Sun Chemical, Parsippany, N.J., USA, will be honored with a Frost & Sullivan Award for its SunBar® (Aerobloc) oxygen barrier coatings during Frost & Sullivan's Excellence in Best Practices Awards Gala on Jan. 11, 2017 at the San Diego (California) Marriott La Jolla.

   

Frost & Sullivan awards recognize companies, strategies, processes, and executives that achieve world-class performance within their industries. Sun Chemical's SunBar (Aerobloc) oxygen barrier coatings were chosen based on the product's benefit to customers and its impact on the industry.

SunBar (Aerobloc) offers converters cost effective, durable, sustainable films that support lighter-weight packaging trends by creating a homogenous and flexible gas barrier layer that can be easily overprinted with inks and laminated to a variety of secondary films. SunBar (Aerobloc) is a cost-effective, compostable, chlorine- and metal-free alternative.

"SunBar (Aerobloc) is a technically advanced, next-generation product, which provides a comprehensive range of features such as easy handling, flexographic-printing friendly, and superior barrier performance to the products," said Arun Ramesh, Industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "The product line of SunBar (Aerobloc) encompasses all of the above required attributes that customers look for in their product and provides cost saving opportunities."

Sun chemical recently entered into a partnership with acpo ltd., a premier coater of flexible films, to meet the growing demand for high barrier transparent packaging. Sun Chemical supplies its SunBar (Aerobloc) oxygen barrier coating to acpo ltd., to coat and supply various films to flexible packaging converters. Since acpo ltd. specializes in coating thin films with state of the art equipment, converters will have alternative barrier films, at an economical price, that offer improved barrier properties without needing to make capital investments in a coating unit.

Dr. Philippe Schottland, global director of Sun Chemical’s Functional Materials Technology, will accept the award at the 2017 Excellence in Best Practices Award Gala.

"This recognition from Frost & Sullivan is another tribute to the amazing work that Sun Chemical's research and development team puts into developing new products for the market that have a lasting impact on our customers," Schottland said. "SunBar (Aerobloc) oxygen barrier coatings fulfill needs that meet many brand owner requirements from food safety and shelf life extension to packaging structures lightweighting."

Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC group, is a producer of printing inks, coatings, and supplies, pigments, polymers, liquid compounds, solid compounds, and application materials. Together with DIC, Sun Chemical has annual sales of more than $7.5 billion and more than 20,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Sun Chemical Corp. is a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Group Coöperatief U.A., the Netherlands.