Items Tagged with 'barrier films'

Renewably sourced Plantic eco Plastic package delivers for fresh beef products.

Flexible packaging for meat, poultry and seafood was valued at $1.9 billion in 2013 in the United States and is growing about 1 percent per year, according to “North American Flexible Packaging Market to 2018,” a report published by PCI Films Consulting, Ltd.

As plastics have become more and more common in packaging, concerns have arisen about their ability to compromise the quality and safety of products.

This ground-breaking innovation has an oxygen transmission rate so low it is virtually undetectable.

Meat, poultry and seafood packaging ranks as a major consumer of specialty films, accounting for about one-third of the total market.

Plantic Technologies Ltd., an international supplier of biopolymers, has debuted its new ultra-high barrier Plantic eco Plastic trays.