Discover cutting-edge polymer solutions for packaging materials

IFF’s Industrial Solutions offers innovative polymer ingredients for packaging and specialty paper applications. The majority of our polymer solutions deliver film-forming properties, but also provide unique functionality to a wide range of packaging materials – including carton packaging for consumer goods, antistatic films, and more.

​​​​​​​Carton packaging for consumer goods

Evolving regulatory and consumer trends are establishing new requirements for carton packaging in food and food contact applications. To adhere to stringent policies, novel film barrier technologies are being developed to address challenges associated with the migration of packaging compounds into foods and other packaged consumer goods.

Our comprehensive polymer portfolio brings multiple benefits to carton package applications – including being food additive approved and acting as a film barrier for fats, oils, aliphatic and aromatic compounds, like mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH) and mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH). It’s also possible to develop customized polymer grades to meet your unique application needs.

Specialty packaging

Product Features

Functional Benefits

Excellent film-forming properties

Barrier against oils, greases, aliphatic and aromatic compounds

Newtonian to pseudoplastic rheology

Easy coating

Transparent film packaging

Alternative to non-renewable materials

Forms strong and transparent films

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Product recommendations

* Considering the many film and packaging applications, we recommend that you reach out to your IFF sales and technical representatives for further product recommendations.

Specialty packaging

Application

Recommended Product*

Notes

Grease and mineral oil barrier coating

METHOCEL™ K3

METHOCEL™ E3

20 – 80 µm coating thickness

Packaging with high water vapor permeation

ETHOCEL™ Std. 10

METHOCEL™ E15

METHOCEL™ E19

METHOCEL™ F50

20 – 80 µm coating thickness

Transparent film packaging

ETHOCEL™ Std. 10

METHOCEL™ E15

METHOCEL™ E19

METHOCEL™ F50

METHOCEL™ films remain water-soluble

Antistatic films

POLYOX™ WSR N-10

POLYOX™ up to 4.0% of the polyolefin compound

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Other film and packaging applications

Demonstrating high electrical conductivity, our POLYOX™ water-soluble polymers are ideal for anti-static films and packaging for circuit boards, as well as other sensitive electronic products. POLYOX™ polymers can be formed into flexible films, using either a thermoplastic or casting processing. The films can be developed using POLYOX™ alone or blending POLYOX™ with other polymer ingredients, such as polyethylene, polystyrene, polycaprolactone, ethylene vinyl acetate, and nylon.

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