The new container of plastic that traps the oxygen to avoid the deterioration of foods
25 April 2013
Ainia And Aimplas work together for the production of the container that brakes the oxidation in foods with high risk of deterioration.
In the second session of Meetingpack 2013, organised by Ainia and Aimplas presented the main novelties in materials and containers with properties barrier. International experts apuntam that in some surroundings where the market and the consumer sue that the foods last more and in better conditions, the new typologies of this type of containers allow to improve of form very important the durability, quality and conservation of the products. In this sense, for foods very sensitive to the deterioration by the performance of the oxygen, as it can be the beer, a plastic container barrier with absorbers of oxygen can prolong his useful life between 13 and 21 weeks more than some containers of plastic PET that do not contain this type of properties, in which his estimate is from among two and three weeks.
During the days of the fair, the company UBE presented a new flexible container of greater resistance that, besides, contains properties barrier to gases like the oxygen. In concrete, the container is composed by plastic material more resistant, able to adapt perfectly to the products, preferably in those that contain surfaces punzantes as it can be bones, for example the chicken or the costillar. Foods, that can rasgar the container, losing like this his function, diminishing his useful life and affecting to his properties.
The container, incorporates less quantity of material, has the capacity to pull with ease with a lower risk of break awarding, besides, a better appearance to the product.
Dow Chemical, by his part, announced the development of a material that allows to improve the sealed of the container, even in adverse conditions that could produce . Of this way, guarantees his hermeticidad for the conservation of the product, avoiding escapes by the sides, the most sensitive zones of the containers.
On the other hand, the company Appe Iberia gave to know a new system for containers of drunk type PET. It treats of a technology that incorporates in the bottle a cap that issues hydrogen and a catalyst. When the oxygen tries to penetrate through the walls of the container, the system reacts turning it into water in very little quantity without altering the product.
The Japanese company Nippon Gohsei Europe showed the new developments obtained of the material EVOH for applications of sterilisation, that allow to improve the properties barrier to the gases for products of long useful life, especially the ready for childish foods, purees, etc. Besides, improve the transparency of the container, attaining a better presentation of the product.
Under this innovation are attaining significant advances in the resistance of this type of material, by what estimates that they can approach to the characteristics of the containers of glass or metal for this type of product of long length.
The company Dupont collaborated with another approach, a new material that improves even more the provision of another material barrier as they can be the EVOH or the polyamide. When incorporating it, attains an elder procesabilidad, transparency, barrier and resistance to the humidity.
As they announced diverse companies of the sector during the second edition Meetingpack, Spain will explain in 2014 with his first plants authorised to produce material recycled allocated to alimentary container. Besides, experts reaffirmed the hygiene of the plastic in contact with foods backed by a demanding legal regulation. Also they stood out other novelties like the systems of packaging; the solutions of containers and
aseptic technologies; new containers of cardboard with 20% less than
CO2; new technologies to measure the oxygen in the container; the studies
of useful life or the influence of the processes of packaging in this.
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