Shorewood Packaging Offers Renewable Coating
Published: November 10th, 2009
Shorewood Packaging (New York) has launched TerraGreen which it says is the first water-based coating made from renewable resources. Developed by Shorewood strategic supplier ACTEGA Terra GmbH of Germany, TerraGreen is free of solvents and petrochemicals, allowing paper board packaging that uses the coating to be processed in a municipal recycling program.
With a formulation based on resins and waxes extracted from plant and tree sources, the coating has been tested and assessed as “readily biodegradable” by Wessling Laboratories GbmH of Germany.
Applied as a gloss or matte coating on an offset litho press, TerraGreen has all the characteristics of a traditional water-based coating, including high performance, very good migration properties, and resistance to scratching, scuffing, and blocking, the company says.
The latest product in Shorewood’s greenchoice Environmental Solutions program, the coating is available from Shorewood through a limited exclusive agreement for use in facilities in North America and China.
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