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Packaging Adhesives

Packaging is often the consumer’s first point of contact with a product.

Challenges for packaging manufacturing include ensuring strong bond strength between films and selecting the right adhesives to provide optimal transparency, glossiness, and function while meeting regulatory requirements. Whether the focus is on the look and feel or the performance characteristics of packaging material, BASF offers adhesive dispersions for a broad range of packaging applications for varying performance grades.

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Film-to-Film Lamination

BASF’s packaging solutions: raw materials for film to film lamination for varying performance grades.

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Glossy Film Lamination

BASF’s packaging solutions: raw materials for glossy film lamination for varying performance grades.

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Functional Coatings

BASF’s packaging solutions: raw materials for functional coatings for varying performance grades.

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Epotal^®

Our water-based Epotal^® lamination adhesives enable our customers to create flexible, durable and food-safe packaging with more sustainable end-of-life options.

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Sustainability meets Adhesives

Safe and sustainable chemicals are key to reducing emissions and enabling circularity. The adhesive industry needs to move quickly, due to a rising number of upcoming regulations emanating from the European Green Deal. BASF can help you navigate these dynamics – with its adhesive chemistry, application, and regulations expertise.

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Technical Information: Preservation of Polymer Dispersions

Covering the selection of biocides for preservation to proper handling and storage techniques, ensuring the stability and quality of water-based polymer dispersions throughout their shelf life. Whether you are involved in production, packaging, transportation, or storage of polymer dispersions, this information will help you maintain optimal microbiological quality and ensure the longevity of your products.

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Technical Information: Handling and Storage of Polymer Dispersions

Polymer dispersions are increasingly processed in various industries. Bulk delivery by road or rail tanker is more convenient for processing facilities. This Technical Information provides an overview of the advantages of bulk delivery and requirements for storage tanks. It also describes measures for handling bulk deliveries of polymer dispersions.

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EU Regulations: How to make your packaging PPWReady

With the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), the flexible packaging industry is undergoing major transformation, bringing both challenges and opportunities. In the shift toward fully recyclable laminated packaging, water-based adhesive solutions offer a fast track to safety and compliance - not just for today, but for the future.

Illustration comparing the life cycle of laminated packaging before and after the implementation of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). The "before" side shows a linear process ending in disposal. The "after" side depicts a circular life cycle, where laminated packaging is collected, recycled, and reused, reflecting the goals of the PPWR to reduce waste and promote sustainability.

How to protect your license to operate: Tackling PAA in laminated packaging

What most people know: The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) will require plastic packaging to be recyclable and to contain recycled materials by 2030. What few realize: Your packaging’s market viability could be at serious risk if harmful substances - such as primary aromatic amines (PAA) - are formed during the recycling process.

Technical Information: Preservation of Polymer Dispersions

Covering the selection of biocides for preservation to proper handling and storage techniques, ensuring the stability and quality of water-based polymer dispersions throughout their shelf life. Whether you are involved in production, packaging, transportation, or storage of polymer dispersions, this information will help you maintain optimal microbiological quality and ensure the longevity of your products.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Schiele reelected to 4evergreen alliance Steering Group

The 4evergreen industry alliance brings together leading companies from across the entire fibre-based packaging value chain. Their joint goal: to raise the overall recycling rate of this packaging type to 90% by 2030. BASF has been an active participant from the start.

Access your PCF data online

As a customer of BASF's dispersions and construction additives business, you can now seamlessly access our Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) statements in MyIndustryWorld online. With this service, we aim to simplify measuring your carbon footprint – because we know the effort it takes.