TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Coatings
Green-tech company Melodea, producer of sustainable barrier coatings for packaging, launches VBseal™, its new sustainable packaging solution to cut back plastic waste in consumer-packaged goods. The green coating solution is resistant to water vapor, oil, aroma and has heat-sealing properties.
To further the efforts, the company opens a pilot plant and innovation center, allowing it to serve its customers as well as to demonstrate the new solution. The new site will also test out existing barrier coating products and produce coated reels and pouches at pilot scale.
One-stop Solution for Both Water Vapor & Heat Sealing
VBseal™ has exceptional resistance to water vapor and heat-sealing properties, all in one coating. It joins Melodea’s existing eco-friendly barrier coating products, MelOx™ for oxygen and VBcoat™ for water vapor and oil and grease. The material is designed to line packaging of fresh foods, cereals, fast foods, confectionary such as biscuits and ice-cream as well as detergents and cosmetics.
It is fully recyclable, gives high performance protection and in coating machines is a one-stop solution for both water vapor and heat sealing, avoiding the need for two different passes, making it easy to apply and reduces production costs. The VBseal™ is free of paraformaldehyde (PFA) and bisphenol A (BPA) and is FDA and BfR-compatible.
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Packaging producers have an urgent need for a sustainable barrier coating that has both water vapor protection and heat sealable properties and can replace the commonly used plastic PE layer,” explained Cee Azerraf, PhD, vice president Sales & Marketing of Melodea.
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Our R&D team worked on this new product joining our existing VBcoat and, as with all of our products, it was crucial that it be recyclable and easy to apply on existing coating lines,” added Azerraf.
New Pilot Center
With the growing demand for sustainable packaging solutions, manufacturers are constantly evaluating emerging solutions at a scaled pilot. To that end, Melodea has opened its new pilot center and invested USD500,000 in advanced equipment and analytics tools to support CPG companies and packaging producers in their efforts to meet sustainability goals in green packaging.
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We offer our clients a location to evaluate their products using our eco-friendly solutions, with full control of the coating process,” Shaul Lapidot, PhD, chief executive officer and co-founder of Melodea.
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We can utilize Melodea’s R&D team’s vast know-how of coatings with optimizing barrier performance and analyze the results on site, as well as help shorten time-to-market for new products and packages,” added Lapidot.
Source: Melodea