Packaging for burgers and other fast food – with zero acrylates and zero fluorochemicals

With Koehler NexPlus® OGR and Koehler NexPlus® Wrap, Koehler Paper has enhanced its fast-food paper offerings and brought them even more in line with customer demand for sustainability. These products are now not only made without the use of fluorochemicals but also without the use of acrylates, making them a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative to the packaging paper used in the fast food industry to date.

Christoph Wachter, Head of the Flexible Packaging Paper division at Koehler Paper, says: “With this step forward, we now have sustainable fast food packaging that works perfectly without any acrylates or fluorochemical coatings while providing the same exact level of functionality. Not only that, but the paper is 100% recyclable.” The fiber material used for the product consists exclusively of pulp from certified sustainable forestry and controlled sources.

Back in 2019, Koehler Paper invested 300 million euros in flexible packaging paper with its new production line 8. Since then, the largest MG paper machine in the world has been producing flexible packaging paper with barrier coatings with a wide range of functions. These include, in particular, odor, grease, mineral oil, and even oxygen barriers. The paper really delivers in terms of the primary purposes of packaging: to protect the contents and their surroundings as well as provide excellent processing properties. One crystal-clear example can be seen in Koehler’s new Koehler NexPlus® OGR paper, which has the high grease resistance kit rating of 7 required for french fries, sandwiches, and wraps.