Packaging
We add value to your packaging with innovative solutions tailored to your materials and end applications.
Make Your Product Stand Out on the Shelf
Our masterbatches and compounds are formulated as ready-to-use, easy to handle products that set your brand apart in a competitive market.
Our products enhance the visual appeal, durability, and performance of your food and non-food packaging, with a wide range of color and functional masterbatches to ensure your rigid and flexible packaging stands out. You benefit from broader and more flexible designs, besides multiple surface finishes from transparent to matt.
Our solutions are engineered to protect and preserve your food, help you reach or exceed recycled content targets, formulate your packaging into mono-material, comply with design guidelines for recycling and circularity, and a lot more.
Where Our Products Make an Impact
- Food packaging
- Beverage bottles
- Personal care packaging
- Household and cleaning packaging
- Industrial packaging
Packaging Trends Shaping a Sustainable Future
The packaging industry is embracing transformative development to meet sustainability goals and consumer demands. Circular economy principles are driving innovation, with a focus on designing packaging for recyclability, biodegradability and reuse, in addition to promoting the use of recycled content. These shifts aim to reduce waste, lower consumers’ environmental impact, and close the loop in material usage. By adopting these practices, the industry is paving the way for a more sustainable future.
Innovative Solutions for Conscious Packaging
In today's rapidly evolving packaging industry, we are at the forefront of innovation, offering solutions that meet and exceed market demands. Our biobased, biodegradable, and recyclable alternatives provide environmentally friendly options without compromising performance. By incorporating recycled content, we contribute to the circular economy and promote resource conservation.
Our functionality masterbatches focus on enhancing productivity, aesthetics, and performance of the final packaging, ensuring products remain fresh and safe for longer periods. Our formulations are rigorously tested in our in-house labs, ensuring compliance with industry standards. We bring technical expertise and support to the packaging industry, working closely with clients to provide tailored solutions. Additionally, we guarantee compliance with packaging regulations, ensuring our products are safe, reliable, and market-ready.
Driving Circularity in Packaging
Developing the First Antifogging Compound for PET
In a joint development project with Emery Oleochemicals, a leading global manufacturer of natural-based chemicals, we have developed the first PET Antifogging Compound designed for packaging with direct food contact. Formulated to be used at 100% in cold applications, it prevents fogging on packaging surfaces, replacing the need, risks and hassle of using coatings.
Making PET Hot-Fillable
In collaboration with Illig, SML, and Kiefel, Sukano formulated a new nucleating masterbatch package that allows clear CPET-light food packaging to be dimensionally stable at temperatures up to 100°C. This advancement enables the use of recyclable PET for hot-fill applications in opaque as well as transparent multilayer applications. The CPET-light applications were tested by the sorting machine manufacturer Pellenc ST for NIR detectability and their sortability in a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) was positively verified and confirmed.
Joint Efforts in the Development of Masterbatches for PEF
In a joint project with Avantium, we aimed to enhance the properties of PEF, the circular plastic material from plant-based sugars, to introduce it to the Packaging industry. Together, we successfully developed Antiblock masterbatches for bi-axially oriented PEF (BOPEF) films, toning agents for a glass-like appearance in PEF injection molded applications, and white masterbatches for PEF fiber applications.
Making Recyclable Frozen Food Trays Possible
With the development of our Transparent Impact Modifier for PET, we empower you to replace non-recyclable frozen food trays with PET mono-material structures, while increasing the use of rPET. Achieve improved durability and toughness, enhanced impact resistance, and higher rPET content without loss in transparency of your end application.
Explore Your Material Options
Biopolymers for Packaging
Realize biodegradable packaging without limiting functionality and aesthetics. We offer a leading performance range of masterbatches for functionality and processing enhancement of thin and thick PLA film and injection molded parts for packaging of all sorts. They also allow efficient production of both hot and cold food content packaging applications.
PET/rPET for Packaging
With over 35 years of experience in optimizing and enhancing polyesters for packaging applications, our masterbatches and compounds are designed to meet the diverse needs of food and beverage packaging, as well as packaging for cleaning and personal care products. Our products help improve performance and lower the environmental impact in packaging.
Recycled Resins for Packaging
Stay ahead of growing regulations on mandatory recycled content in packaging. We help you incorporate recycled material into your trays and bottles, ensuring compliance with industry standards and sustainability requirements today. Benefit from decades of experience in packaging and recycled materials to develop products that help you increase recycled content while maintaining aesthetics and material properties.
Polyolefins for Packaging
Polyolefins are widely used for food and industrial packaging, our masterbatch portfolio offers colors and visual effects as well as functional additives across a broad range of applications - from films and sheets to injection-molded products.
Explore our Packaging Portfolio
Color and Appearance for Packaging
Elevate your packaging with our customizable color portfolio, featuring formulations tailored to enhance NIR-detectability for efficient tray-to-tray and bottle-to-bottle recyclability. Restore clarity by neutralizing inherent material undertones and discoloration in recycled materials. Use Matting Agents for durable visual effects on black or colored food trays or translucent and white packaging containers.
Mechanical Recycling Enhancement for Packaging
Our products support the use of recycled content in your packaging while maintaining physical properties, quality, and stable processing. Use Melt Viscosity Enhancers to lift the IV of recycled resins, Color Correction to neutralize their discoloration, and Transparent Impact Modifiers to reduce brittleness while maintaining transparency of rPET to create mono-material packaging suitable for flash-frozen, cold, and room temperature applications.
Barrier and Shelf-Life Modifiers for Packaging
Explore our Barrier and Shelf-Life Modifiers that preserve the organoleptic properties of your packaging content. Antifog masterbatches prevent fogging on and inside of food packaging, AA Scavengers reduce AA levels in bottles, UV masterbatches protect sensitive transparent food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical packaging from UV radiation, and our White masterbatches offer light barrier and opacity for ESL and UHT milk bottles.
Physical Property Modifiers for Packaging
Make your material suitable for diverse packaging applications. Our Foaming Agents boost insulation properties for hot and cold food packaging while reducing material density. Increase heat resistance with our Nucleating Agents, suitable for hot-fill to ovenable applications. Or create mono-material recycled or virgin PET trays for flash-frozen, cold, and room-temperature uses with our Transparent Impact Modifiers.
End Application Modifiers for Packaging
Enable clean material surfaces and dust free products. Our durable Antistatic masterbatches prevent the buildup of static charges in rigid and flexible films to prevent content from sticking to the packaging in applications such as dry powder or cosmetics. They also inhibit electrical discharge in electronic packaging.
Slip, Antiblock & Release Modification for Packaging
Ensure packaging production efficiency. Mold Release additives reduce demolding force and enhance flow properties, enabling smooth filling of larger parts and thinner-walled applications such as personal care products. Slip/Antiblock additives provide good slip and release performance of thermoformed parts. Mobility Aids reduce bottle-to-bottle and bottle-to-sleeve friction for seamless ISBM PET bottle production.
Processing Aid for Packaging
Widen the processing window of your material for enhanced productivity. Our Nucleating agents accelerate the crystallization speed of PET, PLA, and recycled polymers and Melt Viscosity Enhancers improve the melt strength of PET and rPET to improve productivity in extrusion, injection molding, and foaming processes for packaging applications.
Adding Value Through Expertise and Testing
Regulatory Expertise
The landscape of regulations concerning food packaging and food contact materials is complex and varies internationally. With Sukano, benefit from a team specializing in regulatory affairs and trained to navigate through global regulations to ensure compliance with the latest standards and support market readiness and safety assurance. We meticulously assess our formulations against declarable or restricted substances lists, safeguarding your business from potential industrial regulatory pitfalls.
Relevant Statements of Compliance include:
- Dedicated compliance letter
- REACH compliance
- EU food compliance and FDA
In-House Labs
Our expertise in developing both rigid and thin films accelerates product and application development with efficiency. We are equipped with injection molders, film stretching line and COEX film line to replicate your end product in-house and simulate your processes. Complementing this, our advanced analytical and physical testing capabilities ensure our performance claims and offerings are backed by qualitative and quantitative scientific data. Therefore, we can offer you superior performance and seamless integration of our products into your processes and multiple manufacturing steps.
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