⦁ SHELFPLUS® O2 is used by Greiner Packaging for multilayer trays
Hamburg, 30th September 2014. ALBIS PLASTIC and Greiner Packaging now offer an ‘active packaging’ solution for meat and fish spreads.
To reduce the risk of oxidation to sensitive foods such as pasteurized paté, Greiner Packaging uses oxygen-absorbing SHELFPLUS® O2 in thermoformed mutilayer trays.
Roland Schultz, Director Marketing Packaging at ALBIS PLASTIC, commented: “Substituting metal packaging with plastic packaging requires maximum barriers and product protection, made possible only by a combination of EVOH and oxygen absorber.”
In contrast to conventional packaging, active packaging solutions with integrated oxygen absorber eliminate the residual oxygen in the headspace and in the product after filling as well as oxygen permeating through the multilayer structure.
The advantages of the new packaging, according to Kenneth Boldog, Head of Division K at Greiner Packaging, “are the shaping and high quality decoration, the recloseability and the low carbon footprint.”
Barrier packaging, equipped with SHELFPLUS® O2, eliminates the necessity of using preservative agents, anti-oxidants or coloring agents in the food recipe. The quality of sensitive constituents such as vitamins, fats and oils is preserved, and the taste remains unchanged.
