UPM Specialty Papers has confirmed a compostable option for paper-based food stickers in line with the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), with the company’s LabelCoat and LabelCoat Prime label face papers certified as both industrially (EN13432:2000) and home compostable (NFT51-800:2015).
PPWR aims to ensure that all packaging in the EU must be reusable or recyclable by 2030. It also sets out the requirements that sticky labels attached to fruits and vegetables need to be compostable in industrially controlled conditions. In addition to fruit stickers, UPM LabelCoat and UPM LabelCoat Prime can be used for a variety of other pressure-sensitive labelling applications. Both are printable using the HP Indigo’s LEP/LEPx technology, as well as flexo, offset and letterpress.
‘We are happy to provide a compostable solution, which helps our customers to meet this regulatory change as well as their sustainability targets,’ explained Juhani Ylikoski, sales director at UPM Specialty Papers.
