Packaging has to do more than ever before: it must reliably protect products, conserve resources, be produced economically and remain recyclable. This is exactly where Inline Coating comes in - as a key technology for modern and future-ready plastic packaging.
Customer Benefit:
High-performance packaging with less material, lower complexity, and improved recyclability - while reducing production costs and energy consumption.
Rethinking Functionality
Traditionally, packaging films are often functionalized through additional layers, coatings or laminations. This increases complexity, material consumption and, in many cases, the effort required in downstream processing.
Inline Coating takes a different approach: functional properties are created directly during film production. The coating is applied during the running process as an extremely thin layer - precisely controlled and exactly where it is needed. These layers can be up to 500 times thinner than a human hair while still providing essential barrier or protective functions.
As much functionality as necessary, as little material as possible.
This makes it possible to create high-performance packaging solutions with less complex structures, reduced resource consumption and clear economic advantages.
More Performance with
Less Material and Complexity
Inline Coating enables packaging films with reduced material input and simplified structures. Barrier properties, for example against oxygen or moisture, can be created through ultra-thin coatings - without additional complex laminate structures.
Where several different materials previously had to be laminated together to meet demanding requirements, simpler structures may be sufficient in many future applications. This not only reduces raw material use, but also supports more recyclable film concepts and mono-material approaches.
Another advantage: because the coatings themselves account for only a minimal share of the overall structure, they hardly affect the recycling process. Inline Coating therefore makes an important contribution to packaging solutions that better combine performance and circularity.
At the same time, the technology opens up new possibilities for partially replacing conventional barriers such as aluminum or multilayer structures. Comparable protective effects can be achieved with less material, lower complexity and greater flexibility in packaging design.
Inline Coating also offers clear process-related advantages: because the coating is integrated directly into production, additional process steps such as offline coating or lamination can be reduced or avoided. This saves energy, lowers costs and supports stable, scalable production processes.
A Technology Platform
for the Future
Inline Coating is more than a single innovation. It is a technology platform that combines performance, sustainability and economic efficiency.
A key advantage is that the technology is open to future developments. New coating systems, materials and functional applications can be integrated as soon as they are ready for the market. Inline Coating therefore not only provides solutions for current requirements, but also offers strong potential for technological differentiation in the market.
Potential applications range from packaging solutions to technical films. Existing systems can be continuously optimized and adapted to new requirements - for example with regard to sustainability, product protection, cost efficiency or regulatory demands.
Conclusion: Less is more - also in Packaging
Inline Coating shows how technological progress, sustainability and economic efficiency can be meaningfully combined. By integrating functional properties directly into the production process, high-performance films can be created with less material, less complexity and greater design freedom.
For the industry, this means: as much function as necessary, as little material as possible - and therefore more possibilities for future-ready packaging.
Innovation
in Practice
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