Key Applications

Disposable Food Container Production (Takeaway Trays, Pie Plates)
8011-O is used for producing disposable food containers, such as takeaway trays, pie plates, and other food service items. The high formability of foil makes it capable of being deep-drawn into intricate shapes and providing food with a moisture, oxygen, and light protective barrier, which extends the product's shelf life and keeps it fresh.

Lidding Foil for 45 cm Containers

The 45 cm wide foil is ideal for lidding. It can be heat sealed or coated in order to provide an airtight seal on yogurt cups, pudding containers, dairy product lids and ready to eat meal trays. The O temper's softness ensures that it conforms well to the rim of the container. Additionally, the O temper is compatible with a variety of heat seal coatings (e.g., PE, PP, EAA), allowing for custom sealing.

Kitchen or Commercial Kitchen Wrapping

Both in homes and professional kitchens, 8011-O foil 45cm is a vital product for the following purposes:

Baking and Roasting – Lining Baking Trays to Prevent Food Sticking & Simplifying Clean-Up

Food Storage – Covering Bowls, Wrapping Leftovers, & Freezing Food Portions

Grilling and Barbecuing – Protecting Food from Direct Heat & Keeping Food Moist

Catering Operations – Wrapping Prepared Foods for Transportation in Large Quantities

Benefits of the Specification

Convenient Size for Container Forming Machines

The 45cm (450mm) width is ideally sized for many types of container forming machines and packaging lines. The need for secondary slitting is reduced so that less wasted material and processing time are experienced. For commercial kitchens and catering operations, this width easily accommodates standard size baking sheets, steam table pans and takeaway container molds.

Soft Temper for Easy Shaping and Sealing

The softness of the O temper enables quick and easy wrapping, folding, and shaping of foil for both manual and automated applications as employees do not need to use excessive force to wrap, fold and/or shape foil. In automated packaging lines, consistent foil thickness and flatness reduces web breaks and downtime, improving overall production efficiency. The soft temper of the foil results in reliable heat sealing creating secure closures which maintain food freshness.

Foil for Flexible Packaging

8011-O foil is a fundamental material used in many flexible packaging forms, providing the foil’s primary material for multilayer packaging laminate structures that utilize an array of other materials such as PET, BOPP, PE, CPP and paper with either gravure or extrusion laminating process methods for flexible multi-layer and other food product packaging designs.

Advantages of Flexible Packaging

8011-O foil has near-zero transmittance properties to moisture, oxygen, light and aroma, making it an ideal material to be utilized in the design and production of modern food packaging systems where long shelf life is required. Primed surface of the foil is well suited for the application of high-quality images through the use of gravure printing processes and the printed product is consistent with other substrates that utilize an assortment of different types of products from snack products to protective products.

8011-O foil combines formability, barrier performance and food safety for a variety of flexible packaging uses. The soft temper is easily formed and sealed, and the material can be produced at a width of 45 cm (17 3/4”). These properties provide design flexibility and functionality for use in households, catering businesses and industry. Combined with the foil's heat resistant properties and strength, 8011-O foil can be used for cooking, baking and freezing. The compatibility of 8011-O foil with flexible multilayer packaging provides design flexibility and function across all flexible multilayer packaging, beyond just use as basic wrappings.

HTMM is one of the leading manufacturers of aluminum foil and supplies high quality 8011-O foil primarily used in food package and catering.

Using only high purity aluminum ingots (99.7% or greater purity), and utilizing advanced rolling mills (to produce consistent thickness) and annealing technology (for further softening), HTMM consistently provides the highest quality aluminum foil.

HTMM can provide small retail and large industrial rolls, with reasonable prices and reliable global shipping, on any size project with any specification.