Thanks to increasing consumer hunger for convenience and quality, ready-meal products are on the rise--and so are creative ready-meal packages. Here are some packaging examples to whet your appetite.
Faerch Plast has been appointed as the sole supplier of crystalline polyethylene terephthalate (CPET) trays for a UK frozen ready meal retailer and manufacturer.
KM Packaging has worked alongside tray manufacturer, i2r Packaging Solutions, to create an aluminium tray with transparent lid for a UK supermarket ready meal.
Heat-sealing solutions supplier Proseal has developed a new method
to speed up and simplify tool changes across its range of tray
sealers, a move designed to save manufacturers time and money.
Fast-living Poles are continuing to drive a ready meal revolution
across their country as the invasion of microwaves into consumer
homes grows - bringing plastic trays and cartons to the forefront
of packaging market trends, reports...
UK supplier Kettleby Foods has installed two Proseal F45 tray
sealers to increase efficiency in order to satisfy growing retailer
and consumer demand for ready meals.
A lack of time and increasing incomes levels are the main reasons
for the huge increase in the ready meals and chilled food sectors
in eastern Europe. This week's product launches tracked by Mintel's
GNPD database are testimony...
Packaging Automation (PA), a UK designer and builder of
heat-sealing equipment, has identified swift consumer market change
and greater food diversification as the biggest pressures on those
who manufacture heat sealing packagingmachinery....
Packaging Automation is set to unveil a new filling and sealing
machine at this year's PPMA exhibition to be held in Birmingham,
UK, September 23 to 25.
Kliklok Woodman has recently developed a high speed Ready Meal line
for the European market, which handles ready meal trays at speeds
of 250 packs per minute.