Let it rain!

The Advantage Protect sack kraft paper meets the market requirements, with its durability and rain resistance, without the need for any coating, wax or plastic material.

Advantage Protect when used for pasted valve bags gives them a rain resistance for up to six hours and can defy water ingress for up to five full days when stored in damp conditions, making the paper sack suitable packaging for all types of weather.

Advantage Protect is available in white as well.

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Benefits

• High Tensile Energy Absorption ( TEA)
• Excellent runnability
• High wet Tensile Strength
• Protection against rain and splash water up to 6 hours according EN ISO 2875

 

End-use:

Advantage Protect is recommended to be used as an outer ply for pasted valve bags used to pack powdery products such as:

  • cement,
  • building materials,
  • chemicals.

Technical Specifications

Properties

 

Method

 

Typical values (please select the 2-10 most common grammages)

Basis Weight

g/m²

ISO 536

 

70

80

90

Tensile strength

kN/m

ISO 1924-3

md

cd

6,0

4,4

6,8

5,0

7,6

5,7

Tensile Index

Nm/g

ISO 1924-3

md

cd

86

63

85

63

84

63

Stretch at break

%

ISO 1924-3

md

cd

5.8

8.0

5.8

8.0

5.8

8.0

Tensile Energy Absorption (TEA)

J/m²

ISO 1924-3

md

cd

225

240

255

270

290

305

TEA Index

J/g

ISO 1924-3

md

cd

3.2

3.4

3.2

3.4

3.2

3.4

Tear Index

mN.m²/g

ISO 1974

md

cd

12.0

14.3

12.0

14.3

12.0

14,3

Air Resistance (Gurley)

s

ISO 5636-5

 

25

25

25

Cobb60

g/m²

ISO 535

 

21

21

21

Wet tensile strength

 

 

 

1.6

1.8

2.0

The table above shows typical values for certain basis weights.

Issued from 01.01.2021

Test conditions:
ISO 187 : 1990 (23°C ± 1 C/RH 50% ±2)