Melodea MelOx NGen and VBseal Barrier Coatings

Melodea develops water-based barrier coatings for flexible packaging, serving packaging manufacturers and brand owners in the consumer goods industry. Its coatings are designed as plastic-free, PFAS-free and BPA-free alternatives to EVOH, AlOx and aluminium foil, which make flexible packs hard to recycle.

MelOx NGen provides an ultra-high oxygen barrier and VBseal a high water vapour barrier, applied to paper or to mono-material plastic films. Melodea also offers MeloPack, ready-to-fill packaging produced by its in-house converter in four structures: paper with MelOx NGen and VBseal, retortable easy-peel BOPP, MDOPE with LDPE, and easy-peel PET. Target applications include dry powders, coffee and nuts, dairy and butter, snacks and pet food, ready meals and tea, as well as pharmaceutical and cosmetic packaging.

• MelOx NGen: water-based coating giving an ultra-high oxygen barrier.
• VBseal: coating that provides a high water vapour barrier and sealing.
• Paper solutions: recyclable, repulpable barrier paper replacing aluminium laminates.
• Plastic solutions: mono-material BOPP, MDOPE and PET structures with high barrier.
• MeloPack: ready-to-fill pouches and films from an in-house converter.
• Testing and development center: barrier testing and trials for brand projects.

Vietnamese coffee, cashew and pepper exporters can switch from aluminium laminates to recyclable high-barrier paper or mono-material pouches for EU buyers. Flexible packaging converters can license or source barrier coatings for their own lines. Snack and pet food producers can test mono-material structures to meet retailer recyclability requirements.

Brands can replace aluminium foil and multi-material laminates with mono-material paper or plastic that the company describes as 100% recyclable, with the paper version repulpable. MeloPack is presented as food-contact approved and ready for the EU PPWR deadline of August 2026. Ready-to-fill packs have a lead time of about 30 days, and plastic structures are priced from 6 EUR per kg.

The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and PFAS restrictions are forcing food and consumer goods exporters to redesign multi-layer flexible packs for recyclability. Asian converters supplying European brands, including in Vietnam, need high-barrier mono-material solutions that run on existing coating and lamination lines.

Led by CEO Dr. Shaul Lapidot, with co-founder Prof. Oded Shoseyov on the board and Albert Douer as chairman. Signed an exclusive distribution agreement with R&F Chemical for South Korea in November 2023. Exhibited at interpack 2026 in Düsseldorf and won the Global Recognition Award in 2024.