BIO-BASED WOODMER® PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS
Bio-based WOODMER® polymers provide alternatives to plastics. Ecohelix WOODMER® biopolymer products are sustainable emission reducing materials, renewable polymer products derived from wood biomass side streams. These novel bio-based polymers provide excellent performance with low CO2 emissions helping formulators, converters and brand owners to reach high sustainability without compromising the performance of the polymers.
WOODMER® biopolymer is an amphiphilic polymer possessing film forming and adhesive properties. It is surface active which makes it highly useful in several different application areas in heat seal coatings, dispergation, adhesives and paper chemicals, alternatives to plastics and other harmful materials.
Heat Seal Coatings
WOODMER® Seal
Fully wood-based monomaterial solution for heat seal coatings, fulfilling increasingly tightening packaging oblications
Dispergation
WOODMER® Disperse
Versatile dispersing resin for water-based systems replacing oil-based dispersants for kaolin and other inorganic particles
Adhesives
WOODMER® Bind
High dry content and low viscosity enabling high wet tack and fast drying time – without microplastics problem
Paper Chemicals
WOODMER® Pulp
Superior performance in paper chemical applications at lower overall cost for the customer
WOODMER® properties
- Film forming, which is important for films and adhesives as it provides structural stability to a film material or an adhesive joint
- Amphiphilic, which gives them surface active properties. This enables them to reduce the surface tension of key components in a formulation (for example water and oil or water and inorganic particles). This is utilized in a variety of applications such as ASA emulsification and kaolin dispersion, which are important in paper and board manufacturing
- Tacky (stick to the surface of other materials). This property together with the film forming ability is important for adhesive applications, providing the bond between the adherends
- Thermosoftening, which enables their use in plastic matrices and enables heat-seal coatings important for packaging applications
In technical terms
- Hemicellulose, polymer with sodium lignosulfonate (CAS: 2769734-64-5)
- Biobased, sustainable, renewable and non-food based polymer
- Non-mutagenic (Eurofins / OECD 471 and 487)
- Food contact safe (compliant with BfR Recommendation XXXVI and Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) No. 1935/2004, (WOODMER® Pulp)
Sustainability
- Low CO2 emissions:
- 0,582 kg CO2eq/kg or -1,059 kg CO2eq/kg with biogenic uptake
- 0,677 kg CO2eq/kg in formulated products
- 98 % biobased (Dincertco biobased certificate: 8C243)
- Compliant with Nordic ecolabel
PERFORMANCE YOU CAN EXPECT
Low GHG emissions
0,582 kg CO2eq/kg
20 times higher performance
compared to reference products
Amphifillic, film forming, tackiness and thermosoftening properties
For further information and samples, please contact Ecohelix Sales/Daniel Jonsson
tel: +46 79 336 3530
