Jokey manufactures seal dispersion buckets with safety films for building protection products

04 Jul 2022 --- Jokey is unveiling a bucket with a sealing lid for filling dispersion paints with its long-standing customer Meffert. Meffert, headquartered in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, primarily produces paints and varnishes in addition to plasters and building protection products. The sealing technology ensures the quality characteristics of the product more strongly than before, optimizing the processing procedure.

In 2020, both companies started an initial test series for the development of the sealing lids. For the buckets, Jokey relies on the oval JETO+, proven as packaging for paints, adhesives, and other building materials.

The Jokey developers also drew on extensive experience: on the one hand, Jokey has decades of expertise in sealing food packaging; and on the other hand, the developers have also been experimenting for a long time with different approaches to sealing techniques in cooperation with Jokey customers from the non-food sector.

SIFO technology
From the tests with Meffert, a sealing technology has now been developed for the first time for a customer from the paint industry: SIFO technology. The acquisition of a high-performance, fully automatic filling line with bucket sealing enabled Meffert to start filling the first SIFO containers in December 2021.

At the beginning of 2022, the 15 L JETO+ 150 container with a special sealing lid was launched on the market. Other sizes are in the planning stage.

The Jokey sealing lid is 100% liquid-tight. The safety film applied by Meffert between the lid and the bucket after filling prevents the paint from sticking to the lid. The technology is particularly suitable for preservative-free paints. For users, handling is extremely easy: the film seal can be removed in one piece without any effort, and the paint can be used immediately.

Recyclability
Due to the PP monomaterial, the buckets, plastic handles, and sealing lids are 100% technically recyclable and can be returned to the material cycle through the existing collection systems.

“We are delighted with the consistently positive feedback our customer has received so far from the test markets,” says Dirk Schenk, sales manager at Jokey. “The jointly developed sealing technology helps to further protect the product and stabilize the shelf life of the paint, offering maximum safety to end consumers, creating trust, and meeting the growing demands for sustainable packaging solutions.”

Meffert is also highly satisfied with the result: “Up to now, no solution for avoiding paint adhesion on lids has been able to prove itself 100% in practice,” says project manager Dr. Ronald Große, assistant to the board of directors for technology at Meffert.

“Thanks to the many years of expertise at Jokey, we have now been able to jointly develop this innovative solution for the market. We are the first paint manufacturer to seal dispersion paint buckets with a safety film. This means that we also comply with the stricter guidelines on the use of preservatives, as we now seal our containers with a technology from the even more tightly regulated food industry. This combination is unique in our industry.”

Jokey recently published its “Sustainability Course to 2030,” in which it aims to use at least 20% mechanically-recycled material up to 2025. Speaking at Packaging Innovations 2022, Dennis Lieth, the company’s sales director, explained to us why incorporating recycled plastic into non-food packaging is easier than food-grade packaging and how the company is trying to create loop systems with food customers to avoid recyclate contamination.

Edited by Joshua Poole