In Food Packaging, Peelable IML Serves as Tamper-Evident Seal

摘要

A novel concept proposed by two Canadian package designers is intended to save costs and container weight by replacing threaded flip-top closures and induction heat-sealed liners with a peelable in-mold label (IML) that acts as a tamper-evident seal. Stephen Robert and Bill Traynor, partners in KBS Impact Inc., Mississauga, Ont. (kbsimpact.com), have patented one version of this concept and have a patent pending on another. They call this approach "functional IML" or "FIML." They believe it has wide potential in applications such as non-daiiy creamers, nutritional-supplement drinks, ketchup, mustard, salad dressing, vitamins, OTC drugs, drink powders, bath crystals, bath soap, wide-mouth overcaps for yogurt and other spoon-able foods, gable-top containers with threaded closures for liquid foods, and even personal-care products in squeeze tubes. KBS Impact is looking for development partners to help commercialize applications or license the technology.