Typical product applications
Prepared pasta based dishes • Chilled and frozen meat joints, including gammon, pork, beef and lamb • Ready to cook prepared products including poultry, fish, red meat and vegetables • Whole chicken, turkey and ducks for oven roasting • Fresh or frozen desserts • BBQ food • Deli style foods.
Product features
Please click on individual product items to identify the relevant product features available for that item. A description of those features can be found below.
| Strength and weight: Through design, our containers have enhanced strength and durability and as a result, we have been able to reduce packaging weight as part of our commitment to help the environment. |
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| Lacquer: These can be applied to both the inside and outside of the container for aesthetic enhancement by way of adding a colour and for improvements in heat sealing to increase shelf life, product resistance against salt and acid and for retort applications including sterilisation and pasteurisation. |
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| Ridged base trays: This design increases hot air circulation by lifting the food off the base of the container. It can speed up cooking and improve roasting of products with high moisture content. |
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| Cooking methods: The complete range can be used for oven cooking and grilling. Under certain conditions the products can also be used in the microwave and plain trays can also be used on the BBQ. |
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| Recycling: All containers are 100% recyclable and carry the clear and concise recycling logo to remind the consumer to not dispose of the container as part of their normal refuse but to recycle wherever possible. |
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| PET clip-on lids: As an alternative to lidding film, we have our own range of clip-on lids which are perfect when presenting and packaging fresh food at outlets such as delicatessens, butcher shops, fishmongers and bakers. |
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| Vacuum packs – ALfresh™: Our own unique ALfresh™ Smoothwall trays provide a perfect ovenable tray solution for vacuum packing processes to extend shelf life for fresh products beyond those achieved with conventional lidding films and give complete on-shelf product protection and placement. |
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