To most users, our anti-slip paper looks like ordinary interleaving paper at first glance, since we apply an anti-slip coating that is as smooth as possible. This is also evident to the touch when you hold our anti-slip paper in your hand. However, this makes it difficult to tell just how effective the anti-slip effect actually is.

Load securing: proven, high-performance, and flexible

Drawing on our decades of experience, we focus on a particularly smooth paper surface. Our plastic-free anti-slip paper is designed as a pallet liner to protect particularly smooth surfaces (such as coated or printed cardboard boxes, trays, or big bags with a very smooth outer surface) against load shifting, for example, when stretch film reaches its limits or when transport is to be carried out without additional load-securing devices. In such cases, we rely on a particularly even and smooth anti-slip coating, as experience has shown that this is most effective at distributing the sliding friction values across the entire surface on slippery surfaces. To illustrate, you can imagine the surface of our anti-slip paper as if tiny gripping arms were gripping the small irregularities of a smooth surface. If, on the other hand, we had a rough or uneven surface, it would only grip if the products to be protected against movement had the same structure and thereby interlocked with each other. Accordingly, however, such an anti-slip coating would not really be universally applicable. Since a rough surface already possesses certain sliding friction coefficients by its very nature, and our coating likewise exerts a sliding friction effect at the various contact points on these surfaces, the challenge for our development team was much more to develop a universally functional, slip-resistant specialty paper.

Top quality and maximum slip resistance

Since seamless operation in a wide variety of (automated) packaging lines is very important to us, we place great emphasis on the quality of the raw materials we use and on the coating process. For example, we use high-quality smooth or dense base paper (Testliner 1), for which we test every batch in the laboratory to ensure compliance with defined specifications and carry out a complex UV-drying process after coating. This process ensures that the maximum amount of anti-slip coating remains on the surface and does not penetrate the paper fibers, where the coating would provide no added value.

When it comes to the coating process, we stand out from our competitors because our mineral-based coating is plastic-free and perfectly suited for the recycled paper cycle, making it particularly sustainable. We use a very high-quality UV curing process to ensure that the quality of our anti-slip interlayers is absolutely consistent and to enable our industrial customers to use robots seamlessly via vacuum lifting nozzles.

Since anti-slip paper is specifically a static-dissipative material, in addition to excellent sliding friction coefficients, a certain degree of durability—for example, in terms of water-repellent properties—is also important. To achieve this, most of our competitors use a plastic coating, which, while effective in achieving the desired result, can cause problems in the waste paper recycling process. For example, if waste sorting facilities detect that the paper has a plastic coating, it is, in case of doubt, classified as residual waste and can only be used for thermal recycling. In that case, no new paper product can be manufactured from it, and the paper it contains is “lost.” For this reason, we avoid using plastic in the coating, as this ensures our anti-slip paper provides effective added value in the recycling cycle.

100% reusable and recyclable

During development, the focus was naturally on ensuring particularly secure load retention and low sliding friction, as well as seamless integration into automated packaging lines. In addition, we always strive to stay true to our own “green” approach.