TYPES OF PACKAGING PAPER

AN ASSIGNMENT

SUBMITTED BY

JAMES HELEN N.
S04/FST/2006/1133

HND II

DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

RUFUS GIWA POLYTECHNIC, OWO

COURSE: FOOD PACKAGING AND STORAGE

CODE: FST 414

DR. F. O. ADETUYI
Lecturer in Charge

SEPTEMBER, 2011
 QUESTION

Write extensively on the following types of packaging paper

i. Coated paper

ii. Kraft paper

iii. Sulphite paper

iv. Grease proof paper

v. Vegetable parchment paper

vi. Tissue paper

vii. Wet strength paper

COATED PAPER

This is a paper which has been coated by a component to impact

certain qualities to the paper including weight, surface gloss,

smoothness or reduced ink absorbency. Calcium carbonate is used to

coat paper for high quality printing used in packaging industry and in

magazines. The chalk or china clay is bound to the paper with

synthetic viscofiers such as styrene butadiene latexes and natural

organic binders such as starch. The coating formulating may also

contain chemical additives such as dispersants, resins, PE; to give

water resistance and wet strength to the paper, or to protect against

ultraviolet radiation. Other types of coating include:

i. Polyethylene or polyolefin extrusion coating

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 ii. Silicone and wax coating to make release liners

iii. Paper cups and photography paper, etc.

KRAFT PAPER

This is a paper produced from chemical pulp processed by the

Kraft process. It is also a paper produced on machines with moderate

machine speeds the raw materials is normally softwood pulp from the

Kraft process. Kraft paper can be while or brown depending on the

pulp. It is bleached or unbleached.

Qualities of Kraft paper

i. Normal Kraft paper is strong and relatively coarse. It has high

tensile strength. The grammage is normally from 40-135g/m2 .

ii. Sack kraft paper or just sack paper is a porous kraft paper with high

elasticity and high tear resistance designed for packaging products

with high demands for strength and durability.

iii. Absorbent kraft paper is made with controlled absorbency, i.e. a

high degree of porosity. It is made of clean low kappo hardwood.

Kraft paper and has to have a good uniformity and formation.

APPLICATION OF KRAFT PAPER

i. Kraft paper is used in paper grocery bags, multiwall sacks,

envelopes and other packaging.

ii. Kraft paper is a cheap material for lining particles boards.

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iii. The base paper for sand paper is normally kraft paper.

GREASE PROOF PAPER

This is a paper that is impermeable to oil or grease and is

normally used in cooking or for food packaging. Normally, grease

paper is produced by refining the paper stock and thus create a super

calendared to further improve the density creating a paper called

glassine.

VEGETABLE PARCHMENT PAPER

Genuine vegetable is a unique paper, totally natural, with unique

grease and heat resistance as well as release properties. It is mainly

used for food wrapping , baking, decorative laminates, tubes covers

and other specialities.

TISSUE PAPER

This is a light weight paper or light crepe paper. Tissue can be

made both from virgin and recycled paper pulp.

PROPERTIES OF TISSUE

Tissue paper is used to make huge rage of products with

different properties and quality demands. Key properties are strength,

absorbance, basic weight, thickness (bulk), brightness, stretch,

appearance and comfort.

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PRODUCTION OF TISSUE PAPER

Tissue paper is produced in a paper machine that has a single

large steam heated drying cylinder (yankee dryer) fitted with hot air

hood. The raw material is paper pulp. The cylinder is sprayed with

adhesives to make the paper stick.

APPLICATION OF TISSUE PAPER

Hygienic tissue paper is commonly used for facial tissue (paper

handkerchiefs), knapping, bathroom tissue and house hold towel.

Paper has been used for hygiene purpose for centuries, but tissue

paper as we kwon it today was not produced in USA before the mid

1940s. In Western Europe large scale industrial production stated in

the beginning of 1960s.

WET STRENGTH PAPER

Wet strength is a measure of how well the fibre web holds

together upon a force of rupture. Wet strength is routinely expressed

as the ratio of wet to dry tensile force at break.

APPLICATION OF WET STRENGTH

A wide range of paper materials are wet strengthened.

a. Tissue paper

b. Filter paper

c. Liquid packaging board

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 d. Paper bag

e. Paper chemicals

ENVIRONMENT CONSIDERATION OF WET STRENGTH PAPER

Recycling of wet strengthened paper requires higher intensity

reworking condition in the deinking process to break the fibre web.

Some wet strength papers are not considered recyclable.

SULPHITE PAPER

This sometime referred to as sulphite paper, two often elegant

and useful type of paper, has a number of uses. Here is some basic

information about the creation of sulphite paper as well as how the

finished product is used in several different ways.

Sulphite paper begins its life through the creating of what is

known as sulphite pulp. The process for creating sulphite pulp is fairly

easy wood pulp is treated with the use of peroxide or hydrochloride

and ran through an operation that yields a thick paper product that

has lost the natural hue of the wood pulp and began to take on a

lighter shade. Repeated application of the chemical compounds will

result in an even lighter shade, until the end product has taken on a

brilliant white appearance. From there, the sulphite paper can be

further processed to any thickness that is desired, depending on how

the end product is to be used.