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Flexible Barrier Packaging
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Snacks & Chips | Cookies & Candy | Spices & Flour | Oils & Pickles
| Cannabis | Frozen Foods | Dog and Cat Food | Powder Product | Dairy Product | Agricultural | Chemicals | Personal Care | Industrial | Retort Food | Tea & Coffee | Hot & Fill | Easy Pill Pouches | Spout Liquid Pouches | Laser Scoring | Printed Shrink Films | Forming and Non-Forming | Vacuum Packaging
Snacks & Chips
Ex: Chips, Wafers, Nuts, Popcorn, Seeds, Trail Mix
Low cost points combined with adequate moisture and oxygen barriers while providing exceptional printability key for snack and food packaging.
What Packaging do I use?
Cookies & Candy
Ex: Biscuits, Cookies, Chocolate Bars, Candy, Chewing Gum
High-barrier packaging film will protect your product from moisture, oxygen, and UV exposure which will help extend shelf life, retain flavor, and keep it clean.
What Packaging do I use?
Spices & Flour
Ex: Spices, Flour, Salt, Sugar, Rice, Papad, Baking Mix
Preventing spices and flours from going stale prematurely is a key goal when packaging these items. High seal strength with hot tack to seal through contamination.
What Packaging do I use?
Cannabis
Ex: Cannabis, extracts, edibles, marijuana
Child resistance, regulatory compliance, adhering to state laws, and art design along with barrier needs. Small retail quantities can benefit from different material selections than wholesale.
What Packaging do I use?
Dog & Cat Food
Ex: Dog & Cat Food, Bird Seed, Livestock Feed
Product weight and barrier requirements both play into material selection for dog and cat food which is popular. Bag configuration and feature selection will also be factors.
What Packaging do I use?
Powder Product
Ex: Protein Drinks, Milk Powder, Supplementary Powder
Good MVTR for aroma retention, seal strength and stretch, encapsulated aluminum for optimum shelf-life. Adding some nylon is best fit for these types of bags to prevent blow ups.
What Packaging do I use?
Dairy Products
Baby Food, Yogurt, Shredded Cheese & Butter
Style of pasteurization utilized, moist versus liquid product. Can be frozen. FDA consideration.
What Packaging do I use?
Agricultural
Ex: Plant Seeds and Plant Fertilizer
Puncture resistance, impact strength, high barrier, chemical resistance, acid resistance.
What Packaging do I use?
Chemicals
Ex: Agro Chemicals, Detergent, Industrial Chemicals, Cement
Seal strength, and chemical resistance. Hot tack to seal through loading contamination.
What Packaging do I use?
Personal Care
Ex: Incense Sticks, Cosmetics, Wet Wipes
Cost to barrier ratio. High speed fill, tubing, outer-pack printing quality and marketing.
What Packaging do I use?
Industrial
Ex: Nuts, Bolts, Tools, Plumbing fixtures
Printing consideration, tear XM and XDM, cost for heavy tools content for your products.
What Packaging do I use?
Tea & Coffee
Ex: Tea, Instant Coffee, Coffee Beans
Suitable for sterilization up to 135 degrees C, Shelf life up to 2 years, puncture resistance. Low Conformity.
What Packaging do I use?
Easy Pill Pouches
Ex: Yogurt and dairy
Good seal strength, easy Opening. Facial Packaging and more.
What Packaging do I use?
Spout Liquid Pouches
Ex: Baby Food, Gels, Refills
Reclosable liquid spouts common for sauce. Often stand up on their own.
What Packaging do I use?
Laser Scoring
Ex: Various applications from dried products.
What Packaging do I use?
Printed Shrink Films
Ex: Cans or bottles flexible packaging in bulk
Shrinkable with heat. High strength and high impact.
What Packaging do I use?
CarePac Shrink PET
Forming and Non-Forming
Ex: Meat, Cheese, Sausages, Seafoods etc.
Modified Atmosphere Packaging resistant to hot and cold temperatures. Resistant to oil and fats. High oxygen barrier properties. Excellent aroma retention power. Pasteurization*, EasyPeal available. Excellent sealing and conformity for commercial chamber vacuuming.
Vacuum Packaging
Ex: Meat, Cheese, Seafood, Dry Fruits
Modified Atmosphere Packaging resistant to hot and cold temperatures. Resistant to oil and fats. High oxygen barrier properties. Excellent aroma retention power. Pasteurization*, EasyPeal available. Excellent sealing and conformity for commercial chamber vacuuming.
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Our Films | What is Flexible Barrier Packaging? | How do I Choose the Right Flexible Packaging Films | Shelf Life
With a depth of experience in the flexible packaging industry, we're experts in flexible barrier packaging and all it entails, including consumer packaging. If you're on the search for or are curious about the best types of flexible packaging material, please read on to learn more about us, barrier bags, and our packaging barrier.
CareClear - Polyester & Nylon Barrier Films
CareClear is our line of clear Polyester laminated barrier films.
We offer various lamination structures that including PET, KPET, and Nylons suitable for various uses. Clear materials allow for viewing windows and for the product inside to be seen by your consumer. FDA Food contact, and BPA free.
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CareSilver - Metalized Barrier Films
CareSilver are vaport metalized laminations which provide great Oxygen and Mositure barrier at an economic price. Metalized Polyesters METPET and VMPET are useful as a base for custom printing because the opaque film allows colors to come to life.
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CareFoil - Foil Barrier Films
CareFoil are very high barrier film laminations which incorporate a layer of aluminum foil. Perfect for print, the aluminum foil provides exceptional barrier, and light blocking. For uses where maximum shelf life is required.
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CareCompost - Industrial and Ambient Compostable
Our line of Compostable materials spans a selection of diverse films sourced from the leading suppliers of compostable materials, from economical PLA to cutting edge ambient compostable metalized NatureFlex. We have the eco-friendly options for you, regardless of your industry.
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CareRecycle - Recyclable Flexible Barrier Pouch Materials
CareRecycle includes both virgin recyclable biax PE film, and PCR films. These films are either made of a percentage of recycled material or are made from material that can be recycled more easily than traditional multi-film lamination structures. Typically these will be considered Recycle Code #4.
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CareKraft - Kraft Paper Barriers
For a natural look and feel without compromising on barrier, our CareKraft laminations give the paper look to a plastic bag. Combined with high Barrier layers such as VMPET, or AL. These materials can have a natural look even once fully printed.
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Vacuum Barrier Films
High conformity and strength are the hallmarks of quality vacuum bag materials. CareVac materials range in thickness from 3mil - 8mil, and are ready for print, and custom sizing.
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CareShield - ESD Static Control
CareShield offers an electro-static, semi transparent buried metal, heat-sealable flexible packaging laminations used for pouches designed to provide electrostatic shielding properties. CareShield film is also available in static dissipative and non-static dissipative clean room version.
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What is Flexible Barrier Packaging?
The purpose of Flexible Barrier packaging is to maintain freshness, extend shelf life, and prevent damages to the contents of the package in a non-rigid form. It uses a combination of materials such as flexible plastics, aluminum, paper, and coating to keep oxygen, moisture and light out - while keeping the product inside fresh, new, and damage free. Oxygen and oxidation are major causes of damage to food's appearance and freshness and deterioration.
At CarePac we specialize in using Flexible Barrier Packaging to create custom stand-up pouches, spouted bags, lay flat bags, and tubing, and we specialize in providing the best extrusion and lamination options on the web.
How do I choose the right Flexible Packaging Films?
If you're unsure exactly what your product requires, the best thing to do is call us directly. The experts at CarePac are happy to help you choose the materials that would be perfect for your particular product and industry, from the healthcare to the food and beverage industries.
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Let's Talk Shelf Life of Flexible Packaging Laminations
How long is your product going to be in the package? What's the required shelf life? How important is freshness? These are all important things to ask when thinking about flexible packaging.
Consider two examples: Corn Chips vs. Dried Berries. Corn chips are usually packaged in economical medium to low barrier materials because they are generally consumed quickly. Nobody expects chips to have an extensive shelf life and chips are a low margin retail item that must be economically packaged.
Read more about the Shelf Life of Flexible Packaging Laminations here.
Other Important Considerations for Flexible Packaging:
- Where is the product sold?
- Are there space constraints or other retailer requirements?
- How much product do you need in each package?
- Where is the product stored? Freezer, shelf, outdoors, indoors?
- How is it transported? Is this package going to face pressure changes in air transport?
- What is the temperature of your product at the time of filling?
- What is your "fill philosophy" -- do you want your pouch filled to the rim with product or not?
- Is your product multi use?
- Do you want to view the product, or do you need an opaque package?
- What is your production timeline?
- How many pouches do you need quarterly? Yearly?
- What is your budget?
- How long does the product need to be stored?
- Is there a narrow consumption window?
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