Packaging & Paper
Ever since the introduction of branded products and the appearance of
self-service supermarkets, the packaging industry has gone from strength to
strength. The technologies it uses are constantly changing and evolving – a
process in which Henkel plays a key role. Modern product packages of course
have a dual function: to protect the contents and to sell the product.
Adhesives experts from Henkel provide the solutions so that the ideas of
packaging designers can be turned into manufacturable packs.
1. Carton & Cases / End of Line
A
discipline for specialists
Exposed to anything from the blazing desert sun to the Arctic chill,
adhesives must perform perfectly in all climatic conditions, and bonded
packages must withstand a wide range of stresses before they are opened by
the consumer.
However, it is not only the requirements of the finished
package that are important. No less crucial are the processing
characteristics of the adhesive in the packaging machine. A hotmelt adhesive
has to fulfil a whole range of conditions in its particular application
situation. Rapid curing, for instance, is a must for fast packaging speeds.
Even so, open time has to be sufficiently long for the machine. The adhesive
also has to satisfy many more, often customer-specific requirements.
This requirement profile is highly exacting. Until recently,
it could only be satisfied by using different adhesives dedicated to certain
limited tasks. To solve these multiple application problems, Henkel has
developed a comprehensive product range. The adhesives systems of the
Technomelt line meet all the needs of product packaging.
In view of the rapid advances in technology, changing consumption habits and
society’s demand for sustainable, environmentally compatible production
methods, Henkel and its customers are regularly confronted with new
challenges. In consultation with raw material suppliers, machine
manufacturers and the packaging industry, Henkel is constantly refining the
Technomelt product group so that it delivers optimum performance in all the
demanded sectors.
2. Container Labelling
Make sure you‘ve got the right adhesive. For your brand‘s sake.
Clothes makes the man, labels make the brand. There‘s also something else
that is essential for product‘s success – a wafer-thin layer of Henkel
adhesive so that an attractive label bonds perfectly. Henkel is one of the
world‘s leaders in industrial adhesives and also a major manufacturer of
branded products. So we know from experience just how important it is for a
product‘s image that the labels are firmly fixed – they convey the crucial
message for the market millions of times over: the quality of the brand.
Benefit
from our decades of experience, professional guidance and all-round support
throughout the labelling process. As partner to the beverage industry and
fillers from other sectors, we develop high-performance adhesives and
well-planned system solutions for all kinds of labelling jobs.
Our goal is
to always provide you with the ultimate perfection for your labels. For your
brand‘s sake.
3. Labels
Henkel: An industry leader in labels
Henkel is a leading global supplier of a wide range of innovative,
cost-effective pressure-sensitive adhesive products for label applications.
The Henkel line includes PSAs for permanent, peelable/repositionable and
direct food contact applications, as well as high-tack adhesives suitable
for a variety of difficult surfaces, including those where the clear "no
label" look is desired.
Paper labels
The paper label market is everywhere, and so is Henkel, with such trusted,
favored brands as NACOR emulsion products, DURO-TAK hotmelt products and our
specialty application MULTI-LOK emulsion. Substrates range from the thermal
to simple kraft paper.
Film
Pressure-sensitive products from Henkel are used on film labels everywhere.
Pick a substrate:
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PET
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BOPP
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PVC
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PP
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Polystyrene
Whatever the need, there’s a Henkel product that offers reliable strength
and superior quality. Our DURO-TAK Hotmelt and solvent-based products are
versatile enough to fit many needs with clean conversion and valuable
end-use properties.
Count on Henkel for products that provide:
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Excellent adhesion to a wide variety of substrates
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Low
shrinkage and good peel retention
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Non-yellowing on prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light
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Resistance to wing-up or flagging
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A
secure bond on curved surfaces
Whatever the customer requires, Henkel has the expertise and the technology
to make it a reality.
4. Flexible Packaging
For almost
40 years, Henkel has been manufacturing special adhesives for laminating
various materials, such as those necessary for flexible packaging.
Food
packaging has to fulfill several tasks: information, segmentation,
protection and preservation. These requirements led to the development of
packaging that is flexible and light, yet tear- and compression-resistant,
and guarantees that freshness and quality are protected until the product is
used. Snacks, like chips or crackers, have to be kept dry. Meat and cheese
need to stay fresh and hygienic. The flavor should never escape from coffee
or tobacco packages, nor should acid corrode the inner layer of juice
packaging.
Light and
flexible packaging would not be possible without laminates. They combine the
desired properties of various materials, such as paper and plastic films or
aluminum foil. Each substrate brings in its own advantages. Depending on the
intended use of the package, there may be two, three or four layers. In the
laminator, the films are bonded with the help of special adhesives to form a
new composite material – at machine speeds of 600 meters per minute or more.
5. Paper Converting
Machines,
applicators, substrates and adhesives have to be fully compatible with each
other to ensure immaculate results in the paper converting industry. With
Henkel's adhesives you're on the safe side.
As a
globally operating organization with local sales structures, Henkel offers
the paper converting industry a comprehensive range of adhesives. Our
adhesives systems are synonymous with precision, reliability and efficiency.
Henkel’s worldwide raw materials expertise and its close cooperations with
machine manufacturers puts it in a position to develop technologically
sophisticated and market focused adhesives systems.
Lively
communication with our customers, OEMs and application developers is a major
factor in our effort to continuously optimize our adhesives. Our worldwide
presence enables us to provide excellent advice and support to our
internationally operating customers.
Since we
are one of the few manufacturers to develop adhesives from basic research
through to the finished marketable product, we are able to offer our
customers adhesives specifically designed for industrial applications. We
support this process by polymerizing our own basic raw materials, thus
enabling us to tailor products to tight specifications.
Since
communication is our strength, we never fail to find the ideal solution,
however challenging the task.
a.
Bags & Sacks
(Adhesives for strong
packages):
We offer adhesives for paper sacks, paper bags, plastic bags and various
specialties.
Paper sacks come in a huge range of shapes, sizes and colors.
Henkel offers high-performance adhesives systems for the whole spectrum of
machines and applicators as well as for the substrates being bond.
b. Laminating:
Bonded to perfection for brilliant results
Henkel offers a broad range of adhesives for paper and carton laminates. We
have products to fit every customer’s requirements that exceed expectations
in:
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High
setting speed
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Good
lay-flat ability
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Long
open time
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Low
splashing
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Easy
cleaning
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Constant viscosity
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Waterproofing
Focused industry solutions:
Through close contacts with leading machine manufacturers, Henkel knows the
key machine-related parameters that must be considered in the formulation of
laminating adhesives at the development stage.
Some of our products are also suitable for use in foaming machines, thus
achieving an optimum price/performance ratio for the customer.
Safe, clean and reliable:
Henkel offers laminating adhesives for the production of food, medication
and cosmetics packages that enable our customers to meet legal requirements.
Aerobond system optimizes laminating process:
For high-volume applications like laminating, efficient processing is
especially important. The innovative Aerobond system from Henkel
significantly speeds up laminating processes in the paper converting
industry while improving efficiency at the same time. Together with an
equipment manufacturer, Henkel has developed a system solution for the
aeration of laminating adhesives that enables clean machine running even at
high production speeds.
c. Corrugating:
A bond
you can rely on
Henkel has high-performance adhesives systems for the entire spectrum of
corrugating machines and applicators and for the materials to be bonded.
Strong
enough to counteract the powerful memory forces of large and heavy format
materials, these adhesives provide:
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High wet tack
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High setting speeds
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Low consumption
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Outstanding machine running
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High production reliability
Henkel also
provides additives to improve water resistance and production performance.
Works in
any automated process
Our constant contact with machine and applicator manufacturers has resulted
in adhesives that work in any machine type. Depending on each company’s
needs, we can supply adhesives for wheel application (top or bottom
application units) and for a broad range of nozzles.
If glue
tracers are employed, we can supply adhesives with the required additives.
d. Cardboard:
Folding box
Our word is our bond
Folding boxes are items of everyday use. Wherever they are encountered – in
industry or under the critical eye of the end consumer – does anybody spare
a thought for the huge influence that the adhesive can have in its
interaction with the grade of cardboard, surface quality and printing ink?
Together
with the application systems, Henkel products ensure reliable bonding on
surfaces of all kinds. Whatever the substrate – be it a UV lacquer,
dispersion paint, film/foil laminate or water-repelling coating – we have
the high-quality product you need.
Your benefits for wheel application
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Broad range of applications
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Clean machine running
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High wet tack
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Easy cleaning
Your extra benefits for nozzle application
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Long open time
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Fast setting
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FDA and BgVV approvals
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No coagulations in the nozzle head
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Clean cut-off and minimal tailing
6. Tissue & Towels
What makes a piece of paper into a highly functional tissue product?
A few grams of adhesive. Henkel’s special adhesives suit the most varied
application in tissue industry. Whatever you want to glue, we provide you
with the know-how for optimal adhesion in all production environments.
Ongoing
communication with our partners in industry enables us to do this. We
conduct research in cooperation with machinery manufacturers in order to
make sure that our adhesives bond at the right moment and in the right
place, and to ascertain the best adhesive viscosity, tack as well as open
and setting time. Along with machine producers, we develop binding
specifications and recommendations that make it easier for you to select the
correct adhesive.
Innovations
on the part of our business partners thus flow directly into our own
research. Facilitating individual solutions to problems, in order to meet
all of your needs.
a.
Core Winding:
From rigid to soft:
Henkel offers the right solution to satisfy any type of request. Starting
from dextrin-based products to polyvinylacetate-based adhesives you can work
with any kind of paper/cardboard under different machine conditions, always
achieving the desired final quality of the core, from rigid to soft. We have
improved these adhesives still further to meet the needs of the new
high-speed machines.
This means that you will certainly be able to profit from the capacity of
the fasted application equipment, optimizing your production capacity.
This means that you will certainly be able to profit from the capacity of
the fasted application equipment, optimizing your production capacity.
b. Laminating
Getting the „softness“ right
Henkel laminating adhesives are adapted to the customers‘ specifications in
terms of high setting speed, excellent machinability, avoiding any type of
dirty or sticky effect on the roll. The use of Henkel adhesives helps to
achieve a very good price/performance ratio.
Thanks to many years of experience, Henkel is able to supply the market with
suitable adhesives for any kind of customer request: soft, rigid, medium
roll, the right bonding for 2-4 ply toilet paper and 2-3 ply kitchen paper…
We offer a complete range of products for this application, starting from
the customized adhesives to ready-to-use versions, including adhesives for
the new generation of paper, TAD.
No matter what combinations of papers is to be used, the Henel range will
provide you with just the right special adhesive, with an especially high
adhesion. Furthermore, even at high machine speeds our adhesives process
cleanly.
c. Packaging:
Packaging, a discipline for specialists:
Bonds for packaging materials vary greatly in their requirements, many of
the tasks being highly specialized. The adhesives systems of the Technomelt
line meet all the needs of product packaging. Henkel is constantly refining
the Technomelt product group so that it delivers optimum performance in all
application areas.
d. Pick - Up:
Getting
the tack right:
Faced with all
the various kinds of machines existing on the market, the different tack and
structure of Henkel adhesives enable you to profit from any kind of
application system, always getting the best final release. You will be sure
to find the optimal solution among Henkel‘s broad range to suit the required
final quality of the roll.
e. Tail Sealing:
How
to achieve the best quality:
This application could be considered as the most important, as it gives the
real image of quality of the finished roll. For this reason, Henkel has
developed a complete product range following the technological improvements
of the application systems and the requirements of the market.
Our adhesives offer very high performance when used on fountain, bar, gun
and nozzle systems, always assuring a limited penetration into the sheets
and an excellent release. Our adhesives make it possible to chosse the right
„wet tack“ for the paper, in order to avoid dirt during cutting and to
provide superior release.
The
changing types of paper and products in use keep our Research & Development
ever ready to develop a new tailor-made adhesive following any new trand or
improvement.
7. Films & Tape converting
An industry
leader, Henkel has built a peerless reputation as a producer of
solvent-born, rubber-based and acrylic adhesives for a variety of specialty
film laminations. The company’s high-performance, pressure-sensitive
adhesives are custom-formulated to meet specific customer applications and
requirements.
A
Product for Every Application
From masking tape and mounting tape to removable and permanent films, the
Henkel portfolio of pressure sensitive adhesives and coatings offers an
effective solution to every application requirement:
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Metal Foil Tapes
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High Temperature Tapes
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Specialty Films
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Foil
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Masking and protective tapes
First in Nitrile Phenolic
Henkel’s superior nitrile phenolic adhesive provides a high-temperature
performance heat seal application that resists temperatures of up to 300
degrees. The company’s nitrile phenolic transfer film also provides optimum
performance for temperature-sensitive substrates, and when cured offers
resistance to heat and solvents.
Strong, Safe and Reliable
Henkel’s PressureGrip and SureGrip high-end performance products are
formulated to match specific end requirements. Whatever attributes a
customer requires from a supplier –heat or cold resistance, moisture
resistance, high peel, high shear, high tack, clean removability and
processing – Henkel products meet the challenge.
Passing the Test
Henkel is a global supplier of adhesives products to dozens of markets
around the world, but no other product line in the company’s vast portfolio
is tested more rigorously than those designated for Film and Tape
Converting. Even products that Henkel supplies to the aerospace industry
aren’t analyzed more to make certain they are meeting the needs of customers
in all criteria. Henkel will replicate each customers’ applications in-house
to make certain the company’s products perform as they should.
8. Tapes
High performance applications demand high performance adhesives
Henkel is an industry leader in industrial tape, with a versatile line of
problem-solving products from such respected brands as DURO-TAK.
Whether it
is solvent acrylic, rubber or hotmelt, Henkel has a DURO-TAK tape product
for every application that provides optimum performance:
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In high- and low-temperature environments
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On low-energy surfaces
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In difficult applications requiring UV and chemical resistance
How
can we help?
Henkel’s pressure-sensitive solvent acrylic, hotmelt and rubber products
adhesives are renowned for their value-added performance.
In the industrial tape market, you will find our adhesives in a wide variety
of tape products including:
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Transfer
tapes: free film between two liners used in foam bonding applications.
Markets include the automotive industry, white goods and graphics.
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Double faced
tapes: adhesives on both sides of a carrier, used for splicing,
mounting and bonding. Our solvent acrylic and rubber resin products
used in PU and PE foam tapes (single and double coated) serve such
markets as the automotive industry, construction, gasket applications
and electronics.
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Single coated
film tapes: adhesive between a carrier and liner, utilizing PET, foil,
PVC, PP and PUR facestocks. Henkel’s solvent acrylic and rubber resin
lines provide very high tack for liner splicing, broad temperature
range, high-temperature masking and over-laminations.
Henkel also
offers custom-tailored technologies to meet our customers’ specific needs.
