2010 Annual Review
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Our solutions help customers achieve these goals:

  • Extend shelf life
  • Maintain product & brand consistency
  • Reduce waste/spoilage, damage & returns
  • Increase production efficiencies: speed, yields & quality
  • Reduce total cost
  • Enhance merchandising appeal
  • Ensure product convenience and ease-of-use

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Food Packaging

  • Oven Ease™ ovenable bags for bone-in or boneless meat, poultry and fish products combine barrier vacuum packaging with oven-ready convenience - allowing convenient cooking at up to 375°F/200°C, or re-heating within the package. The system reduces prep and cooking time, minimizes clean up and helps maximize flavor and product yield;
  • Multi-Seal® package, an easy open and reclosable deli package that is currently piloting in non-meat applications as we expand usage in areas such as snack foods;
  • Freshness Plus® oxygen scavenging systems and odor scavenging materials;
  • Cryovac Grip & Tear® bags, easy-open end-seal bags for fresh meats, poultry, and smoked and processed products, and cheese:
    • Cryovac® Portion-Pull™ Bag, which provides multiple easy-open access points on larger-sized packaged cheeses typically found in deli-operations
    • Cryovac Grip & Tear® bags for frozen meat applications
    • Cryovac Grip & Tear® bags for post-packaging pasteurization of smoked and processed products
  • PakFormance™ integrated packaging solutions, including PakFormance™ Remote Diagnostics and our “Ready-to-Pack to Ready-to-Ship(SM)” philosophy combine hardware, software, equipment and services that give food processors control and oversight of the food packaging process from start to finish.

Food Solutions

Case Ready Portfolio:

  • Cryovac® Permelid™ / New Gen Cryovac® LID tray lidding film for applications requiring high oxygen transmission. The solution offers improved shelf life, enhanced inline productivity performance with 40% to 50% less downtime, and a 20% to 50% reduction in film weight compared to alternatives.
  • Cryovac® Mirabella® case ready packaging continues to expand internationally as customers continue to 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.
  • 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 game and extra-matured beef that offers up to 70-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.
    • 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.

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 dual-ovenable, has an easy-open feature and provides longer shelf life and product feshness.
  • 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 used in high quality microwavable meal solutions. This newest generation film works with lighter trays, provides greater productivity efficiencies, and reduces the total pack weight by up to 25%.
  • 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.

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.
  • ProAseptic® packaging materials and systems offer retail-sized aseptic shelf stable applications.
  • Cryovac® trap printed film is the only high-quality printable material designed to run on high-speed liquid package systems that produce finished packages, which offers enhanced merchandising and branding.

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