Application Selection Guide

GO-GREEN packaging offers a complete range of materials for today's rigid tray and lidding packaging requirements and upscale trends:

Ready Meals

GO-GREEN offers a complete range of high barrier packaging using the proprietary GO-GREEN manufacturing technology. The GO-GREEN process uses 30% less materials and 30% less energy, resulting in an effective green solution utilizing source reduction manufacturing principals. By using printed trays, source reduction is further enhanced by eliminating boxes, sleeves and labels.

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Steam Packaging

GO-GREEN offers a full range of trays and steam lidding films for fresh and high barrier applications. Steam-ready packaging is the package format of choice for brand owners looking to deliver that "gourmet" eating experience in under 5 minutes. For foods that lend themselves to steam cooking like fresh vegetables, certain fish and seafood, and ready meals GO-GREEN Steam packaging solutions deliver "next generation" cooking results by enhancing a food's natural flavor, texture, and nutritional profiles.

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Case Ready

GO-GREEN is an excellent solution for Case Ready packaging for fresh meat, poultry and seafood. It offers retailers many benefits including increased profitability, consistant product yield and the ability to outsource safety risk. It enables value added offerings with expanded category management programs.

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Fresh Produce & Seafood - Heat Sealable & Breathable

GO-GREEN is excellent for fresh produce and fresh seafood where breathable trays and lidding film is critical. GO-GREEN's packaging solutions are excellent for use in microwave and steam cooking. 10,000 OTR films are available for fresh seafood applications. OTR rates for produce films are also available.

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Retort

GO-GREEN offers high barrier polypropylene trays and printed barrier trays for extended shelf life retort applications. Trays are coextruded using symetric structures with PP sealant layers.

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High Pressure Pasteurization

GO-GREEN PP trays are designed to perform in High Pressure Pasteurization applications. The patented GO-GREEN manufacturing process ensures even material distribution that results in superior crush resistance of the trays. Sealed trays are placed in a specially designed chamber which is exposed to extreme pressure that eliminates potentiallly harmful bacteria

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Fresh Produce & Seafood - Over-Wrap

GO-GREEN Sugar Cane Trays from bagasse are an excellent solution For use with high speed overwrap equipment. The 100% compostable trays are an excellent alternative to foamed trays.

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Meals on Wheels

GO-GREEN offers a complete sealing system, including manual heat sealers, film and trays. It is excellent for small enterprises, test markets and central commissaries serving Meals on Wheels programs.

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