Developed a new barrier coated paper and heat-sealable for the food and toiletries packaging by Toppan

GL-X-P produces high barrier performance and flex resistance to paper-based packaging for food, toiletries, and many other industries worldwide.

Toppan

Toppan, a worldwide leader in packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has made a new barrier-coated paper that gives high water vapor barrier performance and outstanding flex resistance and is becoming for a broad spectrum of contents and packaging shapes. 

Specimen of shipments “GL-X-P” to manufacturers in a broad range of global industries, including food and toiletries, will begin in September, with the launch of full-scale sales programmed for spring 2022.

GL-X-P Barrier-coated paper (Wvtr and Flex Resistance)

GL-X-P’s excellent water vapor barrier performance performs it likely to prevent content quality deterioration affected by humidity. At the same time, its flex resistance indicates it can be used for a diverse variety of packaging shapes. 

Specification of Barrier-coated paper

These characteristics permit its use in packaging for a wide variety of powdered and solid contents, including food products such as instant coffee, powdered soups, and chocolate, as well as cosmetics and toiletries.

Environmental | Heat Sealable | Others

As an option to traditional packaging using paper, GL-X-P also has advantages for the environment. It can reduce food loss due to the potential prolongation of shelf lives enabled by preserving freshness. Because GL-X-P itself is heat sealable, a composition consisting only of paper is possible, cutting plastic consumption and promoting a decrease in CO2 emissions of up to about 35% (Toppan calculation) when used as an alternative to conventional laminated packaging compositions that include plastic.

Sustainable Development Goals

With the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and increasing global momentum to preserve the environment and conserve resources, growing interest in packaging mitigates the impact on the climate. Efforts to overcome food loss and encourage sustainability are now essential. Product packages are demanded to preserve freshness, keep contents over more extended periods, and lessen environmental impact through resource-saving and recyclability.

In 1986 Toppan developed GL FILM, a barrier film that can reduce food loss and resource consumption to social issues. The GL BARRIER brand of barrier films with GL FILM at its core today has a leading share of the worldwide market on world-class barrier performance and a broad range of products for diverse purposes.

As a new paper-based extension to the existing range of film products, GL-X-P expands the possible purposes of GL BARRIER and succeeds in the challenge of creating paper-based high barrier packaging. Targeting mass production in 2022, Toppan will encourage GL-X-P development and proceed to become its lineup by creating new barrier-coated paper products for packaging.

Highlights of GL-X-P

・Enables paper-based packaging with high barrier performance

Coating treatment that enhances flex resistance and proprietary vapor deposition technologies accumulated through the development of Toppan’s GL BARRIER products enable high barrier performance and superior workability that makes GL-X-P suitable for diverse packaging shapes.

・Use of paper material reduces CO2 emissions

Adopting paper as the base material removes the lamination process and enables a structure that uses no aluminum foil. This makes it possible to reduce CO2 emissions by up to approximately 35% (Toppan calculation) compared to conventional products using plastic films.

・Switch to paper mono-material reduces plastic consumption to zero

General packaging employs a material structure combining various components with a sealant layer that incorporates plastic material. However, because GL-X-P consists only of paper material and a coated layer with heat sealing properties, it has become possible to reduce the plastic consumption of packaging to zero.

・Packaging design that takes advantage of the look and feel of paper

GL-X-P’s barrier performance eliminates the need to use film or other materials and facilitates packaging design that uses the unique look and feel of paper.

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