Ahlstrom launches PFOA-free flexible packaging paper for greasy food products

- Development part of commitment to eliminating PFOA

 

- Entire Ahlstrom Coralpack family is available on request in NG version

 

Fiber-based materials company Ahlstrom has launched a new version of its Coralpack range that is free from Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).

 

Coralpack is a range of flexible packaging papers for direct wrapping and packing of numerous grease-containing food products, such as biscuits, pastries, coffee beans, fast food, take-away food, pizzas, microwave popcorn, butter and margarine, soup cubes and more.

 

To produce packaging papers resistant to grease, 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 invited manufacturers of fluorochemicals to commit to reduce PFOA from their emissions and products content by 95 percent 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 has designed a new generation of papers, Coralpack NG.

 

PFOA-free means the substrate does not contain PFOA, below current detection limits of 20ppb, and cannot release PFOA or any PFOA precursor.

 

The entire Ahlstrom Coralpack paper range is available on request in an NG version, free of PFOA.

 

The Coralpack range spans from 32 to 200g/sq m and offers high performance paper characteristics such as printability, laminating, extrusion and crimping.

 

Ahlstrom Coralpack is produced at the Rottersac plant in south-west France.

 

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