Technology:
Materials
makers are introducing new containers that extend the use-by date of foods.
Toyo Seikan Group, Japan’s largest container maker, developed a plastic container
that allows long-term preservation. Adopting multilayer coating of aluminum
foil and special film, the company successfully extended the use-day of content
from several months to three years, which is the used-by date realized by a metal
can. A leading supermarket chain adopted this container for its private brand corned
beef. Its corned beef contained in this plastic is 60% lighter than the
conventional canned corned beef, and it can be opened easily even by the
elderly.
Nippon Paper developed a recyclable drink box that allows preservation for several
months at normal temperature. Using film that prevents quality deterioration, the
company eliminated the necessity of aluminum foil required to prevent light
from penetrating. The new drink box has been adopted by a new vegetable drink
of Itoen, and it receives an inquiry from more than 10 drink vendors. Kuraray will
apply its EVOH resin excellent in interrupting oxygen to containers for prepared
foods. EVOH has about 7,000 times higher performance to interrupt oxygen. The
considerably higher interruption performance expands the use-by date of food. An
experiment verified that EVOH successfully expanded the use-by date by more
than three times.
Retailers,
wholesalers, and food makers are jointly working on the reduction of food
waste. A total of 35 companies involved in the food business introduced a new rule
to reduce returned foods last August. The government also backs up the efforts
to reduce food waste.
Prepared
foods in the container made of Kuraray’s EVOH
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