Adhesives

Elopak and GLS have today announced a joint venture in which the two companies will each have 50% ownership. The newly formed company, GLS Elopak (headquartered at Gurugram in Haryana, India) will leverage the respective expertise, assets and networks of Elopak and GLS to capitalize on the significant consumer demand in India.

According to BASF, the new adhesives, Acronal RCF 3705 and Acronal RCF 3706, are designed to be easily removed early in the recycling process for paperboard and cardboard streams. Both adhesives have been certified by the German research and service institute, Papiertechnische Stiftung (PTS), as not interfering with the recycling of transport boxes. 

Uwe Düsterwald, project manager of sustainability in adhesives at BASF, comments: “As we work to achieve worldwide climate neutrality, greater circularity and more effective recycling are a must.

The coalition of physicians, scientists, and public health and environmental organizations is calling on the agency to rescind its approvals for BPA in adhesives and coatings and set strict limits on its use in food-contact plastics. They warn the new safe level for BPA ‒ based on recent scientific evidence ‒ is more than 5,000 times below what FDA says is safe for most Americans.

"We are driven by the very present need to reduce CO₂ emissions and look after the world around us, and so too are our customers”, says Iñaki Sigler, H.B. Fuller's Global Product Manager for Woodworking and Composites. "This inspires us to continually explore new avenues to reduce our products' environmental footprint and encourage our supply chain to do the same. Together with our partner, Covestro, we see this new, strategic product development as an investment in all our futures and a commitment to a more sustainable world."

The laminating adhesive targets converters manufacturing applications such as snacks,ready-meals and stand-up pouches for juice among others.

Greater bond strength

Kay Boakye-Yiadom market manager, Laminating adhesives, Dow Packaging and Speciality Plastics, said it is the first breakthrough innovation in solvent base in over a decade.

“Historically, converters have had to accept some tradeoffs when using solvent-borne adhesive , i.e lower green bond, lower bond strength, lower temperature and product resistance,” he said.

According to the company, the flexible packaging industry is focused on addressing end-of-life issues, such as recyclability and composability. The adhesive holds the entire structure together and, to make the whole package compostable, the adhesive must also be compostable.

The new Flextra Evolution SF1000CP/XR2000CP is a 2K solventless adhesive that offers excellent design benefits, such as sound-dampening and adhesion to a variety of biodegradable film substrates from bar wrap to snack packaging.

“As a company committed to making healthy snacking more accessible, Fresh Cravings is proud to now offer our hummus line to Kroger shoppers,” said Jay Whitney, chief marketing officer of FoodStory Brands, which owns Fresh Cravings. “We continue to see interest grow in plant-based food and sustainable packaging. We pushed ourselves to introduce a hummus with 100 per cent recyclable packaging to meet these demands.”

Conventional pressure-sensitive acrylic adhesives commonly used in modern medical tapes tend to exhibit low moisture permeability and to easily trap heat and water vapors released from the skin. This often leads to skin irritation, skin maceration, rashes and even bacterial growth. To address this issue, Toyochem researchers applied its advanced resin synthesis technology to form a polymeric composition that substantially raises the moisture permeability rate of the adhesive layer.