Efficient Packaging for Coffee with Jowat Adhesive Technology

Because: Adhesives from Jowat perform a bonding role in all of this.

Whether your morning routine involves whole beans, ground coffee or capsules—the taste can vary substantially, depending on the equipment used and on personal preferences. The flawless appearance, full functionality and high quality of the packaging can be a decisive factor to attract more potential customers, especially of fast-moving consumer goods like coffee. Jowat adhesives ensure the bonding and closing of those packaging materials.

Ground Coffee

Ground coffee bags are often wrapped in a secondary paper-based layer before they are sold. In many cases, this secondary packaging consists of a printed paper bag which provides additional information about the product. Apart from protecting the vacuum-sealed bag inside, this extra layer also offers a canvas for creative marketing. This secondary packaging is closed by applying a water-based dispersion adhesive at the side seam and at the top via a slot nozzle or a roller and then bonding the material. The adhesives have been adapted to match the requirements of the material and the parameters of the machine. Jowacoll^® 746.07 is an excellent example: This copolymer adhesive was developed with a focus on the machines established on the market, providing the optimum lapping time and bonding strength for the different substrates.

Pressed Coffee Capsules

For a plus in convenience, ground coffee is also filled into capsules of all shapes and sizes. In general, these capsules are made of different materials. The capsules are then packaged into small or medium-sized folding boxes. As packaging containers, folding boxes protect the product and facilitate its transport. However, they also increasingly serve as a marketing tool, to advertise the brand and the quality of the product.

Jowat adhesives for the side seam and dot gluing of folding boxes are characterized by perfectly adapted adhesion, also to challenging surfaces such as coated or varnished materials, and their excellent mechanical processing characteristics. After all, the quality of the folding box helps convince consumers of the advantages of a brand and product.

Secondary Packaging for the Coffee Industry

The requirements for packaging and packaging processes are increasing at a rapid pace. Clean, energy-efficient and sustainable solutions—including in the development and application of adhesives—are increasingly taking center stage in the industry. Modern Jowatherm^® hot melt adhesives from Jowat play an important part in facilitating the high-efficiency processes expected by processors.

Customers have been using hot melt adhesives from Jowat with great success in the most different packaging processes for many years and are impressed by the outstanding results and the significant economic advantages provided by optimized application amounts coupled with minimized maintenance costs and downtimes.