heat seal

In building a future beyond fossils, UPM Specialty Papers provides the packaging industry with innovative and renewable solutions from sustainably managed forests. Known for its high expertise in technically demanding papers and cutting-edge solutions, UPM Specialty Papers adds heat sealable products to UPM’s wide packaging product portfolio. This ground-breaking feature allows for a streamlined conversion process and an accelerated time-to-market. Made from renewable fibres, UPM Confidio and UPM Confidio Pro are repulpable and designed to be recycled in regular fibre recycling streams.

The company’s Heat Sealing Masterclass shows food retailers and their suppliers the various steps required to meet an ideal standard of sealing for their particular applications, and delivers expert advice on best practice and material usage. The class provides participants with a set of practical solutions to solve and prevent the most common sealing issues. As part of this, Proseal has created a clear set of definitions for what constitutes a good seal, based around what the company defines as The Three Pillars of Heating Sealing - Materials, Design and Maintenance.

Amcor introduced ACT2100™ heat seal coating for medical grade DuPont™ Tyvek®2 and paper packaging applications. This next generation coating technology delivers enhanced performance features for healthcare applications and will be produced in multiple locations worldwide to offer customers increased flexibility to be supplied from the most suitable location for the manufacturing and packaging of their devices.