Soup and Sauces

Our flexible retort pouches make great packaging solutions for soup and other liquid food products. You can use sealers with our bags to ensure your products stay fresher for longer. We can even add a protective inner layer to prevent leakage and prevent exposure to oxygen.

Baby Food

Perfect for commercial baby food producers, our retort pouches can be customized with pour spouts and are flexible. Customize your pouch and print your logo on the outer film or use our stock options if you're in a time pinch. Our vacuum sealers are better than jars! 

Prepared Meals

Prepared meals, and microwaveable pouches for everything from beans, and chili to Indian curry and noodles. Consumers love the convenience of retort pouches. Co-packers love the reduced warehouse storage required and easy loading. 

What Is Retort Packaging? 

Retort packaging is packaging that is used as part of the retort sterilization process. Where sterilization is obtained through the application of heat to a sealed container. 

How is retort Packaging different than aseptic packaging? 

With Retort packaging, the food is heated in the pouch. With aseptic packaging, the food is ultra-heated outside the pouch, quickly cooled, and loaded into sterilized packaging. 

Why Is Retort Packaging Ideal for prepared foods

By using the correct materials (plastics that withstand the temperatures required for sterilization) both the food item and the pouch are sterilized through the heating process. Creating one sterilization process. 

What alternatives to retort packaging exist? 

HPP (High pressure pasteurization), vacuum pasteurization, and Ultra Heat Treatment) are other methods of sterilization. 

Can Retort Packaging be used for end user Boiling Water Reconstitution?

Yes, retort packaging is a good choice for boiling water reconstitution (adding hot water to reconstitute freeze dried or dehydrated foods) because of it's ability to withstand high heat. 

What are the MOQs on custom retort packaging? 

Our MOQ’s are some of the lowest around – as little as 5,000 pieces. If you're looking for less than 5000 bags, we offer some digitally printed solutions as well. 

Retort Curry Pouch

3 side retort pouches are a fantastic choice when you do not need the product to sit on a shelf. Curry, sauces, and single serving items are great when placed in retort flat pouches. 

Retort pouches can be placed in outer paperboard cartons for retain display! 

Retort Noodle Pouches

Noodles and prepared ethnic food items have been well received in retort pouches. The ease of preparation (microwave, or stovetop) as well as the wide face and back provided by retort pouches, which makes them perfect for custom printing and/or applying a label. 

Beans, and Soups

Common throughout a lot of the world but gaining traction in the USA. Food items traditionally canned are now being packaged in Retort pouches. Beans, canned vegetables, and soups are three great examples of food items that take well to retort Stand up pouches.