Future-proof technology: for its Nature MultiPack (NMP) KHS has produced a universal adhesive that can be used on practically all outer coatings on both aluminum and tin cans.

This makes it easier for many beverage producers to convert to this environmentally-friendly style of packaging.

Since this system became successfully established on the market, the demands made of the adhesive especially have continuously increased.

The Dortmund systems supplier has answered this call and now enables customers to create appropriate packs with the new one-fits-all system for beverage cans, thus also helping them to achieve their sustainability targets.

When it comes to circular packaging, KHS helps its customers by providing specific advice and developing and implementing environmentally-friendly and circular systems. These include its NMP.

As one of the most sustainable types of secondary packaging, this future-proof technology does away with secondary packaging completely, holding packs of six beverage cans, for instance, together with just a few dots of adhesive.

To date, choosing the right adhesive was something of a challenge: numerous advance tests had to be run to check how an ideal amount of the same creates the perfect balance between high pack stability and easy-to-remove beverage cans when applied to the different coatings can manufacturers use on their containers.

There’s a huge variety of can lacquers, running into several hundreds worldwide.

They often have very different surface properties, from matte to glossy. The discrepancies in chemical and physical properties such as roughness are enormous.

The implemented one-fits-all solution enables beverage producers to form the perfect NMP from all standard formats and sizes.

On the one hand, both matte and glossy containers can be processed without complex adhesive changeovers being necessary; on the other, future customers no longer have to keep to a given selection of surface lacquers.

This makes pack production more flexible and efficient, which in turn also has a positive impact on the supply chain.