Amcor has revealed its bespoke three-compartment tray for French manufacturer Cofigeo’s range of single-serve ready meals, said to conform to Design for Recycling guidelines and offer a lightweight mono-material polypropylene (PP) construction, suitable for collection and reprocessing in France’s recycling infrastructure.
The trays will be used to package five French and Italian style recipes from the William Saurin Mon Trio Gourmand range, each featuring meat or fish, a starchy food and a vegetable. Keeping the three main ingredients separate enables consumers to choose whether to mix them when the meal is eaten.
Amcor says it devised a tray with different sized compartments that considered the various sizes, textures and densities of the ingredients. The tray also had to meet Cofigeo’s requirements to be suitable to run on existing filling lines, de-stackable, retortable, provide an effective oxygen barrier and ensure ease of use for the end-consumer.
The multi-layer PP tray incorporates a barrier that reportedly delivers over 12 months’ ambient shelf-life for the five meals. Amcor states the tray is manufactured in a near-infrared (NIR) terracotta masterbatch, enabling it to be recognized by NIR sensors in recycling facilities.
Earlier this year Amcor launched its flexible Liquiflex AmPrima pouches in Europe for bulk foodservice products, said to offer a carbon footprint reduction of up to 79% and an 84% reduction in water consumption. The pouches take up ‘a fraction of the storage space’ before filling compared to traditional canned packaging and pack tighter than cans when filled.
This month the company partnered with Bulldog Skincare to implement over 62% post-consumer recycled plastic into its tubes and reduce their sleeve thickness by almost 17% – a move set to save around 8.5 metric tonnes of plastic annually. Amcor reports that it has conducted trials to prove the tube’s high print quality, leak resistance, squeezability, and consumer experience are not compromised.
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