Why do we need Barrier Packaging?

While barrier packaging technology may not always be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about plastic packaging, its importance cannot be overlooked. Properly protecting your products with the right plastic packaging requires an effective barrier to preserve product quality and ensure shelf life, while reducing leachables from the packaging. 

What is Barrier Packaging?

Barrier packaging is critical in protecting the environment and human health by preventing permeation of container contents through evaporative emissions.

Barrier technology provides barrier protection to packaging, which effectively seals in volatile and other formulation chemistries, to minimize or prevent the risk of environmental release due to permeation.

Why is Barrier Packaging Important?

Barrier protection is essential for packaging to prevent permeation of contents through the packaging to the environment and preserve product quality. The consequences of not using barrier packaging are deterioration of quality, safety risks, nonconformity with the law, reduced shelf life, and spoiled or degraded products, all of which can lead to financial losses and distrust amongst end users.

What Products Need Barrier Packaging?

From healthcare to industrial and agricultural chemicals, from consumer products to transportation chemicals, any product that contains solvents or organic molecules and is sensitive to oxygen, moisture, light, permeation, scalping, or other environmental factors typically requires barrier packaging. Without an effective barrier, products would struggle to maintain their quality and shelf life. 

Benefits of Barrier Packaging

• Stops ingredient loss or scalping
• Extends shelf life
• Maintains product quality
• Ensures compliance

Enkase, the Most Reliable Barrier Technology

Enkase™ is the brand name for Inhance Technologies’ robust barrier packaging barrier, created through our proprietary fluorination technology. 

For more than 40 years, Enkase barrier packaging has been providing protection against permeation of formulation ingredients stored in polyolefin containers, ensuring appearance, quality, safety, and durability. Enkase offers the most versatile and adaptable packaging solution, regardless of shape, size, or production quantities. 

While there are few barrier options, Enkase remains at the forefront of providing reliable, high-performance barrier packaging solutions that prioritize safety and environmental responsibility. Enkase is vital to safely contain some of the most aggressive chemicals critical to society. There are no readily available alternative barrier technologies that can meet the technical specifications, performance attributes, sustainability benefits, reliability and cost efficiencies offered by Enkase.

Other benefits of Enkase include:

• Design flexibility - any polyolefin, any size, any shape, and small or large quantities
• Guaranteed 100% batch quality inspection
• Treatment processes are compliant with FDA regulation 21CFR 177.1615 requirements
• Packaging is compliant with applicable REACH regulations
• Contributes to the circular economy
• Minimizes carbon footprint
  

Enkase protects your brand whether it’s a 1 ml or 1,000+ liter container. Our flexible manufacturing process efficiently caters to short runs - as small as a pallet – as well as to large production volumes, while maintaining superior performance. 

Download our Enkase Ebook or contact us to elevate your packaging solutions today.