7 Types of Plastic Used in Food Packaging

7 Types of Plastic Used in Food Packaging

24 Mar 2023
Komal Sharma
7 Types of Plastic Used in Food Packaging

All of us interact with plastics, whether you’re cracking open a fresh bag of potato chips or diving into a crisply wrapped bushel of homemade chocolate chip cookies. Manufacturers use plastics to package each neatly wrapped food item. This is a wonderful thing!

After all, plastics ensure fresh ingredients stay well-preserved. They also protect our favorite products from contamination. Explore some of the different types of plastics commonly used in food packaging. Moreover, discover just how prominent these plastics are in our daily lives.

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Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Packaging Bags

24 Mar 2023
Komal Sharma

Every spring, homeowners rush to the hardware store to get fertilizer bags to put in their gardens and around their homes.  Before those bags make it to the customers, there are a lot of different steps and hands it has to pass through.  And if you are the fertilizer supplier, you want to ensure that it makes it there in one piece.  That is why your bag sealing is so important and why you need to have a reliable machine in your production line.

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A New Technology Increases Sterility Assurance in Parenteral Manufacturing

24 Mar 2023
Aditya Panwar

Pulsed light decontamination sterilizes the outside of ready-to-use (RTU) tubs containing syringes, vials, or cartridges before they are introduced into an isolator-based sterile filling line. The innovative technology uses a high-intensity broad-spectrum pulsed light to sterilize the surface of the RTU tubs. The decontamination chamber, built by Steriline, involves an isolator-based, highly sophisticated robot arm that picks up tubs and presents each character to the pulsed light generator, produced by Claranor.

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CLOSURE SEALS: CUSTOM-FIT SOLUTIONS FOR ANY REQUIREMENT

24 Mar 2023
Aditya Panwar

Closure seals for pharmaceutical packaging pose an important initial hurdle to counterfeiters. The more precisely the seal’s security technologies are adapted to the respective threat scenario, the better the seal will perform its intended purpose. Therefore, Schreiner MediPharm, supported by the Schreiner ProSecure competence center specializing in security technologies, develops customized sealing solutions.

Preservation & Packing of Tender Coconut Water

24 Mar 2023
Komal Sharma

Coconut water refers to the liquid endosperm of a tender coconut at an age of approximately 9 months from the time of pollination, the period before the solid endosperm or white meat forms. It is a pure and nutritious beverage in its natural state. The coconut husk is an excellent package for water which contains sugars, minerals, amino acids, and vitamins. Tender coconut water is a natural source of electrolytes, minerals, vitamins, complex carbohydrates, Amino acids, and other nutrients.

iD Fresh’s innovative coconut packaging

24 Mar 2023
Komal Sharma

In an effort to bring sustainable solutions to its products, Bengaluru-based iD Fresh Food has launched its Smart Sip Tender Coconut and Grated Coconut in rather innovative and eco-friendly packaging – a coconut shell.

PC Musthafa, CEO and co-founder of iD Fresh Food said, “Our 2020 vision is to go green. As a consumer-centric company committed to preserving the tradition of Indian cooking with healthy and fresh ingredients, we are constantly looking for ways to reduce the use of plastic in our product packaging.”

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Sporting Kansas City teams up with Huhtamaki to make Children’s Mercy Park Zero Waste

24 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

The company’s sports partnership in North America features naming rights to the Huhtamaki Shield Club at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City and community impact initiatives for the region through support of Sporting Sustainability and The Victory Project. Together with Sporting Kansas City, Huhtamaki is committed to reducing the stadium’s environmental footprint with the goal of zero waste by 2027.

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Tata Steel's push to reinforce its circular economy credentials

24 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

One of the most widely recycled packaging materials is steel, which can be used over and over again without losing its properties.

Globally, the recycling rate is 83% but it’s up to 90% in some countries. Even so, increasing the recycling rate to 95% in countries (most likely in the industrialised world) where steel stocks aren’t growing would cut the need for virgin steel production by two-thirds and carbon emissions by a similar amount, according to an analysis for the Energy Transitions Commission.

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Recyclable flowpack MonoFlow(re) saves 70% of plastic

23 Mar 2023
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Feneberg Lebensmittel GmbH, a successful retail chain from Southern Germany, demonstrates in an impressing manner the opportunities that arise from questioning existing concepts and breaking new ground. This family business, based in the Allgäu region of Germany, now uses an innovative packaging solution by Schur Flexibles for its self-service minced meat products by the Feneberg in-house butcher’s: the recyclable and sustainable flow-wrap film MonoFlowre . The results have been impressive: By switching from tray to flow wrap, the two companies have managed to save 70% of plastic.

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