Main market segments
In consumer products, there are many market segments, which all have their own particular packaging demands and therefore specific adhesive requirements. Some examples:
Hot melt adhesives for case & carton sealing & tray erecting
We offer a comprehensive range of hot melt adhesives for ‘end of line’ packaging applications, such as case- and carton-sealing and tray erecting. Our product range covers a wide array of typical machine and application requirements and is produced in food safe manufacturing facilities.
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Kristof Andrzejewski
Business Development Manager Packaging Adhesives & Food Contact Waxes
Contact a specialist
We're here when you need us, every step of the way.
Contact a specialist
We're here when you need us, every step of the way.
Dry foods and cereals
Need food contact approved products and sift proof packages
Confectionery
Requires low odor transfer
Dairy, fish, meat and other refrigerated foods
Moisture resistance and low odor
Beer, spirits, water and other beverages
Good hot tack, load bearing capacity
Agriculture
Fast setting, good hot tack and resistance to high ambient temperatures
Frozen foods
Resistance to low temperature
Home and personal care
Light color, sift proof
Typical applications covered
In these market segments there are many packaging applications where our hot melt adhesives are used:
- Case & carton sealing
- Tray forming
- Folding carton closing
- Sift proof cartons
- Case & carton sealing
- Tray forming
- Folding carton closing
- Sift proof cartons
Download our brochure for an overview of our range.
Our products
Our comprehensive range of hot melts includes EVA, EnBA and Metallocene grades:
The Excelta™ metallocene polyolefin based hot melts have a number of distinct advantages over conventional EVA or EnBA based hotmelt adhesives, offering significant benefits in relation to the costs, quality and safety of your operations:
Machine operation benefits
- Optimal jetting performance for consistent application
- Excellent thermal stability, no char or discoloration
- Outstanding viscosity stability, consistent running
Application benefits
- Reduced adhesive consumption per pack
- Tailored adhesion even to most difficult substrates (e.g. PP, PET, UV varnished)
- Wide service temperature range offering high and low temperature resistance
machine operational benefits
| MACHINE OPERATION BENEFITS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Features | Benefits | Specifics |
| Reduced adhesive consumption | 10% lower density and enhanced bonding performance allow significantly lower consumption | Direct adhesive cost saving typically 20-40%, depending on application. |
| Excellent thermal stability | No gel and char formation resulting in reduced maintenance requirements | Reduced maintenance costs by e.g.20%. Tank, hose, filter, nozzles |
| Outstanding viscosity stability | Adhesive runs continuously well without need for adjustment of machine settings | • Reduced operator intervention needed. • Machine can be set for optimal adhesive dosage and placement. |
| Optimal jetting performance | Consistent bead size and placement without stringing or tailing. | • Reduced machine downtime for clean ups • Improved package appearance |
| Volatile free | No generation of odour or fumes | Improved working environment |
| Low melt grades | Achieve required bonding performance and machineability from application temperatures as low as 100°C | • Reduced energy consumption • Reduced line start up time • Reduced hazard exposure |
application benefits
| APPLICATION BENEFITS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Features | Benefits | Specifics |
| High purity raw materials | Better credentials for food packaging applications | • Enhanced package appearance • Direct food contact approval • Reduced organoleptic impact (pass the Robinson test) |
| Wide service temperature range | Final bonds are able to resist to both high temperatures as well as deep freeze conditions | • Improved security in the supply chain, reduced complaints. • Potential to reduce the number of hot melts in use |
| Effective bonding | Bonds to a wide range of difficult substrate materials. | Grades covering plain, printed, coated and lacquered boards |
For those requiring a hot melt with a broader operating window compared to the EVA-based products, we offer our Plastomelt Plus range. These products have more flexibility and cold temperature resistance, but also withstand high temperatures better. A higher level of specific adhesion helps dealing with coated or varnished substrates.
Our Plastomelt™ products cover the full range of requirements from low cost, technical grade yellow EVA’s through to direct food contact, white grades optimally formulated to achieve the desired cost performance balance.
We produce in 
food safe facilities
Partnership in Performance audit program
In order to select the right type of hot melt adhesive, it is important for us to understand your requirements. Therefore we recommend to have one of our experts audit your application, instead of just offering you a countertype for your current product. That also allows us to support and train you and your staff on how best to use our adhesives! What can we offer you:
- initial audit of your process
- adhesive testing and evaluation
- conversion to new adhesive & on-going support
Consistent patterns
Paramelt’s Pattern Waxes have long been the preferred choice of demanding investment casting foundries worldwide. Renowned for batch-to-batch quality and consistency, our brands Cerita®, KC™, Paracast™ and Parafree® provide technically superior performance.
Kristof Andrzejewski
Business Development Manager Packaging Adhesives & Food Contact Waxes
Technology leadership
Paramelt has many years of experience in development, production and marketing of hotmelt adhesives for various
(packaging) applications. Let that experience perform for you.
Experience in raw materials and formulations
- Constant Product Development
- Continuous exchange with raw material supplier
In order to …
- Meet the evolving end-user requirements
- Offer highly cost-efficient products
Experience with the production of hot melt adhesives
- Versatile and efficient production line
- Thorough QC on raw materials and finished products
In order to …
- Secure the quality of our adhesives
- Guarantee batch-to-batch consistency
- Offer premium products at the sharpest price
Experience with applications, materials and technologies
- On-site line audits
- High level of interaction with co-suppliers
- In-house screening of end-user packaging materials
In order to …
- Select the right product for the customer’s set-up
- Be a sounding board and resource to our customers
- Achieve maximum customer satisfaction!
At Paramelt we believe that customer satisfaction is the best guarantee for a long-term sales relationship!
Global market leader
Paramelt is the world’s largest manufacturer of investment casting waxes. The company has a long-standing proven track record in the investment casting industry further enhanced with the heritage of Argüeso and Kindt Collins acquisitions.
Kristof Andrzejewski
Business Development Manager Packaging Adhesives & Food Contact Waxes
Hot melts in food contact applications
Food packaging
Hot melt adhesives are widely used in both primary and secondary paper and board based packaging, although in most cases the hot melt itself does not intentionally come in to direct contact with the packaged foodstuff. Despite this, in recent years, both brand owners and retailers have been setting increasingly demanding requirements on their packaging materials with the goal to guarantee maximum levels of consumer safety.
Direct food contact
Paramelt also have invested heavily in both product development and manufacturing facilities to be able to offer the highest possible standards of food safety from its hot melt adhesives.
Since 2015, Paramelt have been manufacturing its hot melts in Europe in an FSSC 22000 certified, purpose-built facility, employing comprehensive standards of HACCP and GMP to be able to certify its products to the tightest requirements. (USA planned 2020).
In addition to employing these demanding manufacturing criteria, Paramelt select carefully controlled and fully certified raw materials to be able to offer the most food contact compliant adhesives possible.
If food contact is an important subject for you please find more details in our comprehensive brochure. Download our food safe packaging hot melt program
Ensuring food safety
Paramelt’s triple approach allows brand owners and retailers to make conscious choices about the components employed in their food packaging materials.
The 3 critical elements are
- Food grade facilities
- Selected food contact materials
- Controlled raw material streams
This combination provides customers the confidence that their hot melt adhesive meets the highest possible standards of food safety.
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Packaging hot melt range
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Packaging hot melt range
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Below you find the main product leaflets for this market.
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packaging hot melt range
Packaging is in our DNA
Paramelt is a global supplier of waxes, adhesives and water based coatings for a variety of packaging applications. For more than 125 years we have been formulating for the packaging industry giving us a unique insight into critical requirements. In a number of packaging segments such as vegetable waxes and in-mould labelling hot melts we are market leaders with benchmark products.
We are Paramelt
Paramelt
Dutch, since 1898
revenue 2024: €265 mln
# employees 2024: 490
owned by Ter Group
Ter Group
German, since 1908
revenue 2024: €920 mln
# employees 2024: 1105
owned by Westphal family
Paramelt is the leading global supplier of wax-based products for the packaging industry, providing benchmark products such as vegetable waxes and in-mould labelling hot melts. With Aquaseal polymer dispersions we provide unique water-based, heat seal & barrier solutions, whilst our in-line packaging & labelling adhesives are tuned to ‘keep the line running’ in critical manufacturing environments.
Specialists (niche player)
Packaging share
> 25% of our business
# packaging products
~750
We are specialists, investing globally to provide the capacity to support our customers. Building on the functionality of wax, we have diversified through both acquisition and technology investments in complementary water-based technologies. Where opportunities offer a good match between our capabilities and the market needs, we are always open to invest.
With an entrepreneurial attitude
Volume new product
platforms last 10 years
Nowax, Aquaseal,
labelling, 30%
Speculative
capacity expansion
~30.000 T
Bespoke products are our standard, especially in the flexible packaging industry where pack structures are constantly evolving. Advances in both natural wax and water based technologies are yielding more sustainable structures by reducing material weight, eliminating solvent use and employing renewable materials. Our adhesive specialists also understand the challenge of bonding demanding surfaces and where a standard product doesn’t fit we have the tool box to bring a customized solution.
Driven by technology and innovation
# laboratory requests
380 last year
# new product launches
35 last year
The evolution of modern packaging lines receives our constant focus to ensure we provide high performance, reliable products. Product safety is also of primary concern in the food sector. Paramelt plays a leading role in shaping regulatory compliance and have invested in FSSC 22000 across our manufacturing base. We can maintain supply in the most demanding market conditions thanks to our global footprint and expert sourcing specialists.
Delivering security and consistency
Top 3 reasons to
recommend Paramelt*)
– reliable supplier
– consistent quality
– value for money
*) Customers survey Europe and USA
FSSC/ISO 22000 investment
NL, CN, USA
From our various manufacturing sites, we can provide product equivalence with local sourcing around the world. We also operate local application labs to support specific regional product requirements. In addition to our own regional sales teams we support a knowledgeable distributor network for more standardized segments such as packaging hotmelts and labelling adhesives.
With a global reach and local service
#manufacturing sites
packaging products
Europe : 2
USA : 3
China : 1
customers in
> 70 countries
At the core of our performance lies a team of experienced and knowledgeable industry experts. We have built long-term partnerships and are responsive, flexible, committed and loyal. As well as direct product sales we maintain a number of close tolling relationships where the skills and capabilities of our people and systems make the critical difference.
Building on people and partnership
Average employee retention
> 12 years
Paramelt = ‘knowledge & experience’
recognized by > 85% customers
(Customers survey Europe and USA)
Top 20 customers
avg length relationship
> 20 years
Our locations
With 8 production facilities supplying to more than 80 countries, we truly combine a global perspective with local service.
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