Show Stopping Meat, Poultry and Fish Trays Will Launch by Sharp Interpack

The new design enables lightweight trays to be wrapped at speed. The trays offer a lower carbon footprint than standard PP as they contain a high mineral filler content.

14 Apr 2010 --- Despite the recession and the need for cost vigilance, materials technology, the environment, design and innovation are still very much at the head of the packaging agenda. Retailers are looking for good looks that will sell product as well as extending product shelf life through improved MAP technology.

With Sharpak winning plaudits for packaging design is a way of life - they have been shortlisted for the 'Food Processing' award for their Sharplok+ padless trays and recently designed a two-in-one slow cooking beef shin tray for Dunbia that subsequently won  'Sainsbury's Own Brand Supplier of the Year Award'.

Sharp Interpack has a number of new designs to unveil. The broad range of  colours in their meatball trays, the 'S' range of new lightweight poultry trays in 8 cut sizes with multi depths offering reduced denest for increased pallet utilisation with HDPE used as the recyclate in their production.

The F2 and F3 trays with Sharplok in the base with up to 80% improvement in palletisation.

An attractive range of coloured wholebird trays with 3 sizes to suit 1kg to 3kg. The new design enables lightweight trays to be wrapped at speed. The trays offer a lower carbon footprint than standard PP as they contain a high mineral filler content.

The deep wholebird tray in rPET/PE contains up to 72% recycled waste reducing reliance on virgin petro-chemical materials by up to 28%.

A range of meat, BBQ and burger trays in a range of depths in materials rPET/PE laminate, rPET monoHHS.

c-LOW is a breakthrough in materials technology- it has the lowest carbon footprint on the market containing UK sourced post consumer waste blended with natural minerals. It is highly tactile and soft to the touch. The material will be exhibited on the Sharpak stand - currently used in mushroom punnets it has wider applications across meat and poultry. Watch this space.

Ovenex is a  broad range of oven ready packaging in cPET. Aside from bespoke development  the standard range consists of over 50 designs. Sharpak has made further investment in this market with new tooling and machinery to develop a brand new ready-meal cPET material created in its own in house laboratories. See some of the range on display at IFFA.