Lids and Lidding Films
Top off packaging and containers with proven performance, processability and more.
Looking for refreshing solutions for your lids, and lidding films?
Our diverse range of ethylene-based materials can help develop innovative, sustainable solutions for almost anything that goes on top of a tub, bucket, or other container. These high quality polymers can offer durability, taste/odor performance, lighter weight, barrier, chemical resistance, and much more.
Lids
DOW™ High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Resins feature excellent flow, impact strength, rigidity, ESCR, and lightweighting capabilities. These attributes, plus low warpage and taste/odor contributions, make them a solid choice for lids on heavy-duty tubs, pails, and containers.
DOW™ Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) Resins bring flexibility/durability, high gloss, low taste and odor, and lightweighting opportunities to a wide range of lidding applications.
DOWLEX™ LLDPE Resins offer good ESCR and processability under a wide range of molding conditions. Low-temperature flexibility makes them a great option for refrigerated/frozen foods.
DOW™ LDPE Resins offer excellent aesthetics, printability, and flexibility for a variety of injection/compression molded lids.
Lidding films
APPEEL™ Peelable Resins combine tough, low-temperature sealability with excellent peelability. Ideal for food service and frozen juice cups, they also offer:
- Excellent clarity, flexibility, and impact/puncture resistance
- Easy processing at low temperatures
- One-bag convenience for consistent, repeatable performance
SURLYN™ Ionomers are a premier name in dependable seals – especially for case-ready meats. They feature exceptional optics for easy product inspection, plus:
- Low heat seal initiation
- Excellent hot tack
- Outstanding seal through contamination
- Puncture resistance
- Scratch resistance
AFFINITY™ Polyolefin Plastomers (POPs) offer improved sealant performance versus traditional polyethylene resins for trays, irregular-shaped structures, and other packaging. Advantages include:
- Excellent package integrity at fast filling speeds
- Exceptional clarity/gloss
- Good processability
- High hot tack
- Excellent heat seal
- Low heat seal initiation
- Seal through contamination
- Toughness/abuse resistance
- Very high oxygen transmission rate
Alone or in blends, SELAR™ Barrier Resins deliver the protection desired in many lidding applications. From dairy to meats to cheeses, freshness stays in, while moisture, oxygen, and other undesirables stay out. SELAR™ resins also offer:
- Low weight
- Impact resistance
- Excellent cold-temperature resistance
- Glass-like clarity
- Good processability/blendability
Teaming up with Dow can also offer access to proven innovation resources, including Pack Studios – our exclusive global network for collaborative, accelerated application development. Contact us to see how we can help you find the right lid and lidding film solution.
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