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How to choose plastic packaging materials?

Jun 14, 2024

1. Cooking packaging bag

how to choose plastic packaging materials

Packaging requirements: Used for packaging meat, poultry, and other products. The packaging should have good barrier properties, be resistant to bone holes, sterilize, crack, shrink, and have no odor under cooking conditions.

Design structure:

Transparent category: BOPA/CPP, PET/CPPPET/BOPA/CPPBOPA/PVDC/CPP

PET/PVDC/CPPGL-PET/BOPA/CPP

Aluminum foil: PET/AL/CPP, PA/AL/CPP

PET/PA/AL/CPPPET/AL/PA/CPP

Design reason:

PET: High temperature resistance, good rigidity, good printability, and high strength.

PA: High temperature resistance, high strength, flexibility, good barrier properties, and puncture resistance.

AL: Best barrier performance and high temperature resistance.

CPP: It is a high-temperature resistant cooking grade with good heat sealing, non-toxic and odorless.

PVDC: High temperature resistant barrier material.

GL-PET: Ceramic vapor coating with good barrier properties and microwave transmission.

For specific product selection, transparent bags are mostly used for cooking, while AL foil bags can be used for ultra-high temperature cooking.

2. Expanded snack food

how to choose plastic packaging materials

Food packaging plastic bags packaging requirements: Oxygen blocking, water blocking, and avoidance

Light, oil resistant, fragrant, brightly colored, and cost-effective.

Design structure: BOPP/VMCPP

Design reason: Both BOPP and VMCPP are quite scratch resistant, BOPP has good printability and high glossiness. VMCPP has good barrier properties, maintaining fragrance and moisture resistance. CPP also has good oil resistance.

3. Cookie packaging

how to choose plastic packaging materials

Plastic pouch with zipper packaging requirements: good barrier, strong shading, oil resistance, high strength, odorless and tasteless.

Design structure: BOPP/EXPE/VMPET/EXPE/S-CPP

Design reason: BOPP has good rigidity, good printability, and low cost.

VMPET has good barrier properties, avoiding light, oxygen, and water.

S-CPP has good low-temperature heat sealing and oil resistance.

4. Milk powder packaging

how to choose plastic packaging materials

Packaging requirements: long shelf life, fragrance and flavor preservation, anti oxidation and deterioration, and anti moisture absorption and clumping.

Design structure: BOPP/VMPET/S-PE

Design reason: BOPP has good printability, good gloss, good strength, and moderate price.

VMPET has good barrier properties, light avoidance, good toughness, and metallic luster. It is best to use reinforced PET aluminum plating with a thick AL layer.

S-PE has good anti pollution sealing performance and low-temperature heat sealing.

5. Green tea packaging

how to choose plastic packaging materials

Packaging requirements: Anti spoilage, anti discoloration, and anti odor, which means preventing the oxidation of proteins, chlorophyll, catechins, and vitamin C contained in green tea.

Design structure: BOPP/AL/PE, BOPP/VMPET/PEKPET/PE

Design reason: AL foil, VMPET, and KPET are all materials with excellent barrier properties, which have good barrier properties against oxygen, water vapor, and odors. AK aluminum foil bag and VMPET also have excellent light resistance. The product price is moderate.

6. Beverage packaging bags

how to choose plastic packaging materials

Packaging requirements: The pH value of acidic beverages is less than 4.5, pasteurized, and generally barrier resistant.

Neutral beverages have a pH value greater than 4.5, which requires high sterilization and barrier properties.

Design structure:

Acidic beverages: PET/PE (CPP), BOPA/PE (CPP), PET/VMPET/PE

Neutral beverages: PET/AL/CPP, PET/AL/PA/CPPPET/AL/PET/CPPPA/AL/CPP

Design reason: For acidic beverages, PET and PA can provide good barrier properties and resistance to pasteurization. Due to acidity, the shelf life is extended.

For neutral beverages, AL provides the best barrier properties, high PET and PA strength, and high temperature sterilization resistance.

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