State-of-the-art packaging adhesives
Providing adhesive solutions that improve products and processes in various industrial contexts, packaging in primis, and that allow to solve customers' sustainability challenges. The expertise of H.B. Fuller, a leading manufacturer of adhesives, is at the service of the increasingly complex world of packaging.
Guided by its drive for innovation, in order to face market demands, H. B. Fuller has set up its Adhesive Academy in Lüneburg: a facility dedicated to the study of packaging adhesives, where R&D professionals and application experts have access to state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and technical halls containing industry-recognized equipment.
It is a technical center of excellence, focal point for the multinational’s R&D, set up to facilitate collaboration with customers, raw material suppliers and other industry partners, with the objective of solving problems and tackling the need for rapidly and effectively developing new adhesives. The available structures allow indeed to simulate near-industry conditions for rigorous product testing and the pilot batch production facilities enable agile, small-scale industrial evaluations.
Sustainability for food and beverage packaging
Although adhesives are considered "small" components of packaging, they play a key role in ensuring its performance and functionality and, at the end of its life, facilitating its recycling. Thus, adhesives have a great impact on packaging and labeling operations. Correct adhesive optimization can make these processes more efficient, offering many opportunities for improvement. The adhesive directly impacts the on-shelf aesthetics and recycling or reuse process.
Advantra® for Cardboard Packaging. Advantra hot melt adhesives provide a toolbox of solutions to improve the sustainability of packaging. Products include low application temperature hot melts, food safe adhesives with extremely low migration profiles, palletization hot melts, and adhesives with high rates of bio-based materials. These solutions offer the opportunity to reduce tertiary packaging and the amount of pallet shrink-wrap packaging offering both financial and sustainability savings.
Limitless possibilities for beverages. H.B. Fuller EvolutionTM and ClarityTM labeling adhesives are formulated to give you the greatest freedom. Freedom to deliver design innovation, to accelerate production and to drive recycling rates of containers via a superior wash-off performance that delivers clean containers for refilling or recycling.
Multipack bundling is among the most popular packaging methods in the beverage sector. In this field, as a leading industry partner, H.B. Fuller works with several OEMs on customized solutions such as Nature MultiPackTM and KeelClipTM for the bundling of Alu cans and PET bottles as well as a proprietary design for liquid beverage cartons.
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