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PACKAGING

offsite bakeries or instore - clean
and clean-looking packaging
is the winning trend in today's
market, according to Dennis
Gunnell, vice-president of sales
and marketing for Woodinville,
Washington-based Formost Fuji.
"Bread bags are going to be
a clearer look, a cleaner look,"
Gunnell says. "People want to see
the product and feel good about
what's inside."
The added bonus of tamper
evidence without adding bulky
layers is available with ﬂow wrapping. Formost Fuji's horizontal
ﬂow wrappers and box-motion
sealers create clear seals on both
sides of the loaf. Machines in the
past fused several layers of material to create a seal that needed to
be torn apart to be opened. This
wrapper creates a transparent
seamless lock to the end of the
package that's easy to open.
Maysville, Oklahoma-based
Burford Corp., meanwhile, offers
its tape closure system for tamper
evidence and resealability. A
paper backing on the tape must
be torn for the bread back to
be opened, but consumers can

reuse the adhesive to close the
bag again. This extra layer of protection provides tamper evidence
without overpackaging.
"With the taper, the easy thing
about it, you see that you've broken the paper seal, and you have
the tape to reclose it," Burford's
Mitch Lindsey tells Baking &
Snack, a sister publication to
Supermarket Perimeter. "The easy
thing about the sealer is it's perforated, and it just zips right off."
Lindsey says that during the
packaging process, the thicker
the packaging material and faster
the line is moving, the higher the
heat the sealer must maintain.
He says Burford's tamper-evident
sealer retains higher heats to
keep production moving with its
upper and power manifolds and
ambient air intake system.
"Those three things help maintain whatever your setting may
be," he says. "If you're running
70 bags a minute on a 1.25 mm
bag, you may run 400°F, where
that same speed in a 1.5 mm bag
might take 450°F."
Ensuring a proper seal on a
bag ensures freshness through

The laser seal form Kwik Lok's 909A offers tamper evidence while the
bag can be resealed with a Kwik Lok closure.

the purchase of a product. But
once that seal is broken by a consumer, all steps taken to protect a
product from oxygen go out the
window. That's where reclosability comes in.
The Burford Tamper Evident
Closure (TEC) improves the

Burford's Tamper Evident Closure helps with security and safety with a non-contact sealing method.
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security and safety of products
using a "non-contact" sealing
method. The model TEC200 perforates the bag for easy opening,
and controls allow the operator
to make changes on the ﬂy. The
TEC200 may be used by itself or
with any Burford Servo Tyer for
an easy re-closure.
There are beneﬁts to different
kinds of closures, from heatsealed to twist ties to tape. Some
can get a tighter seal on a product with tamper evidence appeal,
while others offer a basic closure
that lends itself to resealability
and reuse.
Lindsey says the Burford twist
tie offers a tight closure that can
be reused on both polypropylene and polyethylene bags. The
gauge of the wire in the tie can
vary depending on the product
and bag material. The company's
tape closure system provides
tamper evidence and resealability. The tape's paper backing is
torn to open the bag, but consumers can reuse the adhesive to
close the bag again.
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