Dec 2, 2024 - 3-5 minutes
High-Performance Mileage, Adhesion, and Energy Savings with Kizen™ LIME
Bostik, in collaboration with Dow and Nordson, has launched Kizen™ LIME, an innovative, high-performance hot-melt adhesive using 80% renewable ingredients. With certified bio-based and bio-circular materials, it is designed for recyclable paper/cardboard packaging of fast-moving consumer goods.
In a unique and successful collaboration across the value chain, Bostik, Dow, and Nordson are now offering a new adhesive solution for end-of-line packaging that is helping reduce pressure on fossil resources. This singular addition to the Kizen range of exclusive adhesive solutions by Bostik is designed especially for your recyclable paper/cardboard packaging and offers energy and cost savings.
Introducing Kizen™ LIME
Certified Bio-Based and Bio-Circular Materials
Kizen™ LIME, the newest offering in the Kizen range of hot-melt adhesive products, is an innovative, proprietary solution made with a minimum of 80% renewable ingredients.1 Kizen LIME also provides high performances in mileage, adhesion, and energy savings.
Improved Carbon Avoidance
AFFINITY™ RE from Dow has been instrumental in enabling Kizen™ LIME to reach almost 100% carbon footprint avoidance when including biogenic carbon uptake, owing to an attractive by-product from the food industry. This, overall, can help you reduce your product’s carbon footprint.
Low Temp Application for Energy and Cost Savings
Applied at low temperature with ProBlue™ Flex Melters from Nordson, Kizen™ LIME provides additional significant energy and costs savings compared to other adhesives, in particular conventional fully fossil-based adhesives used with former melter generations. Nordson Adhesive Dispensing Systems are known for their ultra-precise dispensing accuracy, reliability, and efficiency, making them ideal for automated packaging lines.
Compatible products particularly include the ProBlue Flex Melter and MiniBlue II Slim Applicators. Customers who integrate advanced Nordson technologies into their packaging line, in conjunction with Kizen LIME, can increase their efficiency and support their sustainability goals to reduce environmental impacts.
The Kizen™ Range of Packaging Hot Melts
For Your Packaging and End-of-Line Adhesive Needs
Kizen™ packaging products are hot melts with 100% solid content and are free of both solvent and water. They are designed to provide manufacturers like you with a tamper-evident sealing by fiber tearing of cardboard packaging. The consumer gets the confirmation, by the seal, that the packaging has not been opened since it was closed at your plant.
Kizen fulfills the most demanding requirements of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods for adhesives. It can contribute to lowering your carbon footprint, while still complying with the most advanced safety standards and best in class efficiency for brand owners and industrial partners.
The Right Partnerships Enable Innovation
Just as our partnership with Dow and Nordson led to the creation and advances of Kizen™ LIME, so too can your partnership with Bostik help you move forward in your production efficiency and sustainability goals with confidence.
Talk to a Bostik expert today about why Kizen adhesives are a more efficient, sustainable, and secure choice for your end-of-line packaging needs.
1Includes a combination of bio-based materials certified by EN 16640:2017 and bio-circular materials certified by ISCC PLUS.
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