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Alcoa Flexible Packaging Wins Silver DuPont Packaging Award for Sure-Peel™ Lidding
Alcoa Flexible Packaging’s Sure-PeelTM Cohesive Lidding was awarded a Silver Packaging Award at DuPont’s Packaging Awards ceremony this past Friday. Alcoa’s Sure-Peel lidding is a patented cohesive peel material that separates seal integrity from actual peel force. This property allows for easier, consistent peels with high burst strength and provides a broader sealing window. The broader sealing window allows Sure-Peel lidding the ability to seal tightly under a wide range of sealing conditions, including product contamination in the seal area. The broader sealing window also expands the product applications of this extrusion-mounted specification to markets that have fluctuating packaging machinery sealing parameters. Sure-Peel lidding can now be utilized on salsa, hot fill apple juice, tomato sauce and garlic butter, since the structure is more forgiving. Sure-Peel lidding, a 1.5 mil Foil/DuPont Nucrel® Resin/1 mil patented film structure, is manufactured at Alcoa’s Bellwood Printing Plant in Richmond, Virginia. Sure-Peel lidding can be rotogravure or flexographically printed, using water-based or solvent ink technology. The Sure-Peel rollstock performs well on lidding converters’ printing and die-cutting equipment. Alcoa’s Sure-Peel lidding can be sealed to PP, PE, and ethylene copolymer containers.
Alcoa Flexible Packaging, based in Richmond, Virginia, manufactures a variety of packaging materials including extrusion and adhesive laminated pouch materials, overwraps and linerstock, blister lidding foil, thermoformed trays, cable wrap, plastic shrink sleeve labels, shrink film and converter foil. These packaging materials serve the world’s leading consumer products manufacturers within the pharmaceutical, medical, food & beverage, and industrial markets.
Alcoa is the world’s leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina, and is active in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoa’s businesses as a single solution to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components, Alcoa also markets consumer brands including Reynolds Wrap® aluminum foil, Alcoa® wheels, and Baco® household wraps. Among its other businesses are vinyl siding, closures, precision castings, and electrical distribution systems for cars and trucks. The company has 127,000 employees in 40 countries.
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