Food PackagingExcellence in colors

Granula Group has built its knowledge of masterbatches for the food packaging industry into a core competency, delivering unique value to customers. Our food packaging masterbatch products are all engineered to ensure the safety of plastic packaging that will come into direct or indirect contact with food. Our formulation know-how allows us to design color and additive products in compliance with the stringent regulations and requirements applying to food contact end-use applications. Granula’s main focus in this area is on caps and closures, containers and specialty films.

Smarter solutions

In the food packaging industry, as elsewhere, a major trend is lightweighting and downgauging, achieved by using less material for a more cost-effective process - without loss of performance.

In the case of caps and closures, dimensions are critical. Granula’s masterbatch solutions provide, among other things, dimensional stability at lower dosages, reducing the weight of the end product without affecting its mechanical or physical properties. We have also developed formulations to significantly reduce VOC levels and odor and we are developing solutions for integrated longlasting O2 and/or CO2 barriers. Moreover, next to providing color consistency and reliability, our color masterbatches boast excellent organoleptic properties and meet all prevailing EU and/or FDA food contact regulations.

Adding the difference

Granula Group has also purpose-developed color and combination masterbatches, specifically formulated for barrier layer technology applications, such as canisters or bottles. Our batches promote optimum barrier structures and ensure excellent processability. Tailor-made combination masterbatches are formulated from pigments and additives, processing aids or antioxidants for temperature or abrasion sensitive polymer mixtures.

Film extrusion
Film extrusion applications increasingly require the highest surface quality and exact color matches. Our customized batches are tailored exactly to your requirements and needs. We have developed solutions for frequently encountered problems such as fish eye and black specks with formulations that ensure easy processing at the highest output rates. Thanks to our products' extremely high pigment dispersion and color distribution, homogeneity irregularities are avoided, yielding a streak-free result that customers can rely on.

Learn how Granula can create customized solutions for your specific food packaging needs.

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