100% Curbside Recyclable, sealable, printable ultra high barrier paper, designed to replace flexible plastic packaging.

  • Chips
  • Protein bar
  • Energy gel
  • Granola
  • Milk
  • Chips
  • Protein bar
  • Energy gel
  • Granola
  • Milk

Introducing a fully recyclable ultra high-barrier paper structure for the flexible packaging industry.

Barrier Performance

Moisture

<0.3 g/m2/day WVTR (38°C, 90% RH)

Oxygen

<1 cc/m2/day OTR (23°C, 50% RH)

Grease

Excellent resistance to grease and oils

85-95%, highest on the market

100% compatible with flexographic, gravure and digital printing

Excellent machinability on Horizontal and Vertical Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) packing lines with no compromise on speed, maintaining barrier performance post forming

Excellent sealability; available in both heat-seal and cold-seal versions

Ranging from 50 to 70 gsm

100% Curbside recyclable in the standard paper recycling stream

Our Barrier Technology

water-based dispersion coatings on high performance paper

A highly engineered paper designed to run on high speed flow wrap packaging equipment.

We use water-based dispersion coatings to prime, protect and provide sealability to our paper. They are ultra-thin, invisible, and dissolve during recycling — keeping the paper fully recyclable and compostable.

  • Water-based dispersion coatings
  • High performance paper
  • Nfinite SALD barrier coating

Hundreds of layersby Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition

SALD Barrier Science in Two Gases

Metal precursor gas
Reactant gas

Our ultra-high barrier coating is created through a unique Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD) process using two simple gases: a metal source and a reactant, separated by nitrogen. These gases react in sequence, forming hundreds of mineral layers only a few atoms thick. The result is an invisible coating that gives paper the same protective performance as plastic, without changing its look or feel.

>1000x

Thinner than a human hair

Open Air

Works at normal atmospheric pressure, in open air

High speed roll-to-roll

Roll-to-roll coating at 100-300 meters/minute

Our Impact

A 40% lower carbon footprint 2 trillion fewer plastic packages polluting the environment

Our High Barrier Paper Manufacturing Plant, scaling sustainable packaging in North America

"Nfinite shares our commitment to creating a circular economy, and we look forward to continuing to work with them to develop innovative ways to deliver more sustainable packaging solutions."
Frank LehmannVice President Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation of Amcor
"PepsiCo R&D started working with the Nfinite team while they were at the University of Waterloo, and in the short span of two years, they have made rapid progress from lab-scale technology to actual roll-to-roll coating implementation at different scales."
Sridevi Narayan-SarathyTechnical Director / R&D Senior Fellow at PepsiCo
"Amcor is excited to be both an early-stage investor and a strategic collaboration partner to Nfinite on this ground breaking project."
Michael HartmanSenior Fellow, Emerging Material/Process Development at Amcor
"We’re collaborating with partners like Nfinite to develop the next generation of recyclable and compostable flexible packaging with ultra-thin barrier coatings that meet the performance needs of our broad portfolio."
Mark NewmanHead of Packaging, Advanced Materials at Unilever
FAQ

Here are the essentials about Nfinite paper, how it works, and how it replaces plastic.

We sell semi-finished, ultra-high barrier paper in 1-meter-wide rolls that are printable, sealable, and ready for downstream converting.

No, Nfinite paper doesn’t use any lamination. It looks, feels, and performs like real paper without the need for a plastic film.

Nfinite paper is designed to run as a drop-in replacement on most high speed horizontal and vertical form-fill-seal (FFS) packing lines.

No. Nfinite paper is not metallized and does not contain any metal.
We use ultra-thin layers of a ceramic oxide, a naturally occurring, food safe, inert material that is completely non-metallic.
Because it is non-metal and so thin, it remains fully compatible with standard paper recycling streams.

Nfinite paper looks and feels just like paper!
Our coating is fully transparent, so it doesn’t have a metallic appearance on the inside.

OurNews

Proven Leaders in ALD

Nfinite is a spin-out from the Functional Nanomaterials Lab at the University of Waterloo (Canada), led by Dr. Kevin Musselman, a global pioneer in Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD).

Over the past 20 years, Dr. Musselman has advanced SALD through dozens of peer-reviewed publications, building the scientific foundation that makes Nfinite unique: a company rooted in rigorous academic research, now bringing proven nanotechnology out of the lab and into industrial packaging applications.