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Coated Paper and Paperboard

Make your paper products perform.

Formulations for any use

From brochures and magazines to pharmaceutical and cosmetic packaging, our extensive portfolio delivers wide-ranging performance benefits like balance of strength, printability, enhanced optical coverage, and glueability to help you formulate the right solution for any paper or paperboard grade.

Our team has experience in styrene acrylic, acrylic, vinyl acrylic, hollow sphere pigment, and BLUEWAVE™ Dispersion Technologies for use in coatings designed for SBS, coated recycled board, graphic papers, and much more.

Featured products for coated paper

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Paper and Paperboard Binders

Coating binders that deliver a balance of strength, printability, enhanced optical coverage, and glueability.

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Dispersants

Dispersants that help formulations deliver exceptional gloss development, pigment wetting, and overall formulation stability.

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Hollow Sphere Pigments

Hollow pigments provide excellent sheet gloss, opacity, and brightness to paper and paperboard for enhanced graphics.

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Rheology Modifiers

Rheology modifiers developed to meet your coating ticking needs and supporting a broad range of coating application methods.

Excellent printability

Increases opacity and improves printability for sharper, cleaner images.

Better glueability

Enhances glueability for packaging materials.

Enhanced optical properties

Balances sheet gloss, smoothness, opacity, and brightness development.

Improved adhesion

Promotes adhesion to a variety of substrateas.

Heat and water resistance

Offers superior heat resistance or water repellency.

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Additives and Modifiers

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Resins, Binders & Film Formers

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Surfactants, Emulsifiers and Polyglycols

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Learn how we can collaborate on the invention, development and testing of paper packaging solutions.

Coated Paper and Paperboard Products

Explore our full range of coated paper and paperboard products.

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