Mondi`s RetortPouch Recyclable - Packaging for fresh, ready-to-eat food by Hilcona for Coop’s own brand range
Country: Switzerland
Category: Food
RetortPouch Recyclable is able to withstand high temperatures during the retort process used in food preparation and is suitable for a wide range of applications in the ready-made food and pet food industries. The packaging, which is used for Coop’s products that are manufactured by Hilcona, has an attractive yet sturdy stand-up design that includes a transparent window to allow consumers to view the product on-shelf.
Mondi's RetortPouchRecyclable is a post-consumer packaging for food. It is used by Hilcona and distributed by Coop in Switzerland. The new high-barrier stand-up pouch replaces complex multilayer, unrecyclable packaging. The mono-material, which ensures high temperature resistance (121°) and thus short processing times during the retort process, has a lower CO2 footprint and water consumption.
RetortPouch Recyclable, made of polypropylene (PP)-based mono-material, offers exceptional shelf life and reduces potential food waste. The innovative packaging can replace complex multilayer unrecyclable packaging that uses aluminum or metallised layers to provide high barrier food protection.
The high-barrier pouch will replace complex multi-layer and unrecyclable packaging for a range of food products. Moist or semi-moist foods that are heat-treated in steam or hot water retort vessels to achieve commercial sterilisation for shelf-stable foods require retort packaging. The aluminium typically used in most solutions has been substituted with an innovative high-barrier film that keeps temperatures high and maintains short processing times during the retort process. The new mono-material retort packaging is fully recyclable, offering a solution that protects the product, provides exceptional shelf life for a mono-material solution and reduces potential food waste.