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Food packaging film is one of the most important flexible packaging films today. Cause this is the food contact packaging, and it is related to human health and safety.
But still there are many food manufacturers don’t know how to choose the right food packaging film, so the food production is not good from transportation and warranty time.
Today we will give you an ultimate guide on how to select the best food packaging film.
It’s an in-depth article that takes 20 minutes to read.
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Food packaging Film is the film to pack food. Specifically it is a thin plastic layer used to preserve, protect, market and distribute various food items. It provides protection for loss of nutrients, color, aroma, taste, and maintaining the functional properties of food. Packaging films also help protect food from the harmful effect of microorganisms.
It can be single layer film or multi layer laminated film. But normally the inner layer food direct contact film is PE, PP, PA, PBAT and PLA currently. This is the best choice for sustainable food packaging.
The demand for food packaging film is increasing rapidly today for below reasons:
Population Increase: The population increase will sure have food demand increase. Food demand increase will make food packaging increase. Food packaging increase will need food packaging film increase.
Food distribution globally: Due to the transportation development in ocean shipment, truck shipment, river shipment, and air freight shipment; the communications of human and goods are also having rapid development globally. Which means people in North EU can buy the products from South America in their local stores. Food packaging film is playing an important role in transportation and quality production.
Smaller packaging trend: As the society development, people would like to have different kinds of foods with smaller portions. So they can enjoy different kinds of foods with different nutrition.
Better Food packaging concept: Today people is having better food packaging concept. In most of the countries, people packed rise and suger in very big bag such as 50kg bag. And then selling kg by kg in market places. But today, the food manufacturer would prefer to have 1kg bag pack with their own logo printed on the bag, and sell them in the stores.
Instant food development: The development of instant food is very fast. And more and more people is not cooking themselves, but choose instant food instead. As we know all the instant food will need food packaging, in this case the demand for food packaging film is also increase.
Transportation protection: As we know one of the main reasons for food packaging film is to protect the food during transportation. A suitable packaging film will definitely protect the food well during transportation.
Food Quality Protection: The packaging will also need to protect the food quality to prolong shelf life. As we all know one thing very important when people buying food is too check the warranty time period. The main reason to make the food can last long in the warranty time period without losing quality is the food packaging. If it is necessary, you will need to choose high barrier packaging film to product the food from light, moisture, oxygen, etc.
Marketing: Marketing is also important for product branding. For example, you will need to super high transparent film to see through the pack products. You can also need a film with good printing capability.
Cost Saving: We all know that the higher quality the film, the better. But as a food manufacturer, we will also need to consider the film cost. So the best choice is to choose the film which can meet the requirement while with the lowest cost.
When we select our best food packaging films and make our custom food pacakging. We will follow below steps:
Firstly, we should list our requirements: size, weight, thickness, roll stock or pre-made bag, shape, barrier, printing, transparent, annual quantity, budget, sustainability.
Secondly, we will list all the film proposals.
Thirdly, we will select the best choice on our proposal.
Lastly, we strongly recommend to do testing before in mass production.
Sustainability is the core value for most of the film packaging company and food company. So we strongly recommend these food companies consider sustainability when they are selecting their food packaging film. Eco friendly packaging materials are always our first choice.
Reusable, recyclable and compostable are these packaging trends today. It is not very good to use reusable packaging for food. So we will need to focus on recyclable and compostable.
Compostable food packaging is mainly single layer PLA or paper. And paper/PLA for laminated film. But there is no high barrier function, and the printing on paper is not very high quality. So if you don’t require high barrier, and you don’t need good quality printing on the bag, then compostable is a good choice.
Recyclable packaging is dominating the sustainable film packaging today. No matter it is single layer, standard multi-layer, or high barrier multi-layer film, you can always find the right film proposal.
Especially when there is few compostable packaging collection service and composting facility, we will recommend the packaging company focus on recyclable packaging. And we will also recommend the food packaging to consider recyclable packaging first.
Longdapac is the leading flexible packaging manufacturer from China. We focus on sustainability packaging as you can see below:
Longdapac is the first high barrier MDO-PE film supplier in China.
Longdapac is the first Chinese factory who can make high barrier mono-material PE pouch.
Longdapac recyclable high barrier mono-material PE pouches can meet the recyclability of
Longdapac is a BRC and ISO certified factory with annual capacity of more than 25,000 tons.
Basically Longdapac can satisfy all your recyclable packaging needs, both standard and high barrier.