Siegwerk to strengthen its position as coating manufacturer

Siegwerk to strengthen its position as coating manufacturer

By establishing a global business unit dedicated to circular coatings, Siegwerk underlines its strategic focus on the development of functional coatings to support sustainable packaging innovations in the sense of a Circular Economy.

Siegwerk, one of the leading global providers of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications and labels, today announced the establishment of a new business unit dedicated to functional coatings for the realization of sustainable packaging innovations in the sense of a Circular Economy. With this extension of its organizational structure effective April 1st, 2024, the company not only underlines its increasing strategic focus towards functional coatings, but also boosts its position as enabler of circular packaging solutions across all business units.

With Gilles Le Moigne, the company has appointed an experienced packaging coating expert as Head of the CE Coatings business, who will lead the formation and development of the new division from April 2024. “I am very much looking forward to this new challenge,” explains Le Moigne. “Siegwerk is already well positioned in the field of coatings, and I am grateful being able to contribute my experiences to take its circular coatings business to the next level.” In addition to effective primer solutions amongst others for delamination and deinking as well as decorative coatings for extraordinary optical or tactile effects, Siegwerk customers can also choose from a wide range of functional coatings today. From barrier coatings against liquids, oil and grease, water vapor, oxygen, and UV light through heat seal coatings to protection coatings e.g., for heat resistance, anti-scratch, anti-slip, or anti-static, Siegwerk’s portfolio of functional coatings already covers several water-based and solvent-based technologies for different applications, substrates, coating processes and performances. All coatings are produced worldwide and are always tailored to individual customer requirements, including specific regional regulations and local market needs.

Today, Siegwerk can already look back on several successful development projects with customers and industry partners that have resulted in advanced packaging solutions with improved performance and recyclability. Together with Henkel, Siegwerk for example created an innovative oxygen barrier coating that enables mono-material packaging solutions with better recyclability and better barrier properties. In another development project Siegwerk and Packiro jointly created a sustainable fiber-based packaging solution with high protective barrier properties and 100% recyclability. By developing the new UniNATURE Water-Oil Barrier Coating, Siegwerk also launched the first barrier solution with 100% natural content enabling the recycling of single-use paper plates through the existing paper recovery cycle – to just name a few development examples.

Rethinking the design of packaging has never been more important. According to the European Commission each European generates an average of nearly 180kg of packaging waste per year and without changing anything this will rise by further 19% until 2030, with an increase in plastic packaging waste even reaching 46%. That is why the Commission agreed on EU-wide rules on packaging to stop this trend. The European Green Deal aims to reduce packaging waste through both reuse and recycling making sustainable packaging the norm. Therefore, it is urgent to rethink packaging and make it fit for all kinds of regulations and potentially upcoming bans of specific material combinations.

To learn more about Siegwerk’s coating offering, please visit siegwerk/inks-coatings

About Siegwerk
Siegwerk is one of the leading global manufacturers of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications and labels. Based on 200 years of expertise, we provide customized solutions for all types of packaging needs – from functional and eye-catching to safe and sustainable. As a seventh-generation family business, we have long been aware of our responsibility for future generations. Under the motto “rethINK packaging”, we are therefore actively driving the transformation to a circular economy by developing eco-friendly solutions that enable packaging circularity. Here, 30+ country organizations and ~5,000 employees worldwide ensure consistent high-quality products and customized support around the world. Learn more at www.siegwerk.com

Media Contact: Nathalie Müller-Samson, Manager Corporate Communications- Tel.: +49 2241 304-237
E-mail: press@siegwerk.com

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