OPTIMIZING THE SEALING PROCESS OF A PAPERBOARD PACKAGE

摘要：

The importance of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is growing rapidly. By using MAP the selling time of a food product can be significantly lengthened without using preservatives. Longer selling time reduces the logistic costs and CO2-emissions caused by the product.MAP causes strict tightness requirements to the sealing process of the package. The most critical sealing factors of a plastic coated paperboard package are sealing time, sealing pressure and sealing temperature. Additionally, a deciding factor is the surface quality of the sealing area. Unsuccessful sealing causes leaks in the package. This causes unwanted changes in the modified atmosphere and thus the food to contaminate prematurely. In this work the optimal sealing parameters for a paperboard package are defined and presented. This optimization is an efficient way to reduce the cycle time of the sealing and generate cost advantage to the packaged product.

关键词： Paperboard modified atmosphere packaging MAP sealing

作者: V. Leminen M. Kainusalmi J. Varis

作者单位: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lappeenranta University of Technology,P.O.Box 20, 53851 Lappee Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O.Box 20, 53851 Lappe

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第二十届国际生产研究大会

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-4

在线出版日期: 2009-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）