2010 Annual Review
Food SOLUTIONS: CASE READY PORTFOLIO

2010 Key Product Launches/Expansions Include:

New Gen Cryovac® LID offers improved shelf life, enhanced inline productivity performance with 40% to 50% less downtime. This solution provides a 20% to 50% reduction in film weight compared to alternatives. Optimum flexibility and pack security.

Cryovac® Mirabella® case ready packaging continues to expand internationally as customers shift from pilot testing to commercial programs in their meat departments. This Cryovac® proprietary lidding system reduces the tray height and increases space utilization by up to 50%—reducing transportation and handling costs, while ensuring the appropriate shelf life and natural color of fresh red meats.

Cryovac® PermeLid film offers a breathable, high-abuse shrink lidding film that is fully co-extruded, multi-layered and heat-sealable, allowing for superior merchandising appeal and product freshness.

Cryovac® BDF® for Whole Bird: a flexible film system that provides a store-wrapped look, but offers a leak-proof closure and longer shelf life.

Cryovac® Darfresh® case ready packaging technologies using vacuum technology to reduce waste by extending shelf life by approximately 30 days, and leak-proof pack safeguards to ensure food safety and superior quality.

Cryovac® New Gen Darfresh®: our new generation high barrier solution at an optimized thickness that reduces the package weight by 30%, offers enhanced productivity efficiency with lower downtime, reduces disposal and green fees, and offers outstanding consumer appeal with tight pack presentation.

Cryovac® Darfresh® Ultra:a new packaging concept for fresh red meats such as extra-matured beef that offers up to 80-day shelf life, allowing for continued maturation in the pack.

Cryovac® Darfresh® Flex/Flex+: our lightest packaging concept for individually packed portions, specifically designed for chilled, frozen, raw and processed products. This format offers a best-in-class carbon footprint within our case ready packaging portfolio.

Food SOLUTIONS: READY MEALS PORTFOLIO

Cryovac® VS936HB® vacuum skin top-film for our Simple Steps® trays. This film offers higher flexibility and convenience in chilled and frozen ready meal tray applications and continues to offer the benefits of a self-venting feature, is microwavable, has an easy-open feature and provides longer shelf life and product freshness.

Cryovac® n'Oven® Ovenable Foam Tray and DOF top films continue to expand as a dual-ovenable solution for both chilled and frozen ready meals. This solution offers trays up to 30% lighter than their rigid C-PET counterparts, remain cool to the touch, and are recyclable in PET facilities.

Cryovac® BDF® Soft packaging features a thinner, anti-fog barrier film for horizontal, form-fill and seal packaging that offers lower costs and greater flexibility than the classic over-wrap film. This newest generation film works with lighter trays, provides greater productivity efficiencies, and reduces the total pack weight by up to 25%.

FOOD SOLUTIONS: LIQUID PACKAGING PORTFOLIO (18ml—1,000ml range):

Cryovac® Flavour Mark® aseptic packaging technology offers high-quality shelf-stable pouches in commercial-sized units—requiring 30% less storage space compared to cans.

Cryovac® trap printed film is the only high-quality printable material designed to run on high-speed Onpack VFFS systems for packages that require direct contact with food, such as those used in meal kits or paired with raw meats.

ProAseptic® packaging materials and systems offer retail-sized aseptic shelf stable solutions in the 100ml to 1 liter range.

2010 Awards include:

  • 2 Dupont Awards for Packaging Innovation
  • Ameristar Gold Award
  • Flexible Packaging Association Highest Achievement & Gold Awards
  • Food Processing’s Readers Choice – Gold Award