Three platforms, three places
Three places on paper: inside, on top, between
Papkot makes bio-mineral solutions for paper and board. Each platform goes in a different place.
Where is your problem?
Each problem has its place on the sheet. Each place has its Papkot platform.
1 · Inside the fibre
Is the sheet too weak?
Papermaking additives make fibre bonds stronger. They go in at the wet end of the paper machine.
Papermaking additives (opens in a new tab)2 · On the surface
Does it let water or grease through?
A coating on the surface gives a barrier against water, or oil and grease.
Coatings3 · Between surfaces
Does a pack fail to seal or close?
An adhesive between two paper surfaces seals or closes the pack.
Adhesives
1 · Papermaking additives · In production
Inside the fibre
Papermaking additives go inside the fibre, at the wet end of the paper machine, where the fibres are still in water. They make fibre bonds stronger: more filler, less long fibre. They are for paper and board, and for moulded pulp.
- Fibres and filler in water
- The additive goes in at the wet end
- The sheet forms and dries
- Paper or board on the reel
- Or a mould: moulded pulp
The additive settles where fibres cross
Measured results are on pa.papkot.com. Each result shows its evidence label: mill-tested, lab-tested or extrapolated.
2 · Coatings · On sale today
On the surface
Coatings go on the surface of paper and board. They give a barrier against water, oil or grease. Paper cups and folding cartons come first.
Today our coatings run offline, on rod, gravure and blade lines, after the paper is made. Online, at the size press of the paper machine, is our roadmap: we develop our grease barriers for the size press and test them on our lab size press.
Paper cups with Papkot coatings comply with the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). Oil and grease barriers for food wraps and containerboard: KIT 6 to 12. The coat weight sets the level.
- SUPD compliant cups
- KIT 6 to 12
- Offline today
- Online: lab size press
- The paper or board unwinds from the reel.
- A rod or a gravure roll lays the barrier coating.
- Water and grease stay on the surface.
3 · Adhesives
Between surfaces
Adhesives go between two paper surfaces. Papkot makes seals and a wet glue: RBLB, a release-free cold seal, and P12, a heat seal, for packing lines; RBG, a white glue that goes on wet at the glue line of folding cartons.
Two sealing solutions: one for vertical and one for horizontal packing lines. Uses include flowpacks and pouches.
RBLB and P12 go on the web like a coating, then dry at 100 to 120 °C. RBG goes on wet at the converter, at the glue line.
- The paper web wraps the product.
- An adhesive: cold seal, heat seal or white glue.
- The jaws close the seal, on a vertical or a horizontal line.
Who uses it on the machine
Papkot supplies the chemistry and the know-how. Mills and converters use it on their own machines.
Papkot does not make packaging. Your converter makes the pack.
Your material
Which platform fits your material
Find your paper, your board or your pack. The number is its place on the sheet.
Paper and board (opens in a new tab)
1 · Papermaking additivesInside the fibre, at the mill: stronger fibre bonding, more filler, less long fibre.
Moulded pulp (opens in a new tab)
1 · Papermaking additivesFibre shaped in a mould, like an egg tray.
Paper cups
2 · CoatingsA water barrier in place of the plastic lining.
SUPD compliant
Folding cartons
2 · CoatingsAn oil and grease barrier in place of PFAS. Papkot adds no PFAS to its coatings.
Containerboard boxes
2 · CoatingsAn oil and grease barrier on containerboard, for pizza and takeaway boxes.
KIT 6 to 12, set by the coat weight
Food wraps
2 · CoatingsAn oil and grease barrier on wrap paper, with no PFAS added.
KIT 6 to 12, set by the coat weight
Transparent paper
2 · CoatingsThe TR series coating clears transparent paper.
Flowpacks and pouches
3 · AdhesivesTwo sealing solutions: one for vertical and one for horizontal packing lines.
Pack closure
3 · AdhesivesFor use at the converter, at the glue line.
Folding cartons
3 · AdhesivesRBG, the white glue: a wet glue for the glue line, polymer-free.
Not sure which place is yours?
Tell us your paper, your board or your pack. We answer within two business days.