Safety and Shelf Life

Dynamic Barrier Solutions for a Demanding Marketplace

In a world where every day of shelf life matters and safety can’t be compromised, Curwood helps you achieve top packaging performance. Our advanced barrier systems send millions of products to market each day, protected from air, moisture, even microbes. These proprietary material technologies withstand the harshest production processes to deliver fresher, more natural foods, all with unmatched production efficiency.

Explore our portfolio of industry-leading solutions to help your products survive and compete:

Aseptic Laminations
  Discover films that stand up to punishing steam and chemical sterilization for stickpacks, snack cups and other applications.
FreshCase® Case-Ready Packaging
  Curwood’s FreshCase® films for case-ready meats deliver the advantages of vacuum packaging with the fresh red color consumers expect. Easy-open, freezer-ready packages allow meat to age and tenderize in package, stay until ready to use in fridge until Use-By date. Packaging achieves shelf life of more than 30 days, with display life of 14 days. Dramatically reduces spoilage and waste to help meat processors and grocers maintain critical profit margins. Uses 75% less packaging materials than traditional case-ready formats, while eliminating purge and blackened bones experienced with gas-flush packaging.
Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP)
  See solutions for longer shelf life, fresher products, reduced spoilage for gas-flushed foods.
Post-Packaging Sterilization
  View barrier packaging materials that can withstand the most demanding post-packaging sterilization conditions.
Retortable Films
  See high-barrier materials that allow retort processing of meats like chunk chicken and seafood.
Tamper-Evident Packaging
  Learn how options like fusion-seal lidstock and hooded sliders can protect your product from tampering or pilferage.
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