Key Points
- PET bottle labeling requires hot melt adhesives capable of ensuring precise application, long-term stability, and aesthetic transparency, maintaining label quality throughout the bottle’s lifecycle.
- Hot melts used in the beverage industry provide consistent performance even at high line speeds, reducing the use of auxiliary materials and improving handling and transportation safety and efficiency.
- During recycling, these adhesives support a more efficient process, as they facilitate the removal and separation of labels, enabling the production of high-quality rPET.
- Solutions such as BAM® Pressen 1726 and BAMFutura® 801 meet the needs of modern packaging lines, offering reliable adhesion, compatibility with various types of labels, and stable performance on carbonated and non-carbonated bottles.
- Hot melt adhesives for PET bottles are fully compliant with European regulations on collection and recycling, contributing to the development of responsible and circular packaging in the beverage sector.
PET bottle labeling represents a crucial phase in the beverage packaging process. In addition to ensuring brand recognition, the label must provide stable adhesion, aesthetic appearance, and recyclability compatibility.
Hot melt adhesives for bottle labeling, specifically developed for the food and beverage sector, meet these needs, combining production efficiency with environmental impact awareness.
Index
- The PET Bottle Labeling Process
- Hot Melt Adhesives for Labeling: Performance and Environmental Care
- Hot Melt Adhesives for PET Bottles: BAM® Pressen1726 and BAMFutura® 801
- Hot Melt for Packaging and Palletizing in the Beverage Industry
- Compliance and Innovation in Accordance with European Regulations
- Explore Hot Melt Solutions for Packaging and Labeling with Mascherpa Experts
- Learn More About Adhesives for PET Bottle Labeling
The PET Bottle Labeling Process
During production, PET bottles are filled with beverages and subsequently labeled using hot melt adhesives. Labels are applied precisely, ensuring a clean and durable result even at high line speeds.
Once filled and labeled, the bottles are grouped into multi-packs and palletized using hot melt adhesive solutions that securely fix the packages, reducing the need for plastic rings or stretch film.
This phase enables more efficient and safer handling throughout the supply chain, while limiting the use of secondary materials.
Hot Melt Adhesives for Labeling: Performance and Environmental Care
Hot melt adhesives designed for PET bottle labeling offer a combination of stable adhesion, easy removal, and aesthetic transparency.
They are formulated for wrap-around labeling of PET bottles with paper or plastic film labels, ensuring secure attachment throughout the product’s life.
During the recycling process, these adhesives are designed to allow labels to be efficiently removed and separated from bottles, enabling the regeneration of PET into high-quality rPET.
The light color of the bottle labeling adhesives makes them virtually invisible on the label, maintaining brand visual integrity and a transparent aesthetic appearance on the bottle.
Thanks to good stability over a wide temperature range, the label position remains stable on carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, ensuring consistent performance under various storage and distribution conditions typical of the beverage supply chain.
Hot Melt Adhesives for PET Bottles: BAM® Pressen 1726 and BAMFutura® 801
Within the solutions for PET bottle labeling, BAM® Pressen 1726 and BAMFutura® 801 are two references for PET bottle labeling.
BAM® Pressen 1726 is designed for high productivity lines and integrates with major application technologies for wrap-around labels. It ensures reliable adhesion under variable operating conditions, making it suitable for the typical demands of carbonated and non-carbonated beverages.
BAMFutura® 801 is a hot melt adhesive suitable for PET bottles, particularly for carbonated beverages. It is characterized by a water white and transparent appearance, high cohesive strength, and the ability to be used on a wide range of labels, container types, machinery, and applications.
Thanks to these features, BAM® Pressen 1726 and BAMFutura® 801 allow for the reconciliation of aesthetic quality, production stability, and recyclability of PET bottles.
Hot Melt for Packaging and Palletizing in the Beverage Industry
In addition to labeling, beverage packaging requires specific adhesives for secondary packaging and palletizing.
For boxes and packaging intended for transport, Mascherpa offers the Advantra® BonDra™ range, a family of hot melts developed to ensure reliable, clean, and consistent bonding over time.
These solutions help reduce waste and machine downtime, improving load safety along the logistics chain.
Regarding packaging adhesives, the product Advantra® Earthic™ 9500 represents the biodegradable option, ideal for projects aimed at further reducing the environmental impact of packaging.
Compliance and Innovation in Accordance with European Regulations
Adhesive solutions for PET bottle labeling are designed to be consistent with European legislation, which requires member states to achieve increasingly challenging targets in terms of plastic collection and recycling.
These adhesives support deposit return systems and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies, contributing to a production model based on environmental responsibility, resource reuse, and efficient PET recycling into rPET.
Explore Hot Melt Solutions for Packaging and Labeling with Mascherpa Experts
For a more in-depth analysis of the topic, you can visit the Mascherpa Expert section dedicated to hot melt adhesives for packaging and labeling.
In this space, Brando Giannosso and Matteo Bonzi, Mascherpa technical experts, explain how to choose the most suitable adhesive to ensure production continuity, reduced consumption, and compliance with industry requirements.
Hot melts selected by Mascherpa ensure consistent adhesion even in the presence of humidity and temperature variations, reduce machine downtime thanks to stable and clean formulations, and contribute to improving the overall sustainability of packaging lines.
Learn more about Adhesives for PET Bottle Labeling
Today, PET bottle labeling requires adhesives capable of combining technical performance, line efficiency, and environmental care.
Hot melt solutions for PET bottles distributed by Mascherpa in collaboration with H.B. Fuller ensure stable adhesion, controlled removal, and recyclability compatibility, guiding producers and brands towards truly circular packaging.
Contact Mascherpa experts to explore the most suitable solutions for your bottle labeling and sustainable packaging processes.
For more information, download our technical guide dedicated to hot melt adhesives for packaging and labeling.
