Ready meal packaging needs to do more than hold food. It has to show customers their meal hasn’t been opened, protect it through storage and delivery, cope with the freezer and microwave, and still look professional on the shelf or at the customer’s door. For many food producers, rectangular tamper evident containers tick every box. […]
Yes, most rigid tamper evident containers are recyclable. The majority are made from polypropylene, commonly identified by the number 5 plastic code. Polypropylene is widely used for food packaging because it is strong, lightweight and suitable for many hot, chilled and frozen applications. However, whether a complete pack can be recycled depends on more than […]
When your food packaging delivery arrives, it is important to check it carefully before it is moved into storage or unpacked. Every order leaving SystemPAK is checked, securely wrapped and labelled. However, parcels and pallets pass through courier depots and distribution networks before reaching you. Although damage is uncommon, checking your delivery straight away makes […]
Walk along the chilled or deli counter in any modern food retailer, and you’ll notice that the best-looking products rarely have a label stuck to the side. Instead, the branding appears to be part of the container itself – vivid, seamless, and resistant to the condensation, refrigeration, and handling that would peel or smudge a […]
Packaging is one of the most visible costs in any food production business and one of the easiest to overlook when margins are tight. But reducing spend doesn’t have to mean reducing standards. With the right approach, food producers can make meaningful savings while maintaining the quality, compliance, and shelf appeal their products demand. Here […]
CPET vs PP Trays: Which Is Right for Your Food Packaging? When it comes to top seal trays, two materials come up more than any other: CPET and PP. Both are widely used across food packaging, but they’re built for genuinely different jobs – and picking the wrong one can mean a tray that cracks […]
Food Packaging Compliance: What You Need to Know If you supply, prepare, or sell food, the packaging it goes into isn’t just a presentation choice – it’s a legal one. UK food businesses have a duty to ensure that any container, film, or lid touching their product is safe, suitable, and properly documented. Yet “compliant […]
If you produce artisan gelato, premium ice cream, or frozen desserts for wholesale or retail, the quality inside the tub only carries your brand as far as the packaging protects it. Investing in the right tamper-evident ice cream containers is not simply a compliance exercise – it directly affects food safety, distribution efficiency, and what […]
Food-Specific Containers: Understanding Which Packaging Is Best Suited to Your Industry Walk into any supermarket chilled aisle and you will notice that no two products sit in the same style container. Hummus comes in a wide, shallow pot. Smoked salmon lies flat under a tight film seal. Clotted cream fills a squat white tub with […]
Navigating Global Polymer Volatility in Your Supply Chain In the commercial packaging sector, supply chain stability is just as critical as the quality of the containers and films you run on your lines. At SystemPak, we pride ourselves on straightforward, transparent communication with our clients, especially when global market shifts impact local production costs. If […]
