Bridging the Gap with Magmark Coatings
Packaging designs often prioritize manufacturability over recyclability, leading to significant challenges in the recycling process. For instance, plastic bottles typically have labels made from different materials than the bottles themselves. While ideal for manufacturing, at the point of recycling, these labels cannot be easily separated away from the bottle resin. This disconnect between easy manufacturing and difficult recycling disrupts the circular economy, highlighting a critical gap in the market.
Magnomer introduces a revolutionary solution to this recycling challenge with our patented Magmark magnetizable coatings. These clear, food-safe coatings can be applied to labels and other packaging formats, enabling easy separation using magnets already present in recycling operations. This innovation not only simplifies the recycling process but also enhances the quality of recycled materials, ensuring a truly circular economy.
By integrating Magmark coatings, brands can maintain their manufacturability standards while significantly improving recyclability, without the need for capital investments or alterations to their packaging design.
Tailored Solutions for Different Applications
Magnomer’s Magmark coatings are engineered with precision, employing specific magnetic strengths customized for diverse packaging applications. This approach ensures that each type of packaging can be efficiently pulled away by magnets and recycled.
By fine-tuning the magnetizable coatings to match the characteristics and application of different packaging materials, we optimize sorting in the recycling process, ensuring maximum efficiency.
Magmark SS coatings provide optimal magnetic strength to allow lightweight shrink sleeves, which adhere to bottles without adhesives to be pulled away, after bottles have been washed and ground in the recycling process.
Magmark SS
Magmark PS
Compared to shrink sleeves, pressure-sensitive labels on HDPE containers require enhanced magnetic strength. These labels are adhered to heavier and larger HDPE flakes, necessitating a stronger magnetic force to ensure effective separation during recycling. Magmark PS coatings are engineered to deliver this increased strength, facilitating efficient recycling of these materials.
Magmark ML
For complex multi-layer packaging, Magmark Multi-Layer coatings offer maximum magnetic strength. Tailored specifically for these bulkier materials, our coatings allow materials as large as an A4 to be pulled out of recycling streams. This reduces contamination in other recycling streams and importantly, offers a recycling future for multi-layer items.
Our Coatings are
Syncs with high volume printing technologies such as solvent gravure, solvent flexo and UV flexo, requiring just a single printing station
Scalable
Graphic Ready
Transparent coatings do not affect brand artwork or design
Recyclable
Magnetization allows labels to be separated out at 98%+ in recycling operations by existing magnets
Food-Safe
Comply with all relevant safety regulations for indirect food contact
Cost-Effective
Cost equivalent to adding a color to brand artwork. Coatings also allow a less expensive film substrate to be used while maintaining the recyclability credentials
Chemical-Resistant
Magnomer’s complementary products ensure inks do not bleed during wash steps in recycling operations