NeoCryl™ BT-207 is a new waterborne acrylic resin for bottle labeling adhesive applications available from DSM Coating Resins.


NeoCryl™ BT-207 is a new waterborne acrylic resin for bottle labeling adhesive applications available from DSM Coating Resins. This resin is especially designed for adhesives to be used in high-speed and cold-fill bottle labeling.

For a long time, adhesive formulators have been searching for synthetic resins for bottle labeling applications in order to relieve supply constraints and performance variations of the traditional solution – casein. Neocryl BT-207 has closed the performance gap, offering adhesive formulators an improved alternative to natural casein.

NeoCryl BT-207 offers excellent wet tack, glass adhesion and resolubility features – comparable to optimal casein performance. In addition, being a synthetic resin with consistent quality, it provides the adhesive manufacturer the benefit of robust production, eliminating the need for batch-to-batch adjustments as often is the case with today’s solutions. NeoCryl BT-207 has very consistent and stable viscosity across the typical alkaline range of adhesive application and therefore requires less online viscosity adjustments during the production process. As a result of these product attributes, it works extremely well in high-speed bottle labeling applications.

Furthermore, NeoCryl BT-207 is designed for cold-fill labeling as it has excellent hypercondensation resistance, which results in good label application to moist bottle surfaces. The bottles labeled with an adhesive based on NeoCryl BT-207 are also fully suitable for recycling purposes, as the resin is resoluble in caustic environments for easy label removal. Due to its characteristics, NeoCryl BT-207 is ideally designed for high-end glass labeling applications, like cold-fill beer bottle labeling, and can also be used for other applications including the labeling of wine and champagne bottles as well as various jars.

NeoCryl BT-207 has been developed by DSM in line with its existing sustainable solutions for the adhesives industry. It is a new offering that has been added to the existing range of waterborne bottle labeling adhesives. The product is now available in the market via DSM and its distributors.