EP7000
While fully compostable face papers and films are relatively easy to souurce, finding an adhesive with the same qualities is almost impossible to come by. Ignoring certain companies claiming to have found this “holy grail” of the labelling industry, we decided to focus on finding a greener alternative to standard adhesives, as a first step towards our ultimate goal of being able to offer our customers a label that was fully home compostable. Our research resulted in the launch and subsequent success of our new EP7000 adhesive, which boasts 70% renewable content as compared to the current compostable adhesive in the market which only has 35% renewable content." Our adhesive is further backed up by a specially commissioned set of green carbon content tests (See below).
The tests utilise the same concepts as radio-carbon dating and measures the carbon content of a product. They indicate the percentage of bio-based (e.g. corn-starch) and fossil based (petrochemical) content within a particular construction and is an excellent indicator of the total amount of renewable content that a label contains. The carbon tests reveal that our EP7000 adhesive alone has 58% green carbon content vs. 3%for standard permanent adhesive.
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