Traditional skin packaging (darfresh, etc.) has indisputable advantages, i.e. excellent presentation and long shelf-life of products in virtually wrinkle-free plastic vacuum packaging. The downside is the high cost of packaging. Our system consists of stiff, printable top film; with backing made of transparent, extremely shrinkable multi-layer laminate that will become virtually wrinkle-free if heated briefly.
The normal thermoforming machines can be used, no additional investment are necessary. Film remains reshrinkable due to low forming temperature. Reshrinking is further assisted by passage through hot-air tunnel or quick plunge into hot water, if necessary. This eliminates virtually all remaining wrinkles.
We aim to substitute an expensive existing solution. As presentation does not compare with Darfresh packaging, packagers will need to be somewhat flexible. However, the costs are significantly lower.