Dispersions, Resins and Additives
Functional coatings
With Joncryl® water-based emulsions, you can pick and choose to formulate your own coating according to specific needs. Paper and paperboard coatings for primary and secondary packaging will have different performance, as well as industry requirements.
Functional, yet versatile
Whether it is food packaging, flexible packaging, corrugated board, paper or paperboard, labels, newspaper, magazines or catalogs, BASF creates chemistry to provide you and your customers with high quality raw materials for the printing and packaging industry. BASF has enhanced the breadth and depth of our expertise and technology by bringing together a winning team of knowledgeable people, innovative technologies and quality products. We offer high performance materials that meet your superior performance demands and a high level of technical support to help you develop best-in-class products for your customers.
Functional packaging
Our Functional Packaging line includes resin solutions, emulsions, dispersions and additives for barrier coatings, heat-seal lacquers, pre- and post-metallization coatings and print primers. The Functional Packaging portfolio includes materials that can be formulated for many applications and performance attributes such as grease, moisture, water resistance, ink adhesion, heat-seal lidding, direct food contact, low migration inks and OPV, high gloss, printability, low VOC and low odor, styrene free or bio-renewal content.
Energy cure
BASF offers a broad portfolio of high performance, high quality oligomers, and reactive diluents for a wide variety of energy cure inks, overprint varnishes and coatings for UV/EB curing. Laromer® oligomers determine the main properties, such as flexibility, adhesion, hardness, chemical resistance, etc., of an ink or coating. Laromer® reactive diluents are primarily used to achieve viscosities suitable for specific applications and, with careful selection, will maintain the key properties of the formulation.
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Laromer oligomers
Oligomers are moderately low molecular weight polymers that determine the most basic properties (flexibility, hardness, gloss, adhesion, etc.) of any coating, ink, adhesive, or binder crosslinked by UV curing. Within each Laromer oligomer functional group exists a variety of structural variations to modify physical properties: Laromer epoxy acrylate (EA) oligomers for hardness and reactivity; polyester acrylate (PE) for all around physical properties; urethane acrylate (UA) for flexibility, abrasion and exterior durability; polyether acrylate (PO) for viscosity; water-based acrylates (W) for viscosity, flexibility, and hardness.
Laromer reactive diluents
Monomers, primarily used as diluents for the acrylate oligomer to achieve vicosities suitable for typical application equipment, can be monofunctional or multifunctional. Like oligomers, monomers within each functional group exhibit a considerable range of performance characteristics. Laromer monofunctional monomers contain one reactive group and extend flexibility, slow cure speed and lower hardness. Laromer multifunctional monomers contain two or more reactive groups and impart a multitude of desired performances.
Did you know?
Let's talk about the elephant in the room
We use and dispose paper coffee cups, take-out, soup or frozen food containers and countless other paper and paperboard packaging items each day.
It’s a small part of our lives that creates an elephantine amount of waste in landfills. It’s time to address the problem with real alternatives to polyethylene – but first, let’s get a visual of the waste it creates.
Joncryl HPB
High Performane Barrier
BASF products offer the possiblility to formulate different coatings for barriers
These products can be mixed and used in different formulations considering the properties that are required. That means a unique finished coating and the opportunity to expand offerings for paper and paperboard packaging.
The "Kenntnis/Wissenschaft/Science" consists of knowing which substrate, caliper, coat-weight, coating method (flexo, roto gravure, rod, curtain, knife, other), and if single or multiple layers will be applied, to determine which product to use. For starting point formulations visit our Lab Assistant Tool.
What do we mean by repulpability and recyclability?
Good question!
Repulpability refers to the ability to convert paper back into pulp, whereas recyclability is generally about the capability of being processed into new paper or paperboard.
Now formulators can use Joncryl HPB solutions to create repulpable and recyclable packaging according to the Fibre Box Association (FBA) voluntary standard for corrugated boxes, internal lab testing, and third-party industrial testing.
Repulpability and recyclability depend on specific process, product, and polymer of choice. Contact a BASF expert to understand these options.