Ampac Pull Tabtm a Success in the Marketplace

Ampac Pull TabTM a Success in the Marketplace

1888 PressRelease - Ampac has recently delivered the Ampac Pull TabTM beverage pouch to the marketplace with great success. Ampac's Pull Tab beverage pouch provides an alternative format to the traditional straw-punch through beverage pouch.

Ampac, the world's leader in creative packaging solutions, has recently delivered the Ampac Pull TabTM beverage pouch to the marketplace with great success.

Ampac's Pull Tab beverage pouch provides an alternative format to the traditional straw-punch through beverage pouch. It is a new beverage pouch to the European and North American beverage market which provides hygienic protection of the straw hole with a tear away Pull Tab label. The premade hole on the pouch body, covered by the label that is applied by fully automatic label dispensers, is novel for this application. It combines innovative packaging with technology to enhance marketing and allows for hot filling on start-up machines as well as high-speed lines. The Ampac Pull Tab label can be custom designed, allowing for printing on the label which is a great way to enhance the marketing message or branding and share new information in an attractive way.

Some unique features and benefits of the Pull Tab beverage pouch include enhanced convenience in the "smart" opening of the pull tab as a result of the straw being glued on the label. By removing the straw, the label gets "pre-opened" at the same time and therefore the opening of the tab is facilitated versus "piercing" through the pouch membrane as in other beverage pouches. A stopper on the label is in place to prevent it from detaching completely from the pouch, creating an option to re-close the label if the pouch is not fully consumed.

Another advantage to food manufacturers includes the option of larger straw hole diameters as the straw no longer has the function of piercing the laminate as with existing beverage pouches, therefore larger diameters are...