Intercontinental Great Brands LLC

John Dill Halka

Vincent Daniel McGinniss

Panagiotis Kinigakis

Kenneth C Pokusa

David C Masterson

Paul Anthony Zerfas

Michael Clingerman

Colleen Marie Henry

Jeffrey Boyce

Kerri Kim Clark

A UV-curable pressure sensitive adhesive, a package having an adhesive-based reclosable fastener including the pressure sensitive adhesive, and a method of forming the package is described herein. The package includes a cavity and opposing panels configured to cover an opening to the cavity. The reclosable fastener is a UV-cured pressure sensitive adhesive comprised of one or more UV-curable acrylic oligomers, one or more tack control components, and, optionally, an elastomeric material. An adhesive component ratio defines an effective ratio made up of the weight percent of the UV-curable acrylic oligomer relative to the sum of the weight percents of the tack control component and elastomeric component, where the ratio provides a fastener with a first peel adhesion and subsequent peel adhesions effective to form the adhesive-based fastener into a reclosable fastener.

Reclosable fasteners, packages having reclosable fasteners, and methods for creating reclosable fasteners

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Newton, NJ, United States of America

John Dill Halka