Printpack strives to meet our customers where they are in today’s ever-changing fresh produce market.
Printpack offers a full line flexible and rigid fresh produce packaging solutions that are helping retailers and brand owners maximize produce freshness by extending shelf life, create instant brand recognition through innovative graphics and packaging formats, and achieve immediate sustainability gains. Our solutions include rollstock, lidstock, pre-made bags, bag liners, bulk liners, and specialty rigid containers which can be tailored to any kind of produce to maintain quality and freshness.
Quality packaging for produce is essential for leading brands to protect their product from environmental factors such as cosmetic blemishes. With our quality produce packaging, shelf life can be extended while reducing food waste. We offer reputable enhancement options to our produce packaging including traceability from QR codes, enhanced visual appearance, brand recognition and on-the-go packaging formats for convenience.
Our Produce Packaging Features:
• Anti-fog films /coatings
• Reclose options
• Handles for portability
• Oxygen Transmission Rate (OTR) controlled structures
• Microwaveable structures
• Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP)
MAP used for produce involves a precise matching of the packaging material’s gas transmission rates with the respiration rate of each specific type of produce. This can prevent reactions which cause ill odors, off flavors, and slimy product. MAP extends shelf life and helps maintain freshness.
OTR values are used to compare the relative oxygen barrier capabilities of packaging films. OTR controlled structures run from 60 OTR to 300 OTR. Requirements used to calculate OTR include package size, produce type/mixes, and shelf life studies.
Many fruit and vegetable applications are microperforated, which manages aging. Microperforation can be customized to match the respiration level of the fruits and vegetables that require packaging. Microperforation allows for higher respiration rates than are possible with film technology alone. This ensures that the quality and freshness of your fresh cut produce are retained longer.
Printpack develops innovative produce packaging solutions and sustainable options that deliver a distinct advantage at the shelf, strengthen brand identity in the minds of consumers and help brand owners optimize speed-to-market strategies. Packaging innovation plays a critical role in influencing the way consumers value, choose, and use products.
• High-impact graphics
• Print finishes include matte and gloss
• Premium clear high gloss options for retail
• Multiple structure options available
• Focused factory and customer service for ream wrap production
• Internal graphic services
With our new Printpack Preserve™ sustainable packaging portfolio, we offer brands eco-friendly produce packaging solutions that are recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Our Preserve™ PE and Preserve™ PE-OTR for produce is our sustainable alternative to non-recyclable breathable laminated films.
• Broad range of modified-atmosphere packaging attained through film
• Technology and microperforation
• Customizable transmission rates based on each product’s natural respiration chemistry
• Available in rollstock, lidstock, and pre-made bags
• Microwaveable and steaming options for consumer convenience
• Re-close options for multi-serve packs
• Registered anti-fog available for outstanding product visibility
• Now available with easy-open, peelable seal
• Offsets virgin plastic to meet
corporate goals and regulatory requirements for virgin plastic reduction
• Lowers packaging carbon footprint
• Use of content made from recycled
plastics creates demand for plastics circularity
• Source of content include post-consumer and post-industrial plastics that are mechanically recycled
• Source of content include post-consumer and post-industrial plastics that are recycled by advanced recycling processes, such as pyrolysis (known as “Certified Circular Content”)
• Plastics made from renewable
feedstock sources such as used cooking oil (UCO) and technical corn oil (TCO) (known as “Certified Renewable Content”)
• Options available for PE, PP, and PET
• Use of Certified Circular and Certified Renewable content requires no packaging formulation changes, and there is no regulatory or food safety risk because the plastic material is chemically indiscernible from virgin plastic
• Preserve P+ for Produce is pre-qualified by How2Recycle® for in store drop-off recycling
• All polyethylene laminated film
• Pre-qualified for the consumer-facing on-pack How2Recycle® logo
• Precise microperforation technology for breathability
• Registered anti-fog available for outstanding product visibility
• Microwaveable and steaming options for consumer convenience
• No compromises in manufacturing performance, protect protection or shelf life
• Quick set-up time
• Compliant with bagging equipment
• Digital printing options also available including extended Gamut printing
• Available for commercial orders
Printpack leads the packaging industry in manufacturing capabilities while delivering a best-in-class customer experience. We are committed to Preserving and Enhancing People’s Lives through sustainability, efficient processes, and providing quality products to our customers and consumers.
Our vertically integrated manufacturing approach includes flexographic, rotogravure, and digital printing, along with extrusion and adhesive lamination capabilities.
Our specialty rigid packaging includes barrier co-extrusion and thermoforming capabilities.
Our healthcare packaging includes header bags, peelable pouches, and forming films that protect the integrity of medical devices and equipment.
We believe that the use of sustainable material for packaging is the future. We are committed to helping our customers reach their sustainability goals.
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