Barrier materials and plastic barrier packaging
Release time:
2024-12-23
"How to Stay Fresh Longer"
Changing consumer habits, combined with technological innovation, barrier technology has opened up a new range of applications for plastic packaging, becoming an important choice for products that need a long shelf life at room temperature. With plastic packaging solutions, the increased demand for quick ready meals or snacks with fresh fruit can be successfully achieved.
Making homemade dishes or preparing fresh fruit requires the purchase of individual ingredients and ingredients, and the preparation process is time-consuming and laborious, so convenience foods are becoming more and more attractive in modern life. Barrier packaging strongly supports this trend. Dishes served in microwavable packages are growing in popularity, and eating them hot is a victory for convenience.
Compared with glass and metal, plastic has a decisive advantage. They are not easy to break, have no sharp edges, are highly flexible and practical, are user friendly, provide divisible packaging of multiple individual parts, are light weight, and are ideal for microwave heating.
These advantages are not only beneficial to consumers, but also to manufacturers. Simple sterilization of ready-to-eat foods, precise cooking times and temperatures, and extended shelf life at room temperature are essential to ensure consistent product quality. The light weight and stackability of plastic packaging provides important logistical advantages, with higher quantities per pallet that can be packed, resulting in significant cost reductions and reduced carbon emissions during transportation.
Effective packaging design is one of the key factors in successfully launching products in a competitive market, and the rich creative possibilities of plastics, including different shapes and colors as well as transparency, help build brand image and appeal.
A good barrier solution is to combine a different polymer (such as PP, which has excellent water resistance) with EVOH, which is highly resistant to oxygen. The final packaging protects the product from moisture and oxygen, and the addition of other components with oxygen binding can effectively resist oxygen intrusion and further enhance the durability of the packaging. In this way, the need for functionally-optimized packaging solutions is met, combining perfect product integrity with existing consumer appeal.
The advantages of barrier packaging are directly reflected in the following facts:
· High temperature processing; · Extended shelf life; Convenient consumption; · Attractive design;
Previous Page
Next Page
Previous Page
Next Page
