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Influence of base sheet properties on barrier coating performance, TAPPI Journal November 2025
ABSTRACT: Paper packaging offers a sustainable alternative to standard plastic-based materials, particularly for food and beverage applications. With reduced fiber treatment options like fluorochemicals, uncoated base stock often provides little-to-no effective barrier against liquid water, oil/grease, or moisture transmission. Despite the lack of natural barrier performance, base sheet properties can significantly influence the efficiency of applied waterbased barrier coatings. In this study, various base stock properties, such as caliper, porosity, roughness, and ash content, are reported to influence the barrier performance of styrene-acrylic and a copolymer of styrene-butadiene/styrene-acrylate based barrier coatings. These findings will help paper and board producers design better, more cost-effective, purposebuilt substrates for barrier applications in the packaging industry.
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Designing paper and board barrier constructions for food contact applications, TAPPI Journal November 2025
ABSTRACT: This study examines the effect of multiple factors on barrier performance for purpose-built paper and paperboard constructions produced on an industrial pilot coater machine. Impacts from precoat latex chemistry, application method (flooded nip with bevel blade, jet with bevel blade, and pre-metered film coater, laboratory rod drawdown) and precoating calendering were studied in relation to resulting porosity, roughness, and barrier (liquid water, moisture, and oil). Results reveal a complex interaction between controllable and uncontrollable factors, offering insight for designing advanced barrier coatings on cellulosic substrates.
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Three-Dimensional Observation of Coated Paper by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope, TAPPI JOURNAL, February 2006, Vol. 5(2) (393 KB)
Three-Dimensional Observation of Coated Paper by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope, TAPPI JOURNAL, February 2006, Vol. 5(2) (393 KB)
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A Low-Temperature, Black Liquor Gasifier Model for Use in WinGEMS, TAPPI JOURNAL, February 2006, Vol. 5(2) (242 KB)
A Low-Temperature, Black Liquor Gasifier Model for Use in WinGEMS, TAPPI JOURNAL, February 2006, Vol. 5(2) (242 KB)
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Soot blower lance tube corrosion in recovery boilers, TAPPI JOURNAL, January 2006, Vol. 5(1) (436 KB)
Soot blower lance tube corrosion in recovery boilers, TAPPI JOURNAL, January 2006, Vol. 5(1) (436 KB)
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The applicability of natural colorants in papermaking, TAPPI
The applicability of natural colorants in papermaking, TAPPI JOURNAL, July 2006, Vol. 5(7)
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Characterizing the Pore Structures of Paper Coatings with Scanning Probe Microscopy, TAPPI JOURNAL, March 2006, Vol. 5(3) (470KB)
Characterizing the Pore Structures of Paper Coatings with Scanning Probe Microscopy, TAPPI JOURNAL, March 2006, Vol. 5(3) (470KB)
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Purification of Peroxide-Bleached TMP Waterby Dissolved Air
Purification of Peroxide-Bleached TMP Waterby Dissolved Air Flotation, TAPPI JOURNAL, May 2006, Vol. 5(5) (395 KB)
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Characterizing Liquid-Vapor Phase Change Phenomena in Impuls
Characterizing Liquid-Vapor Phase Change Phenomena in Impulse Technology With Resistivity Probes, TAPPI JOURNAL, May 2006, Vol. 5(5) (280 KB)
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Innovations in forming earn brian attwood TAPPI's 2000 Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal, TAPPI JOURNAL, February 2000, Vol. 83(2)
Innovations in forming earn brian attwood TAPPI's 2000 Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal, TAPPI JOURNAL, February 2000, Vol. 83(2)