New Adhesive from Ashland Expands Food Packaging Options for Converters

This environmentally friendly technology produces no aromatic amines; and with its extended pot life, web converters can add speed to their process while reducing energy costs because curing can now be done at room temperature.

Oct 6 2010 --- A new technology from Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., provides options for converters to expand food packaging opportunities. Ashland’s Purelam Fastcure two-component urethane solventless adhesives will be featured products at Pack Expo to be held Oct. 31 – Nov. 3 in Chicago.

Ashland’s Purelam Fastcure adhesives feature unique and extremely long, yet stable, viscosity that provides hours of run time. This flexibility is coupled with a fast-curing technology that allows package adhesion to cure within 24-48 hours at room temperature. Ashland’s Purelam Fastcure solventless laminating adhesives are aliphatic polyurethane-based and Food and Drug Administration-compliant for a variety of end-use products.

"This environmentally friendly technology produces no aromatic amines; and with its extended pot life, web converters can add speed to their process while reducing energy costs because curing can now be done at room temperature," said David Hatgas, director, global product management, Packaging and Converting Adhesives and Coatings.

Purelam Fastcure 110/230 and 110/240 laminating adhesives meet the regulatory requirements for use in indirect food packaging applications. Efforts to expand uses that comply with Food and Drug Administration regulations are ongoing. To learn more about Ashland’s Purelam Fastcure adhesives contact David Hatgas at (614) 790-3394.

Ashland has been bringing innovative solutions to the graphic arts, flexible packaging and printing industries for more than 40 years. As one of the largest water- and solvent-based pressure-sensitive adhesive manufacturers in the world, Ashland provides standard and customized solutions for UV/EB, water-based coatings and adhesives, water-based laminating adhesives, and heat and cold seal production.

Ashland Performance Materials is the number one global leader in unsaturated polyester resins and vinyl ester resins. In addition, it provides customers with leading technologies in gelcoats, pressure-sensitive and structural adhesives, and metal casting consumables and design services.