Food Packaging Built Around the Application

It depends on what the cup has to do. PET gives the clearest, most rigid wall and lets the drink colour read through, but standard PET is generally not intended for microwave heating. PP tolerates heat and is the usual direction where the package may be heated, at some cost to clarity. Frozen handling and drop toughness can pull the decision the other way again. The practical answer is to decide from the material grade and the finished package rather than from the material name alone.

Cup and lid compatibility is a system decision, not a two-part lookup. Rim-locking tolerance, the sealing film if one is used, denesting behaviour on automated filling lines, the temperature the package travels at and the way a filled cup is handled all move together. A lid that holds on the filling line can still leak after a cold-chain run if the tolerance stack was never checked against the actual cup caliber. That is why compatibility is evaluated against the production flow and the end use, not against the cup in isolation.

The more of these you can send, the more useful the first answer is: the product family, the material direction or a shortlist, the dimensions, any barrier or sealing requirement, the custom print you want, the volume you are planning, and the destination market. Where a field is unknown, send what you have and we confirm the gaps rather than guessing at them. The RFQ checklist walks through the same list in order.

Yes — custom development is what the customization route is for. Standard cup calibers of 90 mm, 95 mm, 98 mm and 117 mm exist as starting points, and custom multi-colour offset and flexo printing runs up to eight colours. Containers are custom thermoformed and injection-moulded. Where a new mould is required, the route runs through material selection, engineering, sampling and validation before production planning.

It depends on the material the package is made from, and the range should always be confirmed for the specific grade and the finished package. As reference points from our own range: PP container grades are listed as microwave-safe from -20 °C to 120 °C, and CPET is listed as dual-ovenable from -40 °C to 220 °C. Microwave suitability should not be assumed from the material name alone — the grade and the finished package need to be designed and validated for the intended heating conditions.

Compliance depends on the product, the material and the market, so we confirm which documents and testing route apply to your specific specification instead of applying one generic claim to every line. Send the product application, the food type, the contact time and temperature, the target market, and the dimensions or sealing requirements, and we will confirm what is available for that route.