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Redesigning liquid packaging for improved sustainability

For a long time, packaging liquids had been a challenge. Beverage cartons. Juice pouches. Condiment sachets. Cake frostings. Failures can get very messy. And seal integrity is of utmost importance. But times – and technology – are constantly changing.

The challenges of packaging liquids

Consumers want more on-the-go convenience. Lighter packaging. Sustainable packaging that is designed for recyclability. Our packaging solutions answer those needs for all sorts of applications. Our scientists are busy testing facilities and taste and odor labs to develop more dependable, economical and sustainable options for liquid packaging:

• Aseptic cartons – for food items such as milk, yogurt, cooking oil, juices, liquor, wine, and broth
• Bag-in-boxes – for foods like cooking oil, wine, water, liquid vegetable paste, sauces, condiments, and soft drink syrups, and non-edible items such as agriculture chemicals, cleaning chemicals, lubricants, and motor fluids
• Pillow pouches – for edible contents like milk, yogurt, and cooking oil
• Sachets – for food items like sauces, ketchups, condiments, dressing, flavored oils, and herbal medicines
• Stand-up pouches – for foods such as cooking oil, sauces, ketchup, dressing, condiment (food), and non-food items such as liquid detergent, conditioners, and hand-washes
• Structures using PacXpert™ Packaging Technology – for foods such as cooking oil, sauces, salad dressing, jam, relief water, mayonnaise and ketchup, and non-foods such as liquid detergent, motor oil, and paint

The answers for packaging liquids

Together, with our value chain partners, we are continuously collaborating to work toward the next great innovations in liquid packaging:

• Downgauging opportunities
• Enhanced optics for shelf appeal
• Excellent heat seal with wider sealing windows
• Effective seal through contamination
• Faster filling speeds – especially on vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) lines
• Good organoleptics
• Efficient conversion and packaging processing
• Options to re-design for recyclability and structure optimization
• Durability and toughness for greater drop performance, fewer leakers

Layer by layer, component by component, virtually the entire Dow catalog for packaging can find uses in packaging for liquids. Explore our solutions:

• AFFINITY™ Polyolefin Plastomers
• AGILITY™ EC Performance LDPE
• BYNEL™ Adhesive Resins
• DOW™ Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Resins
• DOWLEX™ Polyethylene Resins
• ELITE™ Enhanced Polyethylene Resins
• NUCREL™ Acid Copolymers

Let’s get to work. Where would you like to start?