal functionality needed for many packaging applications.

Paramelt (Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands) provides two key platforms enabling the creation of high-performance packaging papers whilst maintaining the benefits of this highly attractive substrate:

Paraflex Nowax – Renewable vegetable-based coatings

Paper functionalised with Paramelt’s Paraflex Nowax coatings, yields equivalent barriers to polyethylene whilst remaining inherently biodegradable. These coatings are applied in the same way as wax-coatings, and can be used in a wide range of packaging applications. They offer a solution for all ‘end of life’ scenarios, be that landfill, littering, recycling or composting.

Aquaseal – Waterbased polyolefin dispersions of conventional extrusion-grade plastics

Although 10-12 grammes of plastic per square metre of paper is often enough to achieve heat seal and barrier performance, it is difficult to consistently apply such thin layers with extrusion techniques. A thinner, water-based coating, which can be applied using conventional coating and printing techniques, will inherently yield a lower overall MVTR but this is frequently sufficient for the target application. The heat-seal functionality remains, but more importantly, the packaging material remains fully repulpable and recyclable via existing waste streams using appropriate processes.

Next to these novel products to functionalise paper-based packaging, Paramelt also offers adhesive products for various applications:

• EXCELTA (PO-based) and PLASTOMELT (EVA- or EBA-based) hot melt adhesives for end-of-line packaging, tray forming and box closing applications.

• PLASTOFLEX pressure sensitive adhesives for the production of e-commerce bags, document envelopes, window bags and various other applications.

• MULTICOLLAC and LATYL water-based adhesives for labelling applications in the beverage and food industry.

• ENZIFLEX and LATYL water-based adhesives for paper and board converting.

These solutions will be on display at the Paramelt booth A02B in Hall 7 at interpack 2023 in Düsseldorf.

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