Company Name: BASF
Project Name: Joncryl® HPB series
Award Category: Innovation Sustainable Product
Product / Service Introduction
Looking for a breakthrough in the technical aspects of the production of takeaway lunch boxes to help develop safe andsustainable solutions, BASF launched the Joncryl® HPB series, which is a series of barrier coatings coated paper and takeaway lunch boxes (including paper cups, paper bowls, etc.). Joncryl® HPB has following sustainable properties, thereby enhancing the sustainable and circular economy contribution:
Can be re-pulped and recycled
Compared with the same weight coated paper, it has higher efficiency of raw material use, which means the same raw material unit amount can produce about 5% more paper bowls
Compared with the traditional PE coating, it has less coating amount and good barrier, and the 9 g/㎡ (dry weight) coating can achieve the barrier effect of 18 g/㎡ PE coating, which reduces the unit weight of food packaging under the same or even better barrier effect, thereby reducing logistics costs
Explanation of Circular Economy Practice
The consumption of paper cup in China is about 20 billion per year, while 99% are PE extruded paper cup, that means 1.5 million trees will be used. With excellent water and oil resistance property, BASF’s Joncryl® HPB enables the coated paper and take-out containers can be re-pulped and recycled, which can reduce the proportion of non-degradable plastics in take-out containers through recycling and paper reclamation, effectively reducing the waste in the industry.
Overview of Product/Service Lifecycle
Product Design:
Balance of barrier and heat sealing performance
Broad direct food contact compliance like BfR, FPA, GB
Design and enable product repulpability and recyclability
Enable cost down possibility by using alternative raw materials
Production:
Low VOC control
Meet Good Manufacture Process (GMP)
Friendly working environment
High production efficiency
Useage:
Friendly use at convertor and end user
To replace PE extruded product in flexible food packaging
Excellent performance
Diversity use in different occasion
Recycling and Recovery:
Simplify and recyclable
Before store, whole value chain consideration
In store, recyclable and waste reduction
After store, whole package recyclable
