Country: Austria

Category: Packaging Materials and Components

These days, tear tapes (e.g. for envelopes / shipping packaging / e-commerce / food & tobacco packaging) are mostly made of very strong polypropylene (PP) or polyester (PET) film. The film-based tear tapes are often the only feature of the envelopes / packaging made of plastic and which is not biodegradable. In a close partnership, MM Neupack and TANN GERMANY – both plants of MM Packaging GmbH – started research and laboratory testing for paper-based tear tapes:
The choice of a strong paper, offering high stability (breaking force) with the lowest possible thickness, was a key part of the project. This substrate also needed to allow a good coating with self-adhesive material. On one side of the paper, a thicker layer of adhesive is applied.