Packaging
With rising demand for sustainable and high-performance packaging, the industry is challenged to innovate while embracing its responsibility to the environment. Brands and manufacturers must deliver packaging that is strong, printable, and environmentally conscious, striking a balance between durability, print quality, and sustainability.
The packaging market continues its consistent growth trajectory, driven by evolving consumer demands and sustainability imperatives. Modern packaging serves simultaneously as a high-performance container with technical characteristics perfectly adapted to end products, and as a crucial communications medium for targeting consumers.
From liquid packaging board to coated cardboard, today's packaging solutions must excel across multiple dimensions. They require robust structural integrity to protect contents, superior printability to support high-quality graphics and branding, and sustainability credentials to meet environmental expectations.
However, achieving this balance of strength, printability, and sustainability presents manufacturing challenges. Each production step, from wet-end strength development through surface sizing to final coating, demands precise formulation and optimization to deliver consistent, high-quality results.
Roquette leverages expertise and innovative technology to address these multifaceted challenges, providing comprehensive solutions that enable packaging manufacturers to excel in today's competitive marketplace.
Our solutions
We offer an extensive range of innovative products specifically designed for strong, printable, and sustainable packaging applications. Our solutions support every critical manufacturing step: wet-end strength development, surface sizing optimization, emulsification processes, and advanced coating formulations.
Our natural polymer-based products are formulated to meet the demanding requirements of modern packaging, ensuring optimal performance across diverse applications, including liquid packaging board, coated cardboard, and specialty packaging materials.
For paper and board packaging, especially carton packaging for consumer goods in food and food-contact applications, our cellulosic ingredients provide excellent film-forming barrier coatings to help address migration concerns. They act as effective barriers against oils and fats, aliphatic and aromatic compounds, including MOSH and MOAH, while their Newtonian-to-pseudoplastic rheology supports easy and uniform coating.
ETHOCEL™ ethyl cellulose are organo-soluble polymers. They provide film-forming barrier coatings that are clear, durable, and water-resistant. ETHOCEL™ polymers are excellent binders and rheology modifiers in solvent-based systems. For water-based sizing and coating, METHOCEL™ cellulose ethers dissolve readily in water (certain grades are soluble in specific organic solvents), offering formulation versatility and consistent application across paper and board.
Working collaboratively with customers, we develop customized formulations that address specific performance requirements while maintaining cost-effectiveness.
Our technical expertise and equipment support
Beyond product supply, our dedicated packaging specialists provide comprehensive technical support throughout your manufacturing process. We understand that packaging success depends on seamless integration across all steps.
This approach, combining innovative sustainable products with hands-on technical partnership, enables our customers to consistently deliver packaging that protects products, enhances brand communication, and meets sustainability goals in today's dynamic packaging marketplace.