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Recyclable water-based coatings that confer high barrier to paper-based packaging and wraps.
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Water-based barrier coatings make it possible for brands to transition packaging from multi-material plastic films—which can be difficult to recycle—to recyclable, renewably sourced paper, without sacrificing performance. Paperization isn’t just a trend. It’s a core strategy in the shift toward packaging with improved end-of-life outcomes.
If you’re switching from film to paper, you need the right barrier coatings to ensure your product is protected. Michelman barrier coatings make it possible.
Extend the shelf life of dry foods. Coffee, soup mixes, and beverage powders require low MVTR and OTR. Michelman coatings, paired with the right paper, can meet or exceed the performance thresholds required for the typical shelf life of these products, ensuring freshness and preserving aroma.
Protect frozen and refrigerated foods from oxygen and moisture. Frozen and refrigerated foods, like vegetable salads, rely on effective oxygen and moisture protection to prolong shelf life. Michelman barrier coatings can help maintain the ideal humidity and oxygen levels, while preventing condensation in both film and paper structures.
Prevent corrosion in hard-to-hold substances. For home goods like fertilizers, insecticides, concrete, and pool chemicals, not only can humidity damage the product, but it could also create a dangerous handling situation. With the right substrate and barrier coatings, it’s possible to keep moisture, moisture vapor, and oxygen out of these structures.
Impart oil and grease resistance to foodservice packaging. Paper wraps, trays, and containers with strong OGR coatings perform better and last longer, improving the experience for quick service restaurants, meal delivery services, and back yard barbecues.
Unlock better end-of-life options for health and beauty packaging. Packaging structures for cosmetics and other health and beauty products present unique challenges. When used in combination with the right substrates, Michelman’s barrier coatings can keep powders dry, prevent oil from seeping, and retain signature scents, while eliminating the need for multi-material film packaging structures.
To successfully move from film to paper, your barrier coating must perform for your product and environment. Michelman’s barrier coatings provide essential protection.
Dry foods like coffee, soup mix, and protein powder require packaging structures with a low oxygen transmission rate (OTR) to preserve freshness and maintain shelf life. Metallized packaging structures incorporating Michelman coating systems can achieve OTRs as low as 0.1 cc/(m²·day) @ 23°C/85%RH.
Control humidity exchange to keep your dry contents dry. A moisture vapor barrier limits how much water vapor passes through the packaging. Metallized packaging structures incorporating Michelman coating systems can achieve moisture vapor transmission rates (MVTR) as low as 1 gr/(m2·day) @ 23°C/85%RH.
Without strong oil and grease resistance (OGR), fried and saucy foods, fresh baked goods, and other food service items can leave a soggy, greasy mess on consumers’ hands and surfaces. Leading food service brands trust Michelman’s barrier coating technology to provide strong oil and grease resistance with direct food contact compliance in a variety of applications.
Protect your package from external moisture like condensation or spills. A strong water resistance barrier keeps paper-based packaging from softening or losing strength in damp, frozen, and refrigerated environments.
Does your application require a different kind of protection? Contact our experts to see how we can help with aroma and mineral oil barriers, as well as thermal, mechanical, chemical, or UV resistance. With a broad portfolio of water-based coatings and hands-on application experience spanning many global markets, we’re ready to tackle your toughest packaging challenges.
Michelman’s water-based, repulpable, and PFAS-free functional and barrier coatings for fiber-based substrates can impart the requisite barrier performance without compromising the recyclability or compostability of the final package, supporting a more circular economy.
VaporCoat® products can be used as overprint varnishes (OPVs) to protect the printed surface, while also helping control the moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR).
Michem® Flex B Series offer excellent oxygen and mineral oil barrier along with good oil and grease resistance, and can also act as metallization primers for paper.
Michem® Flex HS Series are heat seal coatings that impart water and oil resistance, plus moderate MVTR, with excellent global food contact compliance.
Michelman barrier coatings aren’t just lab-tested; they’re in-market with trusted partners.
Three cutting edge solutions allow brand owners to replace multi-material, non-recyclable packaging with paper-based alternatives.
Achieve challenging oxygen and moisture barrier performance while maintaining the recyclability of both fiber- and film-based flexible packaging.
Developing end-of-life solutions to prevent cups from either ending up in a landfill or turning into litter is vitally important.
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Michem® Flex flexible packaging primers, topcoats, and barrier and heat seal coatings provide ease of converting, increased protection and …