Packaging microwave foods

GE E-seminars (http //www. ge-plastics.com/resins/designsolutiony seminar/) GE s virtual conference center offers the ability to interact with GE Plastics real-time in live on-line conferences. E-Seminar examples include Material Selection, which provides the attendee with the knowledge, skills and competencies to determine how application requirements influence the material specification process and Materials for Single-Use Microwave Food Packaging, which reviews trends in the growing Freezer-to-Microwave Food Packaging industry. 

Multilayered materials can be readily formed using thermoforming including food packaging that may involve inclusion of layers of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers, PS, polyolefins, and/or copolymers of vinylene dichloride and vinyl chloride. Microwavable food trays from (crystallized) PET are manufactured using thermoforming. 

Begley, T.H., and Hollifield. H.C., 1990, Migration of Dibenzoate Plasticizers and Polyethylene Terephthalate Cyclic Oligomers from Microwave Susceptor Packaging into Food-Simulating Liquids and Food. Journal of Food Protection. Vol. 53, No. 12,1062-1066. 

A new generation of PLA materials that can withstand high temperatures and are suitable for microwavable food packaging. 

Begley, T.H. HoUifield, H.C. Migration of dibenzoate plasticizers and polyethylene terephthalate cyclic oligomers from microwave susceptor packaging into food-simulating liquids and foods. J. Food Prot. 1990, 53, 1062-1066. 

Everyone needs to eat, and in today s fast-paced world, we ve become accustomed to having safe, convenient, and nutritious food at our fingertips, ready to toss in the microwave. Food technologists help make nutrition in our fast-paced lifestyle more convenient by developing new ways to process, preserve, package, and store food. 

Ethylene vinyl alcohol is also used in production of plastic bottles, thermoform film and sheet, and flexible squeeze tubes. It is being experimented with for microwave food packaging applications, but this use is not yet commercial. It could, however, provide a large new market for EVOH if the application can be successfully demonstrated. 

Today SiC thin films (< 1 pm thickness) can also be produced by physical vapor deposition (PVD), for example by sputtering, which method allows lower substrate temperatures, but works more slowly. Electrically conductive B/N-doped sintered aSiC with up to 9weight-% free carbon has been developed as target material, [133]. Novel applications for PVDSiC include films for computer storage media, protective coating for lenses, and microwaveable packaging for food. 

The versatility of modified PPE resins has resulted in an extensive variety of applications which include automotive interior, exterior, and under-the-hood applications computer and business equipment electrical and electronic devices health care building and construction telecommunications appliances water handling equipment and microwavable food packaging. Noryl modified PPE resins have become the world s most successful and best-known polymer blends and alloys. 

Tokkyo Kaiho 16675, Packaging for microwavable foods, Fuji Seal Industries. 

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