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Microwave packaging comes of age: DuPont Packaging Awards celebrates the plastic pouch's mastery of the microwave.(Food Packaging)

Food Engineering, September, 2003 by Higgins, Kevin T.

Packaging fit for a microwave characterized the winners of the 16th DuPont Awards for food packaging. Three of the five Gold Award honorees, including the Diamond Award winner, involved plastic packaging innovations that make microwave heating and cooking easier.

The top Diamond Award went to Fall River Wild Rice, packaged in America's first microwavable retort pouch. The pouch is manufactured by CLP Industries Ltd., an Israeli supplier with offices in Fairfield, N.J. The shelf-stable rice uses a four-ply structure (plus adhesive layers) that substitutes glass-coated PET for foil to create a gusseted pouch that can withstand retort pressure of up to 21.3 psi. Other layers are BONYL, CPP and PET. The standup pouch is reverse printed in eight colors on a gravure...

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