FluoroFree® Greaseproof Technology packaging solutions
Ahlstrom has shown more sustainable options for fiber-based food packaging. Its new generation of FluoroFree technology is performing grease resistance in challenging food packaging applications.
“We have been on a constant development of our proprietary FluoroFree family of grease-resistant products for more than a decade, and we resume to stretch the limits on grease-resistance capabilities,” explained Travis Dahlke, Vice President of Ahlstrom’s North American Food Packaging business. “We have proven our expertise, commercializing products that demand the highest grease resistance in food packaging.”
Ahlstrom’s FluoroFree technology has extended to its PawPrint® line of multi-wall, fiber-based pet food packaging papers, in addition to its Tempera® Microwave Popcorn papers and Servera® Quick Service Restaurant products. For applications in demand of fully sustainable packaging and grease barrier wrapping, such as bouillon cubes, FluoroFree® delivers the solution utilizing alternative materials to films and foils. In expansion, Ahlstrom’s Genuine Vegetable Parchment products are naturally greaseproof papers that are also certified Home Compostable.
“We really were at the fore of not only predicting the movement away from traditionally used PFAS chemicals in the packaging industry, but we had worked directly with the sustainability community and brand owners to act on these changes even before the marketplace demanded such change,” said Mark Ushpol, Executive Vice President of Ahlstrom’s Food & Consumer Packaging Division. “This has positioned us to develop these next generations of sustainable, grease-resistant barrier properties well ahead of the rest of the industry.”
Innovative FluoroFree papers satisfy the compositional needs for food contact papers under FDA and EU Regulations and BfR Recommendations. FluoroFree papers fulfill the legislative requirements on PFAS content set forth by The Danish Ministry of Environment
and Food, as well as PFAS limits established by the Biodegradable Products Institute BPI®). FluoroFree® is designed for recyclability and certified compostable by BPI® Biodegradable Products Institute.
