With Folco Lac, a new water-based coating with barrier protection, Follmann offers an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic coatings. It is suitable for gravure and flexographic printing and is designed to ensure greater sustainability in the packaging industry.
Film coatings on paper and cardboard packaging make the recycling process considerably more difficult or even impossible. In order to offer packaging manufacturers an environmentally friendly alternative for plastic coatings, Follmann Water-based coatings which offer effective barrier protection against oils, greases and water.
„Our new Folco Lac brand barrier coatings, which are suitable for gravure and flexographic printing, not only make a decisive contribution to sustainability and fulfil regulatory requirements, but also meet the demands for high-quality printing results.“ Tim Schwier, Team Leader New Business Development at Follmann
Folco Lac suitable for different products and applications
The new barrie coatings from Follmann are already being used successfully by a French company that recently Switched from disposable plastic salad bowls to sustainable paper salad bowls has. „The coating we developed for the salad bowls was convincing in a machine test and the required barrier protection against water (COBB values), oil (KIT values) and vinegar was also proven in corresponding tests,“ says Tim Schwier.
Source: Follmann
