Chilled Food

Paperboards for chilled ready meals

Popular throughout Europe and gaining momentum around the world, the chilled ready meal is known as a fresh alternative to processed or frozen foods. Traditionally, chilled meals have been offered in trays of CPET plastic or aluminium, sealed with film then labeled or put into a paperboard sleeve.

Unlike traditional formats, trays made from MWV paperboard can be printed with high quality graphics to enhance the presentation of the meal, strengthen the freshness perception and improve the in-home meal experience. This also creates opportunities to reduce the outer sleeve while maintaining a winning face to the shopper.

MWV paperboard products for chilled food packaging offer renewable fiber-based paperboard tray options that are sealable, dual ovenable and can maintain rigidity and strength during cooking. In the United Kingdom and the European Union, where choice of packaging material can affect environmental impact labeling and taxes, using renewable, recyclable materials like paperboard for chilled ready meals can make a substantial impact to your brand and your bottom line.

For outstanding performance in chilled food packaging, we recommend our high-quality paperboards including:

Dual ovenable paperboard for trays

• MWare® Paperboard for Pressed Trays: create a wide variety of appealing shapes and sizes to enhance the product presentation on the shelf and in the home
• Printkote® Ovenable Paperboard: deliver great graphics and reliable high speed throughput on Traytite and similar high speed fold, fill and seal tray systems
• Printkote® Release Paperboard: provide outstanding non-stick performance for bake and serve applications
  

Paperboard for lids and sleeves

• Printkote® Paperboard: differentiate your premium range with outstanding graphics on one side while communicating an origin of supply story on the backside  
• Custom Kote® Paperboard: deliver durability and graphic appeal with this tear resistant, natural brown back product,  which is well suited for damage-prone windowed applications and post pasteurization processes  
• Printkote® Poly Paperboard: extra moisture protection with a full variety of LDPE coating finishes
• Printkote® HMR Paperboard: you won’t believe it’s paperboard with its extreme moisture resistance 

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• Custom Kote® Paperboard
  

  Custom Kote® is a high-performing coated natural kraft (CNK) paperboard. The coated side provides an excellent surface on which to create shopper stopping graphics. The unbleached, uncoated side delivers consumers a clean, all natural perception, and realistic graphics. In between the two surfaces are tough, hard-working natural and recycled fibers engineered for outstanding performance in stressful environments throughout the supply chain, such as freeze-thaw cycles.

• KlaFold® Paperboard
  

  KlaFold® is a high-quality, coated unbleached kraft paperboard with low-density, high-yield characteristics that provide outstanding strength and durability. KlaFold offers superior printing and converting performance due to its exceptional smoothness and consistency. USFDA and ISEGA compliance make this product ideal for most direct and indirect food contact applications, as well as for cartons and packages of all types.

• MWare® Paperboard for Pressed Trays
  

  MWare® paperboard for pressed trays mean you can produce fiber-based trays that offer an alternative to molded plastics. Our MWare paperboard for pressed trays is renewable, printable, sealable and offers a wide range of functional enhancements for meals eaten on-the-go or those that travel from freezer to oven to table.

• Printkote® HMR Paperboard
  

  Printkote® HMR (High Moisture Resistance) paperboard offers exceptional moisture resistance for packaging that needs to endure the rigor of multiple freeze-thaw cycles throughout the cold chain.

• Printkote® Ovenable Paperboard
  

  Eliminate the expense of excess packaging with one versatile container. Printkote® Ovenable makes it possible to go from the freezer shelf to the conventional or microwave oven and then to the table.

• Printkote® Paperboard
  

  Offering versatility and cost-effectiveness in food packaging applications, Printkote® paperboard meets the needs of today’s discriminating brand owners with a warm-white, glossy coated side for exceptional printability, and a uniform, smooth white uncoated back.

• Printkote® Poly Paperboard
  

  Ideal for food packaging applications where moisture barrier, grease resistance or heat sealability is required. Printkote® Poly paperboard offers a warm white finish that can be coated on one or both sides with low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in a variety of finishes including clear, black, matte, satin, and gloss.

• Printkote® Release Paperboard
  

  Reduce costs by baking and serving food in a single, printable container. Printkote® Release paperboard for bakery packaging is dual ovenable (conventional and microwave) and can be formed into a variety of configurations to address the needs of in-store and institutional bakeries.