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Stand up pouches are highly versatile and convenient.
Versatile Flexible Seafood Packaging
(REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, 8/22/2022)
Flexible packaging ensures that your seafood is marketed in packaging that protects, promotes and preserves the product inside. Foxpak offers a wide variety of convenient and functional fish and seafood packaging solutions.
From experience Foxpack has found that the fish and seafood sector require flexible packaging that guarantees products are marketed in packaging that is both attractive and efficient with a focus on maintaining product freshness and shelf-life presence.
Also known as a flat pouch, the 3 Side seal is a pre-made alternative to form fill and seal packaging.
As consumer preference moved from freshly sourced to freshly frozen fish and seafood, flexible packaging offers the perfect solution to manufacturers and consumers alike. A unique blend of material structures paired with convenient features such as resealability ensures that your product can be frozen and resealed to maintain taste, texture and aroma
The fish and seafood sector require flexible packaging that guarantees products are marketed in packaging that is both attractive and efficient with a focus on maintaining product freshness and shelf-life presence.
Benefits of flexible packaging
Product Freshness
With the ability to be manufactured with easy-open tear notches, resealable zip locks and airtight seals, flexible packaging serves as the perfect solution for keeping fish and seafood fresh, flavorful, and protected.
Barrier Properties
Flexible packaging is made from food-grade materials that won’t alter the quality of your seafood product. Foxpack's quality barrier films keep air and moisture out while locking in the quality, taste and texture of your fish and seafood product.
Versatility
Flexible packaging is versatile in so far as manufacturers can package fish at room temperature, cold, or frozen, and the seafood can either be pre-cooked or packaged raw. The use of puncture resistant materials ensures that the product maintains its integrity when frozen or vacuum sealed.
Common formats
Foxpack pioneered the development of digital flexible packaging.
Stand Up Pouch: A versatile packaging format that can protect and prolongs your seafood product while standing upright in freezer shelves. With its unique shape, the stand-up pouch differentiates itself from more typical seafood packaging giving the product a more premium look.
3 Side Seal: The nature of this versatile packaging format makes it the perfect solution for packing fish and seafood. The 3-side seal bag can be packed by hand or in line, vacuum sealed and frozen all while maintaining the integrity of your seafood product.
Flat Bottom Bag: Growing in popularity, the flat bottom bags prominent shelf presence and ability to stand unassisted offers maximum impact for fish and seafood brands. Five graphic panels ensure that the branding and nutritional value of the product are seen on shelf.
Sustainable Seafood Packaging
Foxpak are committed to striving towards creating a more sustainable future through improvements in its fish and seafood packaging materials. Generation Green is a range of sustainable packaging solutions that can be used to replace conventional fresh and frozen fish and seafood packaging laminates. It’s primary focus is offering sustainable and environmentally friendly packaging solutions to the masses.
Foxpack currently has three sustainable packaging options to choose from: Compostable, Recyclable and Paper.
Foxpak, previouisly a privately-owned Irish packaging solutions company, pioneered the development of digital printing on flexible packaging. Foxpak partners with leading brands to deliver highly decorated packaging solutions; stand-up and spout pouches, and sachets that serve a variety of markets including food retail, pet food, seafood, and snacks.
Foxpak has leveraged digital printing capabilities to print directly on its flexible packaging materials to empower their customers’ brands. Their solutions can be quickly scaled up or down to meet the production requirements for customers of any size.
Established in 2001, Foxpak is located in Collon, Ireland and employs 33 people, serving brands in more than 30 countries.
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