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Epotal^® - our water-based adhesives for film-to-film lamination

Epotal^® adhesives allow our customers to make the most of their packaging's end of life! Flexibility, durability and sustainability can go hand in hand. Several layers of film combined with the right adhesive formulation result in packaging solutions with desirable properties, such as good mechanical stability, good printability or light impermeability.

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That’s why multilayered packaging is ideal for highly customizable products such as stand-up pouches.

A viable alternative at all performance levels, the Epotal^® product family stands out with innovative, dedicated products such as the 1C solution for medium-performance applications, home compostable adhesives and retort solutions that can even be used for digital printing processes and barrier products.

Besides the most important function of protecting food with the right packaging, we go one step further and ensure that our products enable more-sustainable end-of-life options.

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Key benefits

Flexible, durable and food-contact approved
Reduce costs
Increase flexibility
Save time
Enhance safety

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Our Epotal® adhesives enable strong differentiation on the market for our customers

Flexible, durable & food contact-approved: Our water-based adhesives offer significant benefits for your packaging products such as the reduction of costs through easier and faster handling with lower off-spec risks. They also increase flexibility by making interim storage unnecessary. Additional benefits include time savings and improved safety during and after the manufacturing process.

Reduce costs

Easier, faster handling with lower off-spec risks.

Increase flexibility

“Lean production”, no interim storage necessary.

Save time

High green strength, short lead times, practically no curing.

Improve safety

Low VOCs, no aromatic isocyanates, glymo or organic solvents.

End-of-life solutions made easy with Epotal^®

Water-based lamination adhesives enable the recycling of multi-layer packaging materials

Nowadays, end-of-life options and recyclability of packaging materials are critical topics that need to be addressed by the whole packaging industry. To meet the ambitious targets that have been set for packaging materials in the future, all players in the value chain need to get involved and work together. BASF already offers a variety of options for improving the recyclability of packaging materials through the use of Epotal^® lamination adhesives and is working with different partners to realize a number of projects relating to this topic.

The separation of multi-layer packaging materials is a recycling option that is already being used today, but one that we believe will become even more important in the future. With this approach, no compromises are necessary in terms of the technical performance of the packaging. At the same time, waste materials can be recycled after separation via the same process as used for mono-material packaging. Incorporating water-based adhesives into this process has many advantages, such as easier separation and improved recyclate quality. One of our ongoing projects involves the development of special adhesives for this recycling option.

BASF's water-based Epotal® - Recycling of multi-layer packaging materials

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BASF and BOBST: Ready-to-use systems for film-to-film lamination

BASF customers benefit from our long-standing cooperation with BOBST, one of the world’s leading suppliers of substrate processing, printing and converting equipment and services for the label, flexible packaging, folding carton and corrugated industries.

Film-to-film lamination: Recyclable paper trays by LEIPA and BASF

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Collaboration project shows: multi-layer packaging can be separated and recycled on an industrial scale

Multi-layer films are used for a wide range of packaging materials, particularly in the food industry. The European Green Deal stipulates that packaging must be recyclable to a large extent by 2030. In the future, the details will be regulated by the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

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Green Deal Challenge: Adhesives as Problem Solvers in the Packaging Industry

In this article in trade magazine adhesion, we examine how the use of adhesives can play a significant role for developing more sustainable packaging. Due to their complex structure, recycling of multi-layer packaging systems can be difficult. This is where water-based adhesive systems can offer significant advantages.

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Epotal® - our water-based adhesives for film-to-film lamination