Ahlstrom launches Coralpack NG

To produce grease-resistant packaging papers, fluorochemicals are added in the paper production process. However, deriving from the production process of these fluorochemicals, trace amounts of PFOA can be found as an unintended impurity. In January 2006, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invited manufacturers of fluorochemicals to commit to reduce by 95% PFOA from their emissions and products content not later than by 2010 and to eliminate it totally by 2015.

To offer its customers a grease-resistant paper free of this unintended impurity, Ahlstrom Group Product & Technology Development services have designed a new generation of grease resistant papers.

The global high performance fibre-based materials company has developed a PFOA-free* version of its Ahlstrom Coralpack range, a flexible packaging paper for direct wrapping and packing of grease-containing food products, such as biscuits, pastries, coffee beans, fast food, pizzas, popcorn for micro wave, butter and margarine, and soup cubes.

Today, the entire Coralpack paper range is available on request in a New Generation (NG) version, free of PFOA*. The product’s paper range spans from 32 to 200 grams per square metre and offers high performance paper characteristics such as printability, laminating, extrusion and crimping.

Coralpack is produced at the Rottersac plant Southwest of France. Whatever their grease contents, food products packed or wrapped in Coralpack papers are always free of grease stains, which positively impacts the image of different brands in consumer minds.

* Does not contain Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (below current detection limits of 20 ppb), cannot release PFOA or any PFOA precursor.