Toray Plastics (America) Broadens LumiLid Film Platform

Published: September 20, 2013

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America) has installed new coating technology to enable the company to broaden its LumiLid brand polyester lidding film platform and respond to customers’ needs for advanced specialty lidding films. 

“The global market for lidding films is expanding,” says Milan Moscaritolo, senior director of sales, Toray Plastics (America). “…Barrier performance, economic value, and the availability of specialty lidding films in varying widths when they are needed afford customers a distinct competitive advantage.” Specific markets requiring such lidding, says Moscaritolo, include packaging for meat, produce, dairy items, refrigerated and frozen foods, puddings, applesauce, desserts, wet and dry foods, and specialty items is especially popular.

Company says LumiLid clear, white, and metallized lidding films provide excellent oxygen barrier, are FDA-compliant and dual-ovenable, are printable, and deliver an easy, clean peel. In addition, they offer what is said to be an environmentally friendly, solvent-free formulation and low seal initiation temperature, and supply a clean, secure seal, even on pleated corners, to APET, APET-coated board, CPET, PP, HDPE, and HIPS trays.

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