Retort Pouches
Four- and five-layer laminates that survive autoclave sterilization, hold an eighteen-month ambient shelf life and print like a premium bag.
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Flexible Packaging for Food Processors
Sauces, ready meals, proteins, pulses and prepared components — packaging specified against your process sheet, not against a catalogue photograph.
What this industry is really buying
Food processing is the category where a packaging mistake costs the most, because the pack has to survive a process before it ever survives a shelf. A sauce that is hot-filled at 88 °C, a stew that is retorted at 121 °C and a protein tray that is frozen to −18 °C are three completely different material problems wearing the same printed graphic.
That is why every quote we issue for a processor starts with the process sheet: fill temperature, sterilization or pasteurization profile, headspace, gas flush, target shelf life, distribution temperature and the machine the pack runs on. Five of those six answers determine the structure; the sixth determines whether it runs at speed.
We supply this sector as both rollstock and converted formats, because most processors run a mix: high-volume SKUs on a form-fill-seal line buying printed film by the roll, and smaller SKUs or new launches buying made pouches so no machine time is committed until the product proves itself.
What a food processing package has to get right
- Structures validated for retort, hot fill, freezing or modified atmosphere
- Seal integrity that survives the filler, the process and distribution
- Barrier specified to the real target shelf life, not to a round number
- Rollstock cut and marked for the exact FFS machine on the floor
- Food-contact declarations and technical data sheets with every quote
- Traceable lots with retains so a complaint can be investigated
Products
Packaging for food processing
The families this sector orders most often — and any of them can travel on the same purchase order.
Stand-Up Zipper Pouches
Doypack pouches with zipper, valve, window or spout, in high-barrier or recycle-ready mono-material structures, printed up to ten colours.
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Peelable Lidding Films
Printed peelable and weld-seal lidding for PP, PET, PS and PLA containers, die-cut or on reel, with anti-fog, high-barrier or reseal options.
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BOPP Films
Transparent, white, pearlized and metallized BOPP for flow-wrap, form-fill-seal, lamination and overwrap, printed up to ten colours.
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FAQ
Questions from food processing buyers
Line down or artwork due tomorrow?
Call (323) 395-2880 and ask for expedite. If the tooling exists, we can usually pull a run forward; if it does not, we will tell you honestly what the fastest real date is.
Yes. For any new structure we produce a pilot lot or a trial roll and, where the process is critical, we attend the trial. Discovering a seal window problem on a pilot lot is inconvenient; discovering it on a full production run is expensive.
Usually, and we will tell you honestly when the incumbent structure is over- or under-specified for what you actually do with it. Send us a sample and the process sheet and we will report the layer construction we recommend.
Certificate of analysis for the lot, food-contact compliance declarations for the film, ink, adhesive and sealant, technical data sheets and, where relevant, seal strength and bond strength results against your specification.
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Let's spec your packaging
Send us the product, the process and the volume. You get a structure proposal, a tooling cost and a lead time within 24 business hours.