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It treats of the first container with labeling IML barrier in Spain

The case Guacamole for Mercadona: decoration and barrier in an alone step

Editorial Interempresas26/11/2012

ITC Packaging finds in full production of the that is the 1º container with labeling IML barrier in Spain, according to the company. Three are the aims fulfilled with the new LongLifeQ: decoration of high quality and impact, levels of OTR reduced drastically and reduction of preservatives of the product.

The guacamole is a product with a cycle of life very limited, this does not facilitate his production, manipulation as well as the transport and distribution. In a world in which the alimentary scraps suppose big part of the costs associated to the product, the packaging can contribute the solution.

Thus, in ITC Packaging has developed a container for Fruit Montosa that helps to conserve the product and that communicates by himself only, with label barrier IML multilayered PP/EVOH/PP that provides a result of decoration wrapping the container in his whole, with lower manipulation that other formats of decoration like offset in dry, the sleeve or PML. A packaging that contributes value to the product that, because of his fast deterioration and nutritious characteristics, sensory and sanitary ware that define his quality and acceptance for the consumption, has seen multiplied his life when achieving the reduction of levels of OTR, everything in an alone step.

A question of oxygen

The labeling of containers with IML barrier allows to reduce enormously the permeabilidad to the oxygen of containers injected in PP. When including in the label IML a layer of EVOH reduces significantly the transmission of oxygen and/or light of the outside to the interior of the container, this allows to prolong the life of the food and even in some cases avoid the need to conserve the foods in cold or use additional preservatives.

All this allows even compete, with traditional containers of high barrier as they are the ones of glass or metal, in some applications like products cárnicos, products of IV & V range, sauces and soups, childish food, feeding for pets, cheeses and other products untables, jams, among others, supposing also a barrier for flavours, smells and freshness.

The vision of Fruit Montosa

“Have worked with ITC mainly for having the same philosophy that we, the work elbow with elbow and the tireless research of solutions for our customers. Only like this it achieves the result expected. Without this synergy had not been able to offer an innovative product and of big quality for the consumer”, ensured Federico Montosa, department of Marketing.

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