Food Containers (Fresh & Prepared)
(22 companies)Companies that specialize in making empty rigid packages (often thermoformed) used by retail and fresh food service sectors, i.e., tubs used for fresh soup or deli items at a grocery store. Considering switching to a new container, material? If you need a new package or consumable, explore these articles to help guide your next purchase.
Algus Packaging
In addition to its line of sealing machines, Algus Packaging designs and supplies thermoformed blisters, clamshells, bifolds, and trays that help increase shelf impact and brand awareness. Using the latest design and programming software, Algus Packaging engineers create packages for almost any application from basic rectangle face-seal blister to complex three-dimensional bifolds.
Amcor Rigid Packaging
Amcor produces a wide range of rigid and semi-rigid plastic containers including cups, cup stock, portion packs, bottles, vials, jars, trays, blisters, foil tubes, and more for food, beverage, healthcare, home care, pet care and beyond. Featured products include pre-made rigid thermoformed trays, cups, blisters and lids in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and thicknesses. Cup stock products include Evolution® PVdC-free sheet, which increases compression strength up to 30% for reduced source applications. Other products include EasyPortion, a single thermoformed portion pack with a unique, colorful appearance. Featured bottles include the 300 ml (10 oz) HDPE Cylinder Bottle with 24-410 SP neck finish, used for a range of home and/or personal care products.
Anchor Packaging
Anchor Packaging, a thermoformer of rigid PP and PET plastic containers, offers a wide range of products for foodservice applications, including hinged PP clamshells, containers, and lids that withstand temperatures to 230°F under heat lamps, hot cases, and microwaves. Also available are clear, anti-fog-lids with leak-resistant closures that increase impulse sales, prevent order errors and messy spills. These sturdy PP packages are dishwasher-safe and consumer reusable, and are available in rounds, rectangles, and squares from 5- to 100-oz sizes. PETE hinged containers and bases with separate lids are made with FDA-approved, post-consumer recycled content. This high clarity material offers ultimate food visibility with eye-catching appeal to increase impulse sales from self-serve cases. Safe-Pinch® tamper-evident, clear hinged containers highlight chilled salads, sandwiches and are designed to allow cut fruit and vegetables to respirate. They can also be used for ambient displays of baked goods, dry snacks, and candy.
Aripack
Aripack offers a wide range of stock or custom-made rigid containers for various products and barrier requirements for the dairy, dips and spreads, and coffee markets. Pre-formed trays and baskets are designed for meats, cookies, and bakery products. Other products include single serve white and black coffee pods, which are available with or without a pre-applied filter.
Be Green Packaging
Be Green Packaging delivers custom, molded fiber containers that are recyclable and compostable for food service, personal care, home goods and other markets. Recent applications of Be Green Packaging’s packaging solutions have included developing sustainable, eco-friendly packaging pieces and a molded fiber tray for razors. Another application replaced plastic packaging with molded fiber boxes for water-free face wash swatches that decreased shipping costs and reduced the package’s overall carbon footprint by 70%.
Double H Plastics, Inc.
Double H supplies a variety of containers, focused on the food and dairy industry. From eye catching graphics to custom, functional lids, Double H will create the cup and lid best suited to the product's needs. Double H produces lids with utensils, vented lids for microwavable items, lids with snap fits, and much more. In-mold labeling container designs and options are available.
DURE Co., Ltd.
Dure manufactures food and food service containers of all materials: paper, pulp, aluminum, PLA. Products include paper trays, lunch boxes, specialty cups, bowls, and clamshells. Dure also supplies plastic trays, boxes and containers for sushi, bakery products, salads and side dishes, and seafood. Options include sustainable packaging such as biodegradable PLA and paper. Browse Dure's online product catalog for more.
Idemitsu Unitech Co., Ltd.
MULTILAY food containers are designed to meet today's more demanding requirements, such as keeping fresh food truly fresh, preserving food with low salt or sugar content, and the challenges of food distribution at ambient temperature intended to reduce energy costs. MULTILAY is suitable for controlled-atmosphere and oxygen-free packaging with oxygen absorber, as well as for sterilized packaging, high-temperature filled packaging, and boil/retort sterilized packaging.
IPL Inc
IPL has long lasting relationships with many of the world's largest food companies. IPL’s food containers are available in round and non-round formats, and come in tamper-evident, film seal and freezable varieties. Engineered to keep products fresh and safe, IPL container designs also factor in sustainability, efficiencies in transportation, shelf optimization and attractive decoration elements. All containers are durable and made from 100% recyclable polypropylene or polyethylene. Available in a wide range of sizes and capacities for all liquid or dry foods.
Klöckner Pentaplast
Klöckner Pentaplast of America (kp) supplies thermoformed trays, rigid films for form, fill and seal applications as well as flexible films to protect products, operating across a vast range of fresh food categories. kp aims to ensure consumer packaged goods companies get the most sustainable, total food packaging solutions that not only protect food products while extending shelf-life and reducing food waste, but that can also be recycled.
Packline USA
Deli cups from Packline USA are 100% recyclable PET containers suitable for applications using lidding film and high pressure packaging (HPP). With or without hard caps, cups are suitable for all equipment lines.
Placon
Placon designs and manufactures stock and custom thermoformed and injection molded blisters, clamshells, trays and other packaging for food, retail, and medical markets that are sustainable and functional. Placon's offers sustainable, thermoformed packaging innovations such as Crystal Seal® Cravings™ product line made with recycled PET material and tamper-evident features. Other thermoformed containers include the Fresh 'n Clear® product line, including bowls and trays. The Fresh 'n Clear® four-compartment insert tray is made from EcoStar post-consumer recycled PET, is completely recyclable, and replaces the unsustainable flexible pouches in regular salad kits. Placon also offers an extensive range of tubs, bowls, freezable and deli cups for food, thermformed blisters and clamshells for medical applications, and ready-for-retail clamshells.
Plastic Ingenuity
Plastic Ingenuity is a large thermoformer that supplies containers and packaging to the food, healthcare, and consumer goods industries. Plastic Ingenuity's engineers are hired and trained to have in-depth knowledge in their particular areas of focus. For example, food packaging experts work with clients to create unique thermoformed solutions ranging from easy-open and to-go packages to innovative designs that preserve freshness. Healthcare packaging thermoforms for medical devices and other applications are engineered to exceed the most stringent quality and regulatory standards. Consumer goods thermoforms and clamshells can be custom designed for electronics, e-commerce, and many other industries.
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Plastipak Packaging Inc.
Plastipak caters to diverse industries, crafting plastic containers for aerosol, soft drinks, water, cleaning, juice, food, dairy, automotive, personal care, and alcoholic beverages. Specialists in carbonated drink and water bottles, they offer a range from single serve to custom-sized bottles and containers. Additional products include PET aerosol packaging for personal care, food containers ensuring freshness, and a variety of plastic containers for household and cleaning products. Plastipak's expertise extends to containers for unit dose laundry and dishwasher products, as well as bottles for sprayed cleaning solutions and more.
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Polipa North America
Polipa North America offers a full range of HDPE and PP containers in sizes and styles from small transparent tubs to large pails with metal or plastic handles. Injection molded containers come in round, rectangular, triangle, oval and square formats and are suitable for a myriad industries from dairy and frozen foods to snack foods and chemicals.
Polytainers Inc.
Polytainers supplies an array of polypropylene (PP) containers for food applications such as margarine, sherbet, yogurt, ricotta, sour cream, ice cream, hummus, fruits and vegetables and more. Polytainers offers containers in a wide range of diameters and capacities as well as a variety of decoration styles: dry-offset printing, in-mold labeling and shrink sleeve decorations. Specialty containers include dual compartment in-mold labeled Sidekick containers for applications such as yogurt/granola packs.
Printpack
Printpack’s rigid plastic packaging portfolio includes thermoforming rollstock, precision controlled multi-layer co-extruded sheet and thermoformed cups and other containers for on-the-go packaging applications. Printpack supplies containers with a special focus on food applications, designing features for barrier solutions and easy-peel barrier lidding. Stock or customized design options are available, and Printpack offers printing, embossed logos, and custom colors for differentiation. Products are suitable for hot-fill, retort, in-package pasteurization, aseptic, Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP), and ambient fill applications. Containers for nonfood applications such as household supplies, lawn and garden and medical packaging are also available.
Priority Plastics
Priority Plastics supplies a variety of rigid containers, including HDPE Tight Head containers for industrial packaging such as food flavors, fragrances and beverage concentrates. Priority Plastics’ product line also includes HDPE canisters, used in nutraceuticals applications such as powders, cannabis, and vitamins as well as HDPE or PET canisters for dry pack towel wipes. Company also supplies rigid PET containers for retail applications such as snacks and pet food and F-style containers for specialty chemicals and edible oils.
Sonoco
Rigid plastic and paper containers from Sonoco include the flagship EnviroCan™ paper container with a paper or metal end, which is made of 100% recycled fiber, designed to meet the ongoing challenge of balancing responsible materials sourcing with product and food safety. Other rigid containers from Sonoco include hinged and lidded containers, in-mold labeled containers, trays and bowls, thermoformed blister packaging and much more.
TekniPlex Consumer Products
Grupo Phoenix, now part of Tekni-Plex, supplies a vast range of cups and trays used for food service and disposable consumer products. Product range includes barrier polypropylene cups and coextruded polypropylene cups used in packaging applications such as soup cups, single-serve and domed-cup yogurt, multipacks of HPP or retort salsa cups and others.
Visstun
Visstun supplies paper and plastic containers for products ranging from pet food, oatmeal and ramen to ice cream, sherbet and other applications. Paper cups and containers are made with Sustana® EnviroLife™ Post-Consumer Recycled Fiber, a sustainable recycled paper.
Winpak Lane, Inc.
Winpak’s rigid container product offering includes cups, trays, food containers as well as films for semi-rigid thermoforming films for blister applications. Highlights from the Winpak product line include the MAPfresh® barrier tray, used primarily for case-ready packaging applications such as animal and plant protein, seafood, cheeses, pre-made meals, and other items. Recyclable trays are suitable for freezing as well as reheating in a microwave. Other products include S-Series thermoformed flat rim cups with a 37mm top diameter, designed for high-speed fill/seal machines for applications including margarine, butter, spreads, and many other liquid and semi-viscous products.
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