Screw caps for cartons

SIG Combibloc’s combiSwift screw cap is now also available for food carton packs. This screw cap offers convenience when opening carton packs and when pouring and portioning out long-life foods such as soups, sauces, tomato products and desserts. Because the carton packs can be reclosed, the products are still protected after initial opening.

The food carton packs are aimed for more viscous products that also have a higher free-fat content. Hanno Bertling, global product manager for opening solutions at SIG Combibloc, says, “When handling products such as sauces and soups containing chunks of meat or vegetables, stocks with a higher free-fat content, chunky tomatoes or thicker desserts, an easy-to-use and recloseable screw cap is hugely practical, and it gives an added benefit for food manufacturers, also; with this extra feature, the products are clearly differentiated from competing packaging on the sales shelf, and grab the interest of consumers to whom our combiSwift offers a high degree of additional convenience.”

combiSwift made its market debut in 2006. The closures were initially applied to carton packs for milk and dairy products.