Paper Products & the Adhesives Needed to Support a Thriving Economy
Innovation in Paper Products, Demands on Adhesives
Satisfying the Surging Paper Market
Today’s consumer goods packaging industry is experiencing a boom—especially in the paper market for items like cups, bags, and to-go containers, as well as tissues, towels, and other functional paper products. Several key trends feed into this surge:
- Sustainability. Consumers and governments are increasingly pushing for more environmentally friendly solutions for product packaging. Being renewable, recyclable, and compostable, paper has replaced plastic as the natural choice for quick and easy commerce. But it doesn’t stop there. The creation of reusable paper-based bags has added an extra layer of sustainability by helping to reduce material consumption and waste. The right sustainable paper packaging adhesive is a must.
- Ecommerce boom. With the growth of online shopping and food orders, the need for secure and sustainable packaging for deliveries has skyrocketed. Paper bags and boxes are an excellent choice, with the right to-go packaging adhesives, offering both protection and sustainability for consumers and their purchases.
- Innovation in functionality. The old limits of paper are falling away. Advanced coatings, laminates, and forming techniques are enabling paper products with grease resistance, insulating properties, and even super strength—a benefit for reduced weight and material use.
Attributes of Superior Paper Adhesive
To keep pace with—and anticipate—market needs, consider choosing a paper adhesive that meets your goals for sustainability, functional performance, versatility, and adhesion. Perhaps you are looking for:
- Bio-based content
- Sustainable end-of-life scenarios
- Strong bonding
- Heat and cold resistance
- Versatility of substrate adhesion
- Food safety
By focusing on these adhesive attributes, manufacturers and converters like you can develop solutions that support the sustainable and functional growth of the paper packaging market.
The Power of Bostik's Paper Adhesives
Our adhesives are designed to meet important criteria for a variety of paper needs, including:
- Excellent compatibility with equipment and substrates for simple conversion
- Low adhesive consumption with proven high add-on savings
- Clean running resulting in few line stops and high productivity
- Suitable for use on the most challenging, renewable, or sustainable materials
- Low application temperatures enabling energy reductions
- Renewable and compostable formulations supporting you and your consumers’ sustainable ambitions
- High safety standard certifications support the most demanding of regulations
- Formulations meet European Union and United States paper recycling guidelines
Achieve Your Goals With Bostik
Bostik has a wide range of hot-melt and water-based adhesive options for your paper-bonding needs, including sustainable product packaging. Each is designed to meet the most stringent requirements in today’s fast-moving global world, allowing you to:
- Maximize environmental advantages
- Enhance operational efficiencies
- Deliver breakthrough products to consumers
The benefits of partnering with us aren’t limited to the glues you buy. With Bostik, you can also count on our:
- Industry experts who recognize and act on emerging trends before others can
- Innovation, with more than 9,000 patents and the ability to see situations and needs from every angle
- “Glocal” perspective, blending the best benefits of global and local, with a network of production facilities, laboratories, and regional support centers
- Expert service and support, offering personalized solutions, offline trials, performance troubleshooting, and adhesive optimization
- Sharing know-how, giving you the information you require, where and how you want it with articles, podcasts, blogs, whitepapers, and more
- We are sustainability enablers, dedicated to sustainable solutions, best practices, product innovation, and sharing knowledge of regulations and certifications you need to meet your goals for corporate social responsibility
Looking for the right adhesives and supplier for your paper-based products? At Bostik, we enable and empower you to create, to do, and to improve. Whatever challenge you are facing, we have or will find a solution because we have the knowledge and experience to do so.
