Recyclable Laminating Adhesive for Mono-Material Packaging
SF10M, a Laminating Adhesive designed and proven for Recyclable Mono-Material Packaging.
With the goal of being Sustainability Enablers in mind, Bostik was the first to take the initiative of developing and gaining formal approval for a laminating adhesive designed for high-quality recycling of mono-material PE packaging. This became Bostik’s SF10M: a Recyclass-approved laminating adhesive fit for the existing PE film recycling stream. In the market, SF10M has been proven equally efficient in PP mono-material packaging.
Recyclass is a comprehensive, cross-industry initiative that advances plastic packaging recyclability while promoting the traceability of plastic waste and recycled plastic content in Europe. Recyclass provides guidance on how to design more recyclable packaging. They have a widely recognized and thorough testing protocol for innovating packaging and technologies.
A great success with machine manufacturers, brand owners, and converters.
Bostik's SF10M Laminating Adhesive is a versatile and easy-to-process solvent-free adhesive, requiring no special care, adapting of conventional converting lines or CAPEX. Bostik collaborated with Nordmeccanica, a leading converting line manufacturer, to confirm that this adhesive fits the converting industry’s expectations. What we learned was that SF10M can run at line speeds up to 400 m/min, with no unique process changes.
For their sustainable and truly circular packaging, Bostik’s customers and brands can count on this concrete solution, commercially available TODAY.
With our proactive approach to potential innovative solutions and our attitude of investing heavily in this area, we make the greatest possible contribution to making packaging more sustainable and future production more eco-friendly.
The Importance of Certified Adhesive for Mono-material Packaging Circularity.
Recyclass is a comprehensive, cross-industry initiative that advances plastic packaging recyclability while promoting the traceability of plastic waste and recycled plastic content in Europe. Recyclass provides guidance on how to design more recyclable packaging.
Recyclass has developed an easily identifiable Recycler Label. This symbol provides a specific set of criteria that allows recyclers to quickly identify if a product can be recycled, and if it is circular, or not. The adhesive SF10M by Bostik, certified by Recyclass, has been formulated to optimise the quality of the recycled material of mono-material flexible packaging and then enabling packaging circularity.
Design for recycling: the role of adhesives
Using SF10M laminating adhesive is the right choice for converters and brand owners in the design of their mono-material PE or PP packaging that enable circularity. It greatly contributes for them to obtain recyclability certification for their packaging while maximizing recyclability grading for expected eco-modulation of EPR fees.
