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BASF is expanding its certified compostable ecovio\u00ae portfolio with new grades that meet increasing recycling needs of flexible barrier packaging.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The extended portfolio enables manufacturers of flexible packaging and brand owners to tailor barrier performance and end-of-life options like organics or paper recycling according to application functionalities, processing technologies, and regulatory frameworks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The certified home-compostable ecovio\u00ae grades can be combined with each other to manufacture different barrier structures based on paper or plastic substrates, enabling the whole packaging to be as high-performing as established packaging solutions while at the same time significantly increasing sustainability. The portfolio is suitable for a wide range of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) packaging, including food and beverages, personal care products, healthcare articles, and pet food.<\/p>\n
The new ecovio\u00ae toolbox comprises ready-to-use solutions for different packaging technologies, offering adjustable barriers against grease, oil, waxes and liquids as well as high barriers against oxygen and moisture while also acting as sealing layer. Processing is possible on existing manufacturing equipment: the different ecovio\u00ae grades are suitable for extrusion coating, film or sheet extrusion, as well as for lamination via extrusion, adhesives or heat, all in mono- or multi-layer structures.<\/p>\n
With the new portfolio, even ultra-thin biaxially stretched films are possible, opening up a new range of home-compostable packaging.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the new ecovio\u00ae portfolio, we offer manufacturers of flexible packaging a modular material toolbox that gives them greater design freedom: They can adapt barrier performance, processing technology, and recycling possibilities to their specific application needs and sustainability goals,\u201d says Michael Bernhard Schick from global business management Biopolymers at BASF<\/strong>. \u201cThis supports converters and brand owners in developing high-performing packaging solutions while addressing end-of-life options already in the product development phase.\u201d<\/p>\n Depending on the substrate and packaging design, certified compostable ecovio\u00ae supports different end-of-life options. Paper- and board-based packaging structures can be recycled via established paper recycling streams with high fiber recovery; they can also be organically recycled when soiled with food residues. Flexible plastic packaging made of ecovio\u00ae can be organically recycled in industrial or home compost without generating persistent microplastics. Depending on the grade, ecovio\u00ae is available with bio-based content ranging up to 80 percent or as certified biomass-balanced material.<\/p>\n The new ecovio\u00ae grades can be used to create barriers for a wide range of FMCG packaging of different foodstuffs and other ingredients: Pouches, sachets, trays or boxes can be manufactured containing hot, cold, dry, solid, liquid or fatty foods \u2013 from coffee, salty snacks, cereals, chocolate bars via ice cream, sauces, ketchup and mayonnaise to meat, fish and cheese as well as shampoo, body lotions, and other personal care products.<\/p>\n A wide range of BASF\u2019s solutions for the packaging industry will be showcased at the Interpack trade fair taking place May 7\u201313 in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany. BASF\u2019s biopolymers team will be at booth A44 in Hall 10.<\/p>\n For more information, visit www.ecovio.basf.com\/flexiblepackaging<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\nBASF at Interpack 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n