Enhance your packaging with UPM barrier papers
UPM offers high-quality barrier papers that provide moisture and grease resistance, ensuring your products stay fresh and secure. Our solutions are recyclable, meeting your sustainability goals without compromising on performance.
Why choose UPM barrier papers?
UPM barrier papers offer the flexibility to be used as-is or co-created to meet specific end-use requirements, such as oxygen barrier properties. Explore the key features that make our barrier papers a trusted choice for your packaging.
Recyclable and food safe
Crafted from responsibly sourced fibres, our barrier papers are fully recyclable. They comply with rigorous food safety regulations, making them a reliable choice for food-safe packaging.
Grease and moisture barrier
Designed to protect against moisture and grease, UPM barrier papers keep products fresh and uncompromised. Through co-creation, these properties can be extended to include oxygen, aroma, and other specific needs.
Heat-sealable
A range of our barrier papers includes a range of options with an integrated heat-seal layer, providing a strong, reliable seal that maintains product quality.
Versatile printing options
Compatible with multiple printing methods, our papers allow for high-quality, precise designs that enhance packaging appeal.
* recyclable: according to CEPI/4EG Technical Recyclability Score (v. 2.0 Jan 2025) and PTS RH 021/97 Cat II
* food safe: comply with European (BfR) and U.S. (FDA) food safety standards
Barrier paper end-uses
Our sustainably produced papers that offer grease and moisture barriers are easy to convert to a wide range of high barrier packaging end-uses.
Chilled foods
Dry foods
Fresh foods
Sustainable office paper ream wrapping
View our range of barrier papers
UPM’s barrier papers are safe for direct food contact, free from fluorochemicals and recyclable in existing paper recycling stream. All are available with FSC™ and PEFC certification.
UPM Confidio™ Pro
UPM Confidio™
UPM Asendo™ Pro
UPM Asendo™
What we have achieved with our partners through co-creation
Discover how, together with our partners, we have co-created barrier paper solutions that meet their packaging goals. Each case study showcases the unique challenges faced and the innovative, collaborative solutions that brought their vision to life.
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Coated-one-side packaging papers
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Barrier base papers
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