卓越的包装类别Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2003 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards, the winners represent a variety of industries and the materials exhibit an impressive array of properties. (For additional coverage of the awards, see stories on pages 64 and 76.)
不少于三个站立袋是该类别的获奖者之一。其中一人，持有275克的热饮饭（1）来自英格兰的Sainsbury的超市链。屡获殊荣的材料由CLP包装解决方案（www.clp.co.il）提供。虽然便携性是船背后的驾驶员，但它收到了它的包装卓越的金奖，以便其承受腐蚀的能力，并用作微波炉中的可再生容器。站立袋充满275克，并通过合同包装机Fe Intl替发。伦敦超市连锁店的食物（传真：011 / 44.1792.312.919）。
5种品种，Sainsbury的米饭包装在叠层48号PETG / 60型尺寸双轴导向的尼龙/ 2.4-MIL铸造聚丙烯。CLP的以色列植物在Kibbutz Negba凹版印刷八种颜色。Sainsbury已经销售了袋子两年多。
据说货架稳定的袋子的保质期长达12个月。对于Sainsbury的购物者来说，小袋只需要打开和微波再加热以准备吃。袋卖出1.15英镑（约1.88美元）。
“The market for microwave rice has grown to £22 million [US$36 million] without cannibalizing other rice packages,” says David Lambert of FE Intl. Foods, the packer for Sainsbury’s. “We expect this market to grow to £75 million in the United Kingdom by 2006, and to represent 40 percent of retail sales of rice. Based on our worldwide inquiries, we expect the same will happen throughout Europe and in the United States.”
Drink pouch in Peru
Many flexible packages are replacements for rigid plastics, but in Lima, Peru, a new stand-up pouch, Frugos - Pulpa (2), is replacing a glass bottle. Corporacion Jose. R. Lindley (www.incakola.com.pe) , a contract packager, is now hot filling 200-mL pouches with four different juice concentrates for home preparation of 1 L of juice. The product is marketed by Corporacion Inca Kola, a unit of Coca Cola Interamerica, to supermarkets in the Peruvian capitol city.
The pouch from PeruPlast (www.peruplast.pe) is a three-ply lamination of reverse-printed polyester/aluminum foil/ 3.5 mils of a coextruded LDPE sealant. The polyester is printed gravure in eight attention-getting colors. The shelf-stable pouch has an easy-opening and pouring feature. It won a silver Packaging Excellence award in the FPA competition.
“The new concept was to offer the housewife a ready-to-make juice just by adding water,” says Augusto Rey, technical manager at Corp. J. R. Lindley. “We did a market study to identify the housewife’s preferences for a package. It had to have attractive graphics, be easy to handle and low in price. It had to be different from our current Frugos nectars that are sold in glass and brick-style containers.” He adds that the pouch is unique in the marketplace and is considered a success. Twelve pouches are packed into a green paperboard display box.
据秘书长总裁Hans Traver称，新包提供给Inca Kola和更好的图形演示。此外，新袋子提供了更加消费的友好包，更容易和更安全。此外，袋子提供源减少，并以卷形式提供的包装材料需要更少的空间来存储在合同包装机上。
Packaging for the dogs
Gooberlicious Dog Deals的新袋（3）赢得了新英格兰挤出的包装卓越银奖（www.nex-films.com）和Pechiney塑料包装（www.pechiney.com）。花生酱的狗狗狗来自麦地那，俄亥俄州的凯利食品。
NEX sends its Inflex Sealant web M0086 to Pechiney. This blown monolayer material is then incorporated in a lamination consisting of PET/metallized PET/Inflex Sealant web. The PET is reverse printed by Pechiney in eight colors on a flexo press.
NEX says that its Inflex material exhibits greater stiffness at a thinner gauge than would have been possible with a standard LLDPE film. The thinner gauge allows Kelly Foods to use 15% less material. Fewer roll changes on the form/fill/seal machine that makes the package and lower scrap levels are added benefits.
密封剂层还提供良好的屏障性，韧性和热粘性。添加的刚度它可以使小袋更有效地站起来。“很多人都对包装看起来有多好，”Gooberlice Marketing Manager Brett Hyde说。添加了拉链封闭，以提高客户便利性。
Gooberlicious dog treats are available nationwide in pet food retail outlets. The 10-oz packages retail for around $4.24.
灌浆喷嘴
用于其80盎司预混马赛克泥浆（4）的三角形涂料采用的喷丝袋赢得了工艺项目的包装卓越银奖。四侧密封袋的清晰前部显示出可用的三种灌浆颜色之一。前饰或彩色灌浆区别了San Leandro，基于CA的三角形涂料的产品，因为大多数家庭工艺项目的灌浆是白色或黑色的。
Premade Pouches由专业电影和员工提供（www.specialtyfilms.com）提供。未打印的6-MIL粘合层叠层包括48-GA聚酯和5.5密耳的线性低密度聚乙烯。SF＆A从不同供应商的电影来源。两件式喷口插入袋子中，用ST-24喷口插入托纳尼，由庞大代表北美（www.amplas.com）。据报道，白色喷口组分由高密度聚乙烯制成。三角形涂料标签袋，然后用喷口用粘性灌浆填充它们。这是在相同的半自动设备三角形涂层上进行，用于填充其他产品，如涂料。灌浆包专门在Michaels Stores，Inc。出售，北美拥有超过700家商店的艺术和工艺品零售商。迈克尔斯作为三角形涂料的决定使用袋子的动力。
“In Michaels’ stores, they use a combination of shelf space and pegboard displays to merchandise,” explains Mason Woodbury, general manager for Triangle Coatings’ Craft Division. “We were introducing this line of colored mosaic grout, and when we proposed the product to their buyer, she was enthused. However, she told us that they didn’t have any shelf space available in their mosaic department. She said if we could find a way to hang our product on a peg, they would consider it.”
The idea for a pouch came from a trade magazine advertisement for Specialty Films & Associates. “We called them up and had them overnight pouch samples to us. In seven days we had prototypes for Michaels,” says Woodbury. The hang hole is punched into the “top” seal area of the pouch, above the spout.
The pack, which retails for about $5.95, is enough for a 3’- to 4’-square mosaic tile project, Woodbury estimates.
Consumers can see the color through the front of the pouch. And the spout greatly reduces degradation common to wide-mouth jars. Woodbury believes another benefit for the flexible packaging structure is that it’s easier to dispense all the product from the pouch than it is to scoop out all the grout from a jar.
“We introduced this last May,” says Woodbury. “The acceptance has been phenomenal. And our monthly sales are exceeding our expectations by almost 25 percent. We expect to have 12 different colors of grout in the pouch, and we will likely introduce other products in the pouch in the future.”
膳食补充剂
Packaging for the LifePak dietary supplement (5) was so highly regarded by FPA judges that it earned both Packaging Excellence gold and Technical Innovation silver awards.
四侧密封的包装由Provo，基于UT的Pharanex销售，Nu Skin Intl的营养补充分裂。这些补充剂已在柔性袋中填充3“X2”，与电流包相同的尺寸。然而，水分屏障不足，密封件不足引起一些水分敏感的胶囊和片剂，以褪色和崩溃，导致不令人满意的失效率。“这些问题集中在东南亚的高温和湿度环境中，”李克角，Pharmanex供应经理。
Previous packaging included either oriented polypropylene with a sealant layer of polyvinylidene chloride, or a two-web structure using metallized polyester on one side and OPP/ethylene vinyl alcohol/linear low-density polyethylene on the other side.
To address the vexing difficulties posed by poor seals and insufficient moisture barrier, Pharmanex summoned Rollprint Packaging Products (www.rollprint.com), a vendor it had worked with on other packaging projects. Rollprint developed for Pharmanex a film package called NutraSeal, whose 1.25-mil structure includes 48-ga polyester/vacuum-deposited aluminum-oxide coating/0.75-mil metallocene. Its thickness is half that of the previous structure.
Rollprint says the LifePak application represents the first known commercial use of coextrusion-coated oxide-coated polyester film. The structure delivers moisture vapor barrier of 0.08 g/100”2/day or better. Meanwhile, the polyolefin blend provides a strong hermetic heat seal.
该结构还允许Pharmanex的合同包装机以高速运行其平板电脑填充和密封设备。Nutra Seal是一种低的滑动（或高摩擦系数）材料，使胶囊能够在装载过程中略微紧贴到包装膜，使得它们在密封期间不会导致问题。
Pharmanex是圣的另一个关键优势ructure’s high clarity enhances the pack’s appearance. While Pharmanex markets different varieties of LifePak in other markets, including the United States, Angle says the NutraSeal structure is presently used only in five Far Eastern countries. A different variety is marketed in Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and in the Philippines. Each pack holds between four and six tablets, with the recommended dosage being two packs per day. Pharmanex sells 15- and 30-day quantities, with 30 or 60 packs in an outer printed paperboard display carton.
“We’ve been very happy with the change,” says Angle. “The new structure provides significantly better barrier. We also made a change so that two ends of the pack are serrated, which makes them easier for consumers to open.
“过去，”他回忆说：“我们每月大约有20个客户投诉，因为密封和障碍问题差，特别是在泰国。自交换以来，我们有零投诉。这已经节省了很多时间和金钱。“
Del Monte Med-Tunes Lidstock
为了改善其腐败的水果到去产品的包装（6），Del Monte Foods，旧金山，加利福尼亚州，开始于顶部。它引入了一系列新的Lidstock，以便在去年秋天开始的杯状产品。来自卷木（www.curwood.com）的新材料是48-GA聚酯/粘合剂/ 48-GA铝氧化物涂层聚酯/ adhyhesive/2.75-milEZ®PP密封胶。预计盖丁将在2003年中期在产品上全国全国。Lidstock是1999年推出的产品上唯一改变的东西。该产品包括糖浆中的预先果实，并在塑料杯中的秋季果实和凝胶产品中引入。杯子在四元纸板套筒中进行多包。
The new film is much clearer than the previous film, which had a yellowish tint. Del Monte is considering a printed version (shown) that is currently in test, PW is told. Del Monte was unavailable for comment.
The improved lidstock earned a Packaging Excellence silver award and Technical Innovation silver award. Lid and clear plastic cup—and barrier layers—must withstand the rigors of retorting that renders the products shelf stable. The cup, from Printpack’s (www.printpack.com) Rampart Packaging Division, remains a standard barrier structure of PP/EVOH/PP. The cups are packed and sealed by Del Monte operations in the United States and by some overseas contract packaging operations.
