Food and Beverage Labeling

H.B. Fuller is listening to market trends in the beverage industry and understands the industry’s greater focus on improved bottle recyclability and bottle reusability.

In our leading laboratories, H.B. Fuller has developed adhesives to support these trends and help our customers achieve their productivity and sustainability goals. H.B. Fuller sustainable beverage labeling adhesives can be used to adhere labels to one-way and returnable PET and glass bottles for carbonated soft drinks, wine, liquor, beer, spirits, and juice. With outstanding all-around product performance, our products will provide greater uptime, reduced bottle washer costs, and lower water usage due to easy cleanup. Our technical experts also work on the beverage plant operations requirements for efficient palletizing solutions. Improve your operation with stable, clean and low material waste with H.B. Fuller’s adhesives solutions.

How H.B. Fuller adapts to market trends

• End-consumers are persuaded by appearance and strong marketing initiatives. H.B. Fuller has a range of hot melt and water-based adhesives that work across multiple substrates.
• Increasing the speed of machines enables faster production. Our expertise will help customers navigate to their desired speed. H.B. Fuller’s clean-running adhesives result in greater uptime for the machines.
• A popular trend for craft beer brands is to use social media marketing to increase awareness. H.B. Fuller’s effective wash-off process for returnable bottles meets the sustainable practices that many craft beer drinkers are looking for in a product. Additionally, our global supply chain network helps ensure consistent supply, unlike small regional adhesive companies. 
• Convenience is another trend that consumers are seeking in beverage packaging. Smaller, easy-to-carry, easy-to-open, and sustainable packaging is desired by consumers. H.B. Fuller’s multipack bundling solutions for bottles and cans of beverages offer more convenience for consumers, while delivering a sustainable choice: using less material and waste. Talk with our beverage experts and learn how our smart secondary and tertiary sustainable packaging solutions can be suitable for your product and brand
• H.B. Fuller has palletizing adhesive solutions to deliver to this market demand and support the beverage industry to achieve their sustainable targets while improving its operations. 

H.B. Fuller sustainable beverage labeling adhesive performance benefits

Our beverage product line is designed to enable circular packaging by labeling more bottles with less.

• Efficient in-line performance increases uptime and reduces adhesive consumption.
• Superior machinability and cleanability over competing products
• Reduced water usage as well as caustic solution in the wash-off process for returnable bottles can reduce carbon footprint 

It offers superior labeling performance to suit your application needs.

• In-use label performance to protect the appearance and brand integrity of the product.
• Strong ice water resistance and condensation resistance for select products.
• High performance for slow to fast moving production lines.
• These benefits, performing simultaneously, are what set our sustainable beverage labeling adhesive apart from other products available on the market.

PET Beverage Labeling

Saving time, improving quality, preserving brand integrity, saving water, and meeting productivity and sustainability goals are all reasons why H.B. Fuller sustainable beverage labeling products are unique. Our adhesives aim to provide solutions that create a more circular economy for the beverage industry. H.B. Fuller is transforming labeling adhesives to meet new sustainability standards. Several of our products are PETCYCLE approved for efficient bottle recyclability.

A World of Limitless Labeling for Glass Bottles

H.B. Fuller sustainable products can meet your labeling needs with a range of high-performance adhesives that create labeling design freedom, production agility and confidence in your brand. H.B. Fuller’s wide range of labeling adhesives proves there are no limits. Wherever your business is in the world, we can support your labeling requirements. We have a strong technical partnership with our customers, so whether you go through new designs or production changes, we will be there to assist you quickly and safely.

Food Labeling

Limitless labeling possibilities ... Plastic or paper labels are added to bottles, jars, cans, and containers of all shapes and sizes, and are made of plastic (often PET), glass, or metal. H.B. Fuller®, Swift®tak, and Clarity® labeling adhesives are formulated to give you the greatest freedom. Freedom to deliver design innovation, accelerate production, and differentiate your brand with an impressive performance in use. Based on the label and container properties, water-based or hot melt adhesives can be used to affix the label to the container. H.B. Fuller offers a full range of labeling adhesives that deliver excellent performance for all aspects of the container’s useful life.

Multipack Bundling

Since 2015, H.B. Fuller has been a key partner in developing innovative adhesive solutions that fit the needs of the brand owner and the consumer. Learn about our multipack bundling solutions for bottles, containers, food cans or aseptic cartons, which can offer more convenience for consumers, while using less material and creating less waste. 

Palletizing

Our technical experts work on customer plant operation requirements about efficient solutions for palletizing. Learn how to reduce material waste with H.B. Fuller’s adhesives solutions.