Downgauged Film keeps ingredients in place while in storage.
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With approximate 10% top web reduction and 20% bottom reduction, formable flexible packaging offers thermoforming and resistance to flex cracking, while maintaining clarity and peelability for opening. Coextruded top web keeps ingredients in place and is suited for packaging meats, boil-in-bag soups, rising-crust pizza, and other frozen food applications.Original Press Release:
Pechiney Plastic Packaging Announces Advancements in its FPA Award Winning Film
Downgauged Film Offers Cost Advantage With Same High Performance
CHICAGO, IL (March, 2003) - Pechiney Plastic Packaging, Inc. (PPPI), a global leader in value-added flexible packaging, introduces a downgauged version of its award winning pizza film. With an approximate 10% top web reduction and 20% bottom reduction, these new offerings will provide customers greater cost advantages while retaining the same excellent performance.
With the new downgauged structure, this enhanced film still offers customers the toughest, most formable flexible packaging. The film's resilient structure features excellent thermoforming and resistance to flex cracking, while maintaining the benefits of clarity and peelability for easy opening. The application of this technology is pending patent approval.
Erin Larson, Product Manager for Pechiney Plastic Packaging adds, "The coextruded top web provides a cost advantage for the manufacturer. The film runs efficiently on the equipment and forms a fantastic seal. In addition, consumers really value the easy-open peel and the clarity so that they can see what they're getting."
A clear example of how this patent pending technology offers producers of frozen foods package integrity is in the rising-crust pizza industry. Because frozen pizzas are stored vertically, ingredients can shift over time. In addition, loose cornmeal and sharp pizza toppings can pose an abrasion problem during distribution. PPPI's film offers the softest film that drapes over the pizza, holding the product tighter so that the toppings are not displaced during shipment and storage and are not able to puncture the package.
The film, which received an FPA award in 2002, has uses in a variety of food applications. The versatile film technology keeps ingredients in place, and is ideal for packaging meats, boil-in-bag soups, and other premium frozen food applications.
Pechiney Plastic Packaging's specialty frozen food division includes forming web products as well as films for hand-held entree's such as burritos, tacquitos, wraps and sandwiches featuring cold and heat-sealed ovenable PET structures with high quality graphics. PPPI offers a wide variety of packaging shapes, forms, and designs, including stand-up, pre-made, and other types of pouches. Its products are compatible with a variety of closures and provide effective barriers to oxygen, moisture, light, flavors, and chemicals. PPPI also offers flexographic, digital flexographic, and rotogravure solutions to differentiate product on the shelves.
For more than six decades, the businesses of Pechiney Plastic Packaging, Inc. have led the way to innovation in plastic packaging, primarily for the food, beverage, meat, dairy, health care, personal care, and specialty markets, as well as plastic bottles for the food and beverage markets. As a subsidiary of Pechiney Group, PPPI operates 38 flexible and bottle plants in the Americas, Europe, and Australia. For more information, contact Elfredia Parker at 1-866-704-2379 or visit www.pechineyplasticpackaging.com.
