News
Green Adhesive - EP7000 Permanent Adhesive
[return]
Our solution to the need for an environmentally friendly adhesive.
While fully compostable face papers and films are relatively easy to source, 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.
[Link : http://www.adapteco.co.uk/content/files/EP7000%20data(1).doc]
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. 
As Elaine Williamson, our Product Development Manager asserts “EP7000 sets us on a very exciting journey to not only find an environmentally responsible adhesive but also one that is practical and actually works in a wide variety of applications. The adhesion tests carried out on this product set it on a similar standard to our own SP8000 adhesive”. The fact that EP7000 outperforms most leading permanent adhesives on the market is excellent news for companies who want greener products without compromising on quality.
Visit our site www.adapteco.co.uk for more information or you can contact Elaine Williamson on +44 (0) 1505 707706 or by emailing info@smcl.co.uk.
Posted on 03 March, 2009
