Your food’s journey from farm to table is a long one, with chances of food spoilage during picking, transit, packaging, shipping, and storage. In handling food products for such a long period without compromising the quality, the most essential aspect is the packaging. It would help if you considered barrier properties to keep the product’s integrity intact. Barrier packaging plays a key role in extending the shelf life of products while ensuring that the structure is recyclable with all layers relevant to polymers.

Barrier films have high resistance co-extruded and flexible structure that is solvent-free and don’t react with the food. This helps prevent coming in contact with oxygen, carbon dioxide, or even moisture while restraining the migration of mineral oil and UV light. This stringent barrier, created using special materials, also maintains the properties of food, such as taste, color, texture, flavor, and aroma. We at Momar Industries deliver engineered BOPP-based barrier films, which extend the shelf life of food products while protecting them against intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

TYPES OF HIGH-BARRIER FILMS

As per recent research, there is a rising demand for packaging materials that preserve the content better. This is due to concerns about the tendency of plastics to enable the exchange of gasses that can damage the safety, quality, and flavor of packaged food. Nowadays, high-barrier packaging films play a key part in product protection. It extends the shelf life and the quality of the product.

Oxygen Barrier Films

Savor the extended shelf life; some products should be packaged in film that features limited to zero oxygen transmission rates. Oxygen high-barrier films add a specific material layer to keep oxygen or any moisture out of the pouch, preserving your product’s taste, color, or scent. If you are seeking professional and unique protective product packaging, our team at Momar Industries can help you choose the optimum oxygen barrier packaging structure for your special purposes. Enjoy our variety range of materials at your disposal.

Moisture Barrier Films

Are you looking forward to protecting your products against excessive moisture and vapor? Our moisture barrier material will do magic. With protective layers and robust materials such as film foil lamination and high-density polyethylene, it can be customized into high-barrier packaging films to prevent any undesired element from entering the pouch.

High-Barrier Films for Food Packaging

The unexpectedly shortened shelf life of a product is one of the most prevalent food-related problems that consumers face. By creating a highly securely sealed barrier system, high-barrier product packaging helps in the preservation of smells and tastes. The barrier coating prevents oxygen, water, and moisture from invading the packaging. This film works great for items like coffee grounds, snacks, and specific dry ingredient food products.

High-Barrier Films for Non-Food Products

Non-food products like nutraceutical supplements and home chemicals can benefit from high-barrier packaging. Our specially produced materials are tested and verified throughout the lamination procedure to give supreme protection. 

ADVANTAGES OF BARRIER FILMS

Barrier films are everyone’s preferred choice in the packaging realm due to their ability to protect products against external aspects like gases, light, and moisture. These films are constructed using a diverse range of materials, including polypropylene, polyethylene, and nylon – they can be used for different applications. Read on to learn about the numerous benefits they offer; barrier films come with some snags that should be taken into consideration:

The primary benefit of barrier films is their qualities that help protect products against moisture and external factors. This is paramount for delicate food and items that are sensitive to moisture, like electronics, deli goods, and pharmaceuticals. This film is robust enough to protect items within from carbon dioxide and oxygen, which can be detrimental to the quality of certain items.

Another benefit of opting for barrier films is their incredible ability to protect food or products against light. Many don’t know, but light can cause degradation and discoloration of certain products such as cosmetics as well as vitamins. This is where barrier films come into the picture, preventing this from happening.

Barrier films help extend the product’s shelf life – as mentioned earlier by protecting them against external aspects. This can be significantly beneficial for products that have a short shelf life, such as fresh produce and dairy goods, and help reduce waste.

While there are many more benefits of opting for barrier films, there are some snags that may come along – one of the primary disadvantages is that they can be more expensive than other packaging materials, which makes them less cost-effective.

Another drawback of these films is that they can be complex to recycle. Many barrier films are constructed using a combination of materials, which makes it difficult to recycle. These are some issues for companies that are trying to reduce their environmental impact. Barrier films are not as flexible as other packaging types, which makes them less suited for products that go through a lot of handling and shipping, such as powders and liquids.

HIGH-BARRIER FILMS FOR FOOD PACKAGING

As aforementioned, there are myriad types available, each offering a unique set of benefits.

Listed below are popular choices:

– Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol EVOH barrier films are highly flexible, which makes them perfect for poultry, fish, and meat products. They are extensively used as a substrate or as independent packaging material.

– Polyester is a high-performance film that is commonly used as a laminating solution. It provides a remarkable oxygen barrier, heat resistance, and durability. When laminated onto certain materials, it offers a strong water barrier and UV protection.

– Coating PET with a soft saran lamination produces KPET, a lamination that can be used on other films. They have strong gas, moisture, and vapor protection, which makes them perfect for flexible food packaging for dry goods, odiferous goods, and goods that are sensitive to odors.

– Polypropylene, as mentioned above, is a clear, high-barrier flexible film extensively used for food packaging. It features a remarkable food moisture barrier and high OTR. These films exhibit a small number of high-barrier films – various combinations of these also exist.  

Need high-barrier packaging films? Consult our team.

About Momar Industries

We are your trusted manufacturer of packaging and lamination films. Our team engineers, designs, and produces leading-edge packaging solutions and components by utilizing state-of-the-art converting equipment. Our team is driven by a passion for exceptional performance and customer service intended to meet every expectation to your complete satisfaction.

Our goal is to relieve customers of inventory shortages and prevent production stoppages, no matter what it takes. With an unwavering commitment to service, we provide technical resources and access to a large network. We also take steps to assist with troubleshooting issues at facilities.