What’s PET/AL/LDPE triplex foil material

What’s PET/AL/LDPE triplex foil material

26/09/2020

When it comes to flexible packaging, aluminum foil sheet is considered as the best ideal package material with the best barrier performance, as you can observe the below figure of WVTR and OTR.

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oxygen-and-water-vapor-barrier-map-of-typical-barrier-films

However, aluminum foil sheet can not be used alone, mainly as of below two reasons.

  • Without seal property, Aluminum foil can not be sealed into certain forms of packages
  • The aluminum foil sheet is quitely easily folded and further cuase wrinkles that may leave tiny holes left in the foil, that largely reduce the barrier property of the original foil

so aluminum foil will have to be enabled with seal property and protection on both sides by multi-layer lamination, whereas exact property and economic factors should be relavantly considered.

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PET-AL-PE-foil-laminate

PET/AL/LDPE is considered as the most cost-effective aluminum foil laminate package in flexible packaging, with PET film working as print substrate and outer protection , and inner LDPE film working as sealing layer and inner protection. It is widely used for many products that requires great barrier property for the package, like foods, nuts, coffee, tea, treats, chemicals etc.

When the artwork is printed on the package, the print ink will be trapped between PET layer and aluminum foil layer.

The adhesive coating can be realized by dry lamination, solvent free lamination and extrusion coating lamination.

PET film is considered with wide compatibility and adaptability in industrial processing, with much stable physical property, temperature resistance, solvent or grease resistant property, that enable the processing of PET/AL/LDPE foil very easy in plant manufacturing, and also with considerable property in actual applications.

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Flat aluminum foil pouch for food

Generally speaking, foil laminate with outer PET film performs much better than the foil laminate with outer glossy BOPP or matte BOPP film, and we will share more of our knowledge and experience in future posts.

3 comments

  1. Dear Mrs. Rana,
    We are specialized in flexible packaging multilayer products. we are looking for Alu foil 7/8 my laminated with 25/30 LDPE
    Reel size 1000 mm
    Core 152 mm
    quantity Container load
    we need TDS and competitive FOB price.
    for further details contact h.micoglu@cartonal.com
    regards

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