Irplast Develops New Adhesive Tape for Food Contact Applications

    Irplast’s Research and Development Department, in collaboration with the leading producers of inks and adhesives, has developed Food Contact Tape, a unique adhesive tape on the food contact compliance market that respects the organoleptic properties of food.

    Unique Adhesive Tape

    The tape can be applied manually or with automatic tape machines.

    It allows to group products and to convey the company logo with relevant product information, becoming an effective branding tool. 

    Irplast Food Contact Tape is an ideal alternative to straps, elastic bands, trays and transparent wraps, safeguarding all the food’s organoleptic properties and significantly decreasing the quantity of secondary packaging.

    Reduces Packaging Cost

    Thanks to this innovation you can now group together food product units, increasing your product shelfappeal by labelling it with your brand image, reducing packaging materials, replacing pre-cut and costly labels with an excellent aesthetic result. Food Contact Tape reduces the cost of packaging by 65%, replaces the traditional packaging, may reduce the packaging weight by 15 times: for example, the banana tray and stretch film (about 15 grams) may be replaced by Irplast’s Food Contact Tape weighting only 1 gram.

    Compared to the traditional packaging, Food Contact Tape allows 96% savings on the Eco-tax Conai, which means improving the environmental sustainability of the packaging. It also reduces by 80% handling and logistics and also labour costs, as it can also be applied by automatic tapers.

    The production of Irplast Food Contact Tape is carried out according to the European regulation No 1935/2004 and No 2023/2006 on good manufacture practices for materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. The tape composition is compliant with EU regulation no. 10/2011 and Mercosur/GMC/RES N°32/07.

    Irplast’s careful consideration for the consumer’s safety is the basis of this project as it brought the company to the adoption of the BRC (British Retail Consortium) standard for the production process of its prevalent packaging tapes.