Chemicals giant Dow has developed an adhesive that allows flexible film packaging with layers of PET and aluminum to be replaced by all-polyolefin films, which are easier to recycle.
The chemical company’s ADCOTE L86-500 barrier adhesive would allow a coffee pouch made from layers of PET/aluminum/PE to be replaced by BOPP/metallized BOPP/PE, said Uta Ünal, business communications manager for the adhesives area of Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics.
Click on the link to read the full article written by Jared Paben and posted on Plastics Recycling Update on 7 September 2017
https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2017/09/07/dow-explains-technology-polyolefin-film-packages/