Michelman has announced its bio-based, plastic free Nuvita Life 4002 and Nuvita Life 4605 coatings, designed to deliver high barrier performance while supporting recyclability and compostability for fibre-based retail food packaging applications.
The company says the Nuvita Life 4002 is a heat seal coating that imparts oil and grease resistance (OGR) and has an ‘excellent’ mineral oil barrier. Apparently, it provides strong seals over a wide sealing window and is overcoatable, aiming to offer design flexibility for packaging structures.
The Nuvita Life 4605 coating is a topcoat with OGR, water resistance and moisture barrier performance, providing ‘robust protection’ for retail food packaging applications. Michelman states that both coatings are said to be crease resistant and engineered with a low coefficient of friction, to support compatibility with vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) processing lines.
Target applications for the new coatings include pouches and sachets for dry foods, flow wraps for food bars, and envelopes for tea. The company adds that the coatings are microplastic-free, SUPD compliant and 100% bio-based in dry film. They seek to enable dual end-of-life outcomes, supporting compostability options and compatibility with existing recycling streams.
Michelman also states that the Nuvita Life coatings are aligned with evolving regulatory frameworks including the European Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD) and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), designed to contribute to recyclability targets and compliant waste management pathways.
Last year the company revealed Michem Coat 9250, a water-based coating designed to enable recyclability of paper cups. The new formulation hopes to help brand owners and converters meet global recyclability and performance standards for paper cups.
In January laser printing solutions company DataLase unveiled a clear-to-white coating for plastic bottles, aiming to provide an alternative to traditional labels, eliminating filmic and paper materials while delivering full label-equivalent functionality. Once applied, the bottle surface can be laser-imaged using CO2, fibre or UV lasers, producing a high-opacity white image on a clear background with ‘exceptional’ clarity.
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