Henkel Unveils Universal Heat Seal Coating, Loctite Liofol HS 1181, Enhancing Efficiency and Safety in Packaging

Henkel Unveils Universal Heat Seal Coating, Loctite Liofol HS 1181, Enhancing Efficiency and Safety in Packaging

(IN BRIEF) Henkel has introduced Loctite Liofol HS 1181, a universal heat seal coating designed to simplify and enhance safety in food packaging production. Traditionally, manufacturers have needed various heat seal coatings to ensure performance and safety, adding complexity and cost to the process. Loctite Liofol HS 1181 offers a versatile, food-safe, and compliance-focused solution, eliminating the need for multiple coatings. It provides strong sealing properties for aluminum foil and polyester film, making it suitable for applications such as plastic coffee capsules, dairy lidding, water bins, and pharmaceutical blister packaging. Importantly, the solution meets stringent standards for food contact materials, ensuring consumer safety.

(PRESS RELEASE) DÜSSELDORF, 5-Oct-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — For packaging manufacturers, the need to use a range of different heat seal coatings to ensure optimal performance and safety can add considerable cost and complexity to production, supply chains and inventories. With the development of Loctite Liofol HS 1181, Henkel is helping brands and manufacturers take on these challenges with a universal, high-performing heat seal coating for sealing aluminum foil or polyester film to plastic substrates.

Containing improved formulations, food safe and compliant with the highest safety standards, Loctite Liofol HS 1181 provides a universal ready-to-use solution that eliminates the need for multiple coatings. It is ideal for applications like plastic coffee capsules, peelable dairy lidding, water bins and pharmaceutical blister packaging. The new heat seal coating is designed to provide strong sealing and hot tack properties for aluminum foil and polyester film and is sealable to various plastic substrates including PS, PP, PET, PE and PVC. At low coating weights, Loctite Liofol HS 1181 provides a peelable seal. The solution doesn’t contain Chlorine and Epoxy to ensure a high level of standards compliance for food contact. This ensures suitability for the manufacture of food packaging materials under the applicable FDA and EC-provisions.

“Loctite Liofol HS 1181 demonstrates our commitment to realize entirely new possibilities through innovation while ending previously unavoidable compromises,” explains Davide Coppola, Senior Business Development Manager at Henkel. “It brings unprecedented flexibility to manufacturers that can use the same heat seal solution for multiple packaging applications and thereby minimize cost and complexity. At the same time, this universal sealing product has been formulated with safer chemicals to provide consumers with safer food packaging that they can trust. Hence, it is a truly universal solution.”

Media Contact:

Sebastian Hinz
Henkel Adhesive Technologies
Media Relations
Headquarters, Düsseldorf/Germany
+49-211-797-8594
press@henkel.com

SOURCE: HENKEL AG