Food
PACK AGING IN THE FOOD SEG MEN T
For the ultimate flavour experience
Food PACK AGING SOLU TIONS
Packaging for gourmets
Packaging for food challenges our ingenuity. Foods are highly sensitive products that challenge our commitment to optimized packaging day after day, always in an ongoing dialogue with our customers. Changing lifestyles and greater mobility have prompted retailers to market more and more convenience products. In the past years, the demand for convenience products has grown significantly, both in the commercial and household environments; consumers expect extended shelf lives without any loss of flavour and quality. To cover the growing demand for products of this type, we deploy ten pouching machines to produce up to 700 million sidesealed, stand-up, five-seam, or gusset bags per year. In the food segment, a distinction is made between wet-product and dry-product packaging. Wet goods such as sauerkraut, soups, sauces or hash browns require extremely high durability to withstand hot filling with subsequent pasteurization or retorting. Good laminate adhesion, odourlessness, and strict
hygiene standards are key factors in the food sector, but the development of optimized packaging must also focus on presentation as well as protection during handling and storage. In brief: ■ Packaging for wet and dry products. ■ Ecological and economical in production and across entire lifecycle. ■ Durability without flavour and quality losses. ■ User-friendliness with starter notches, ziplock closures, etc. ■ Compliance with strict hygiene standards in production, handling, and storage of pouches or rollstock. ■ Production volume: 700 million pouches per year. ■ Appealing presentation at the point of sale.
Q UA LIT Y M A N AGEMEN T
Success is our driving force! Packaging is our passion. So we never rest and keep working on the further optimization of our products. According to the motto “as much as necessary, as perfect as possible” Every day, the specialists in our development department are at work to find new and better packaging solutions precisely tailored to the packaging content and consumer expectations. To assure that our solutions interact seamlessly with all processes to which they are exposed, we tailor them to the product and to the stress profile, for instance on the customer’s filling and/or pouch sealing line. We accompany each new packaging solution until it is integrated in our customers’ production environments and thoroughly test the usually complex composites on their machines. It is on the machine that application technology factors such as sliding properties or sealability are crucial.
Quality assurance Our laboratories regularly test new materials to determine their suitability for our composites and conversion products. Our test equipment: ■ Tensile testing units for determining interlayer adhesion and sliding properties. ■ O2D units for determining oxygen permeability. ■ Infrared spectrophotometer for identifying substances. ■ Microscopes for determining layer structures. ■ Gas chromatograph (GC) for determining residual solvent concentrations. ■ And much more.
We are certified Quality ISO 9001 since 1994 Hygiene BRC/IOP since 1999 Environmental protection Energy certificate CO2 reduced. Member of Energie-Agentur der Wirtschaft (EnAW) since 2003.
«I am the brother, so to speak, of the ziplocked or laser-perforated stand-up pouch. My special feature is the starter notch. It‘s utterly convenient.» Stand-up pouch with starter notch and laser perforation
«People always love me, I‘m the classic. My measurements are very popular. And I guarantee perfect opacity for dry and wet products. After I have been opened, it‘s very easy to reseal me again.»
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