en.Wedoany.com Reported - BASF has recently introduced a certified compostable ecovio® bioplastic portfolio for flexible barrier packaging, offering a modular solution that combines barrier properties with environmental benefits.

This flexible barrier packaging series supports home composting, with some grades containing up to 80% bio-based content or utilizing certified BMB biomass-balanced materials, resulting in a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to standard grades. The barrier structure can be designed in single or multiple layers, providing resistance to grease, liquids, oxygen, and moisture. It is compatible with processes such as extrusion coating, sheet extrusion, and extrusion lamination, allowing processing on paper or plastic substrates without the need to replace existing equipment, thereby reducing transition costs.

Food-contact grade products feature good mechanical and optical properties, enabling the production of ultra-thin biaxially oriented films, expanding application scenarios for home-compostable packaging. Its sealing performance allows it to serve as a barrier layer, adapting to hot and cold, dry and wet, solid and liquid packaging. It covers sectors including food and beverage, personal care, medical, and pet food, used in stand-up pouches, sachets, trays, etc., for containing coffee, snacks, sauces, or household chemicals and medical supplies.

ecovio® offers diverse end-of-life options. Paperboard-based packaging can achieve high fiber recovery through paper recycling systems; when contaminated with food, it can be organically recycled, facilitating nutrient cycling; flexible plastic packaging can fully biodegrade in industrial or home composting without generating persistent microplastics. Companies can customize barrier and end-of-life solutions based on functionality, processing requirements, and regulations to enhance sustainability.

Michael Bernhard Schick from BASF's global business management team for Biopolymers stated: "With the new ecovio® portfolio, we offer flexible packaging producers a comprehensive set of modular material solutions, giving them the freedom to choose: they can flexibly balance barrier performance, processing technology, and recycling options according to specific application needs and sustainability goals. This helps converters and brand owners jointly develop high-performance packaging solutions while considering end-of-life options right from the product development stage."

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