Plain paper has many advantages: lightness, versatility and adaptability to different formats are some of them. One thing it doesn’t really offer, though, is strong barrier properties: plain paper has little chance of standing up to moist or greasy products for more than a few minutes at a time.
However, using paper-based materials doesn’t mean having to sacrifice essential functionality, such as the barrier properties that are essential for applications such as food packaging. While our papers retain the light weight of their base material, their metallized coating forms a barrier against light, moisture, vapour and odour that depending on the end-use application can be a sustainable (metallized paper = a recyclable mono-material) alternative to multilayer alternatives, such as products with PE layers.