Dow Polyolefin Dispersions Gain Recognition as Can-Coating Solution
Recent R&D 100 Award and ICIS Innovation Award wins for CANVERA Polyolefin Dispersions from Dow Coating Materials (DCM), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, validate their fresh approach to can coatings. These industry accolades substantiate this novel technology as an effective, drop-in alternative to incumbent epoxy-based metal can coatings. CANVERA Dispersions offer progressive food and beverage brand owners, can makers and coatings formulators a long-term metal can packaging solution that addresses growing consumer interest in can coatings that exclude Bisphenol-A (BPA) and other materials of concern to consumers.
“CANVERA Polyolefin Dispersions are a market disruptor that helps make the food and beverage industry safer and more sustainable,” says Jonathan Mason, associate research director, Dow Coating Materials. “They allow us to use the same trusted chemistry on which we’ve relied for decades in flexible and rigid food packaging in the thin-film coatings that line metal cans. Now we can achieve a safety profile that regulators and consumers alike prefer while keeping canned foods and beverages flavorful and fresh.”