Sustainable packaging

Polymers and additives for sustainable packaging

In the packaging market, there are many goals. Goals include enhanced performance, saving energy, faster run speeds, increasing board strength, light weighting and landfill diversion.

BASF offers the packaging industry a wide range of materials and solutions. Innovation, performance, and safety have always been guiding principles for BASF in all its research and development activities.

Below, you will find more about our solutions, product lines, and resources to enable your operations today.

Key features and benefits

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ecovio® – compostable polymers with biobased content

Compostable and recyclable

With ecovio, BASF is offering an ecological innovation with a fully compostable new polymer. Under commercial compost conditions, ecovio degrades within weeks, leaving no residues. It is composed of our proprietary ecoflex® and PLA and consists of more than 70% renewables.

ecovio^® is a high-quality and versatile bioplastic of BASF. The primary advantage is that it is certified compostable with bio-based content. It also enables the proportion of recycled paper fibers in food service packaging to be increased. ecovio has been developed for coating paper and paper board. Applied to both paper and board packaging elements by coextrusion, this unique product enables the manufacture of 100% wax and fluorocarbon free food service items, such as wrappers and clamshells, which can be composted. ecovio coating allows you to manufacture in conformity with food safety and environment friendly standards.

ecovio® provides barrier protection to:

Oil and grease

Aroma

Mineral Oil

ecovio is:

a finished compound

certified compostable worldwide

has a variable biobased content

is printable and weldable

Barrier performance

BASF offers a wide range of resins for functional and sustainable barrier effects.
Barrier effects include water, oil and grease resistance, MVTR, and migration for the production of paper products that satisfy functional and repulpability requirements.

Joncryl HPB 1631-A - A water-based, low-MVTR barrier coating product for paper and board packaging.

Performance highlights

Products for various barrier needs
Reduced blocking tendency
Performance and repulpability in mill and converter operations
Rivals water and oil and grease resistance as compared to standard SA and SB latex

Sustainability highlights

Repulpable and recyclable solution to PE
Re-dispersable water based barrier resins
Low VOC and low odor resins
FDA approvals
Compostability certifications

Strength and lightweighting

BASF offers strength and lightweighting for your legacy operations. We offer corrugated adhesion promoters as well as PE binding primers.

Performance highlights

Improved bond strength at faster run speeds for corrugated
Reduced delamination
Anchorage of water-repellent materials (i.e. polyethylene) and nitrocellulose lacquers to paper, cellophane, and aluminum foil
Quick dry times

Sustainability highlights

Recyclable and repulpable
FDA approvals
No hazardous ingredients

Resources

Technical Support

As a BASF customer, you will have the benefit of being assigned technical support staff to assist you throughout the relationship. Our staff are strategically located throughout the country to ensure timely access to visit and bring expertise to you at your facilities.

Research and Development

Our employees are engaged in about 3,000 research and development projects at approximately 70 locations. Thanks to our close cooperation with numerous partners from academia and business, we have created an international and interdisciplinary Know-How Verbund. At BASF, we innovate with our customers.

BASF Memberships

BASF is actively involved in many packaging industry organizations to support the future of packaging. These memberships included, but are not limited to, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, the Foodservice Packaging Institution, and the Green Sports Alliance.