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Plastic Lids & Lidding Film Solutions
Top off packaging and containers with proven performance, processability and more
Looking for premium lids for your packaging? Our diverse range of ethylene-based materials can help develop innovative 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.
Lid Applications
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™ Low Densisty Polyethylene (LDPE) Resins
Provide excellent aesthetics, printability, and flexibility for a variety of injection/compression molded lids.
Lidding Film Brands
APPEEL™ Peelable Resins
Combine tough, low-temperature sealability with excellent peelability. Ideal for food service and frozen juice cups, they also offer excellecnt clarity, flexibility and impact puncture resistance, as well as easy processing at low temperature.
SURLYN™ Ionomers
Premier name in dependable seals – especially for case-ready meats. They feature exceptional optics for easy product inspection, plus scratch and puncture resistance, low heat seal initation, excellent hot tack, and outstanding seal through contamination.
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, toughness/abuse resistance, high hot tack, excellent heat seal and more.
Lids and Lidding Film resources
Pack Studios™: We're accelerating the future of packaging.
Discover more on Dow’s project offerings for injection molded lid applications.
APPEEL™ Peelable Resins is a pre-formulated, peelable resin brings controlled adhesion for packaging that’s truly easy to open.
FAQs
Plastic lids for rigid packaging are commonly made from polyethylene resins such as HDPE and LLDPE. These materials offer durability, flexibility, good impact strength, and low taste and odor contribution while enabling lightweight designs for tubs, buckets, and other containers.
Plastic lids and closures are widely used across industries such as food and beverage, personal care, household products, and pharmaceutical packaging. Polyethylene-based lid materials provide durability, safety, and reliable sealing across these applications.
High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is widely used for lids because it provides a strong balance of stiffness, toughness, impact strength, and environmental stress crack resistance (ESCR). These properties help ensure durable, reliable lids for containers such as tubs, pails, and food packaging.
High-performance lids must provide durability, chemical resistance, lightweighting potential, and excellent taste and odor performance. Dow’s ethylene-based polymers help deliver these properties while also enabling barrier performance and processability for a variety of container lid applications.
Dow’s polyethylene materials for lids can help reduce environmental impact by enabling lightweight designs, mono-material packaging, and recyclability. These solutions help manufacturers reduce material use and support sustainability goals while maintaining performance.
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