New Adhesive from Ashland Expands Food Packaging Options for Converters

DUBLIN, Ohio -- A new technology from Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. , provides options for converters to expand food packaging opportunities. Ashland's Purelam Fastcure™ two-component urethane solventless adhesives will be featured products at Pack Expo to be held Oct. 31 - Nov. 3 in Chicago. Ashland's Purelam Fastcure™ adhesives feature unique and extremely long, yet stable, viscosity that provides hours of run time. This flexibility is coupled with a fast-curing technology that allows package adhesion to cure within 24-48 hours at room temperature. Ashland's Purelam Fastcure solventless laminating adhesives are aliphatic polyurethane-based and Food