Be it preserving the freshness in food, convenient packaging or optimizing costs, we understand the needs of your industry. Together with BASF we focus our innovation on delivering these values and bringing sustainable solutions to you in the packaging and print industry.
We offer a wide range of raw materials that can be used to protect the life of a product, enhance the visual image and improve the sustainability of the packaging. With our products and expertise you can develop a sustainable solution without compromising on quality or performance.
The Joncryl® range enables efficient printing on corrugated board, reducing the amount of binder and thus cost in use. We offer a full range of water-based and energy-curable solutions, suitable for both surface and reverse printing on different film substrates (Joncryl® FLX product line).
Our comprehensive range of dispersants and resins enables you to prepare dispersions for printing inks with high color strength, compatibility and stability in an efficient grinding process. Our highly efficient grinding solutions from the Joncryl® HPD range promote outstanding colour development, gloss and transparency in printing inks for corrugated, paper board and film.
Biobased Plastics
ecovio® is a certified compostable polymer with bio-based content The primary advantages: It is certified compostable and biobased.
Benefits of ecovio®
- is a finished compound
- is certified compostable worldwide
- has a variable biobased content
- is printable and weldable
The main areas of use for ecovio® are plastic films such as organic waste bags, fruit and vegetable bags, carrier bags with dual-use (first for shopping, then for organic waste) or agricultural films. Furthermore, compostable packaging solutions such as paper-coating, shrink and cling films as well as injection molding and thermoformed products can be produced with ecovio®.
Climate change, population growth and rising pollution levels are putting considerable strain on our planet and resources. In response, more sustainable solutions are required from all areas of business.
That’s why BASF is joining forces with pioneers from across the value chain to PRETHINK INK: Together with like-minded partners, we want to tackle today’s and tomorrow’s challenges for packaging. We are convinced that water-based inks are the future for flexible packaging.
