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.
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.
Product Features | Functional Benefits |
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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 |
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.
Application | Recommended Product* | Notes |
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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 |
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.
Learn more about how we can support your industrial application.