ADHESIVES & ADHESIVE APPLICATIONS
Henkel’s Christof Schmidtoutlines new company developments including a casein-free adhesive and an Eastern European technology road show
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performance spectrum. The brewing industry, for example, has relied for many years on tried and trusted water-based casein adhesives to label its glass bottles. Constantly rising prices for casein are, however, driving up the costs for these conventional labeling adhesives. Given that casein is a raw material derived from cow’s milk, the beverage industry’s adhesives budgets are also affected by sharp periodic swings. The logical alternative is to use adhesives based on synthetic polymers, which offer the additional advantages of longer storage stability and lower consumption. Up to now, however, the products available on the market showed certain limitations when compared directly with casein adhesives.
W Henkel has now introduced its new casein-free product series, Optal
XP. For the first time, synthetic adhesives are proving a high performance. In extensive long-term tests, they satisfied high customer expectations. In addition to their excellent wet tack, the synthetic Optal XP adhesives also exhibit good adhesion to chilled glass surfaces. The brewing industry can therefore turn to a powerful and economical range of products that cover the entire spectrum of bottle labeling needs, including sophisticated adhesive solutions with high ice water and condensation water resistance. Moreover, the prices of the raw materials used are less volatile than that of casein, thus reducing the budget planning stress for bottling plants.
The new-generation Optal XP adhesives also offer further economic and ecological processing advantages when it comes to labeling re- usable bottles. Deficits previously experienced with casein-free labeling adhesives have been successfully overcome through significantly improved cleaning and wash-off performance.
ITH ITS Optal XP product series, Henkel claims to have developed a completely new generation of synthetic adhesives for glass bottle labeling that offers an excellent
Flexible packages for foods are right on trend. In the past decade they were already one of the fastest-growing packaging categories. The reasons are easy to see. They offer top functionality combined with low material costs and low weight. Experts expect the market for flexible packages to keep growing in the future as well, especially in regions such as Eastern Europe. In this dynamic environment, quality expectations continue to rise significantly in the future. New sustainable packaging- solutions ensuring maximum standard in terms of food safety are required. To help prepare optimally for the challenges ahead, Henkel will stage its Liofol Academy Road Show 2011 in Moscow (April 7th-8th) and Krakow (April 12th-13th). Here, specialists can gain focused information on the technological, economic and ecological challenges facing the packaging industry. In presentations with high practical relevance, experts from the company spotlight current packaging trends, explain the legal framework conditions, and report on the latest product solutions. Experienced guest speakers from the areas of food production, dosing equipment, lamination technology as well as printing inks, will round off the programme. “Changing markets are already creating numerous challenges for packaging manufacturers. Adhesives based on latest technologies have become a decisive success factor in this respect. People are looking for innovative and sustainable solutions in order to be able to enter new markets early and keep a step ahead of the competition,” says Dieter Klewer, sales manager Liofol Eastern Europe at Henkel.
Food safety
One important focus of this year’s road show series is the food safety of flexible packages. Among others, the EU and the USA already have legislation in place stipulating that only food that is safe for human health may be put on the market. This applies to the packaging as well, where contamination of the food through hazardous substances in the packaging materials - films and foils, printing inks, or adhesives - must be reliably excluded. International food manufacturers pass on these safety requirements to their packaging suppliers and regularly test the packages for migrating constituents. But food safety is rapidly becoming a big issue with legislators outside these classic industrial nations as well, particularly in regions where rising standards of living are generating
Henkel: Optal XP casein-free adhesive
lexible packages are gaining increasingly large market shares throughout the food industry. At the same time, film/foil laminates have to meet ever more stringent technological and food law requirements. With its international series of Liofol Academy Road Show events, Henkel offers packaging manufacturers from Eastern Europe region the opportunity to learn about current challenges and about forward-looking solutions for the packaging industry.
10 Converter March 2011
Henkel: Liofol road show brings new innovation to Eastern Europe Website: ebsite:
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