Answers to buyers' questions

Choose a clamshell if you have no sealing machine and want a lid shoppers can reopen; choose a heat-seal punnet if your line has a tray sealer and...

Work through six points: the fill weight your buyer wants, the closure your packing line can handle (clamshell or heat-seal), a depth that holds...

A custom pack goes from brief to production in five steps: you share the product, a sample or drawing, the case count and your packing line; the...

It depends on the job. Paper (moulded fibre) trays are low-cost, absorb moisture and are compostable, but they are opaque, weaken when wet and are...

A punnet is a small retail pack for soft fruit and vegetables such as berries, grapes and cherry tomatoes. AVI's rPET punnets run from 125 g (4.4...

A tamper-evident container shows clearly if it has been opened: a tab, band or hinge lock breaks on first opening and cannot be reset. A...

A clamshell is a one-piece pack whose lid is joined to the base by a hinge, so it snaps shut and can be reopened. Thermoformed from clear rPET,...

For retail, cherries go in vented clamshells or heat-seal punnets that protect the stems and let the fruit breathe. AVI's rPET options are the PNG...

Fresh herbs, microgreens and edible flowers are sold in clear, rigid clamshells that stop the leaves being crushed. AVI's rPET options run from...

Stone fruit is sold in clamshells with cups for 2 or 4 pieces, or loose in larger clamshells and flowpack trays. AVI's rPET options include the...

The holes are vents. Fresh fruit keeps breathing after harvest, giving off heat, moisture and carbon dioxide; vents let that out so condensation...

It depends on the pack. A 250 g PNG 250 / 75 clamshell packs 1,225 to an export carton with 23 cartons per pallet; a flat A-30 / 45 heat-seal...

It depends on the pack. For AVI's 250 g PNG 250 / 75 clamshell, a 40 ft container takes 629,650 pieces on pallets (23 cartons per pallet, 1,225...

AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) is a customs programme that recognises secure, compliant exporters and importers. In India it is run by the...

In MAP, the air in a food pack is replaced with a protective gas mix before the pack is sealed with a barrier film. Carbon dioxide slows bacteria...

MAP (modified atmosphere packaging) trays are sealed with a barrier lidding film after the air inside is replaced with a protective gas mix, which...

Ready-to-eat pomegranate arils are sold in shallow heat-seal trays or tamper-evident cups. AVI's rPET options are the TBT 103 147 trays (TBT 103...

A hinged-lid container is a one-piece tray and lid joined by a hinge, so it closes without a separate lid. AVI makes them in rPET for salads, cut...

Retail dry fruits and nuts are packed in clear hinged containers that close firmly and show the product; gift packs use compartment trays. AVI's...

Bakeries use clear, hinged PET containers that show the product and protect decoration. AVI makes rPET bakery containers from small single-pastry...

Single-serve salads usually go in 16–32 oz containers, family and food-service packs in 48–64 oz. AVI's rPET salad packs include the on-the-go AT...

Cut fruit keeps best in a closed, clear pack that limits moisture loss and handling. AVI's tamper-evident clamshells (from the TE 300 / 8oz to the...

Clear PET and rPET punnets and clamshells are recyclable: they are resin code 1, the same plastic as drink bottles. Whether yours is collected...

No. Standard PET and rPET packs, such as clamshells, punnets and salad containers, are made for chilled and room-temperature food. PET starts to...

A blister machine heats a plastic film (usually PVC or PET) and forms it into cavities, the product is dropped in, and a lidding foil or printed...

Weight = area × thickness × density. In practice, grams per square metre = thickness in microns × density in g/cm³. APET is about 1.33–1.35 g/cm³,...

Since January 2023 Spain taxes non-reusable plastic packaging at €0.45 per kilogram of non-recycled plastic, including packaging brought into...

AVI's rPET sheet is graded to order from 30% to 100% recycled content. The content is documented by EN 15343 recycled-content traceability...

Yes. PET (resin code 1) is one of the most widely recycled plastics: clear PET bottles, and increasingly trays and punnets, are collected and...

Yes, when the recycled PET comes from a decontamination process approved for food contact. AVI produces its food-grade rPET with Starlinger deCON...

Both work. PVC is the long-standing blister film for medicines: it forms and seals easily, and AVI makes it as the AVI Blis grade for...

High-barrier films are multi-layer films that block oxygen and moisture, so sensitive food keeps its taste, colour and shelf life. A typical...

ESD-safe packaging protects electronic parts from electrostatic discharge by letting static charge drain away slowly instead of sparking....

Food-grade plastic is plastic approved for contact with food under set conditions: the right food type, temperature and time, with migration into...

A blister pack is a formed plastic cavity (the blister) sealed to a backing: aluminium foil for tablets and capsules, or printed board for retail...

EN 15343 is the European standard for traceability of recycled plastics: it sets how a recycler tracks material from collection to finished...

Ocean-bound plastic (OBP) is plastic waste collected before it reaches the sea: abandoned waste within about 50 km of a coastline, in areas...

rPET is recycled polyethylene terephthalate: PET bottles and packs that have been collected, sorted, washed, flaked and made into new material....

For clear food and produce packaging, PET (APET or rPET) is the usual best choice: it forms well, is food-safe, stiff and widely recycled. PETG...

All four are PET (polyethylene terephthalate) sheet. APET is clear amorphous PET for punnets, trays and blisters; PETG is PET modified with...

PET (polyethylene terephthalate, resin code 1) and PVC (polyvinyl chloride, resin code 3) are both clear, rigid sheets used for thermoforming,...

Rigid packaging keeps its shape whether full or empty: trays, punnets, clamshells, bottles and blisters. Flexible packaging changes shape with its...

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) replaces the EU packaging directive with rules that apply directly in every member state:...

The UK Plastic Packaging Tax, in force since 1 April 2022, is charged per tonne on plastic packaging made in or imported into the UK that contains...

Thermoforming heats a plastic sheet until it softens, pulls or presses it over a mould with vacuum or air pressure, then cools and trims it. It...

Thermoforming PET sheet is specified in microns. AVI Global Plast extrudes it in India: APET from 200 to 1,200 microns (±5%), GAG PET from 150 to...

AVI's 1-pint packs are the PNG 253 / 43, a low strawberry clamshell of 190 × 115 × 43 mm (13 g, also used for 300 g), and the PNG 125 / 69, a...

AVI makes kiwi punnets for 2, 3 and 5 fruit: the PNG 250 / 55 holds 2 kiwis, the PNG 300 / 60 (115 × 115 × 60 mm) and PNG 600 / 56 hold 3, and the...

US berry and produce clamshells are named by the weight of fruit they hold. In AVI's rPET range: 4.4 oz (125 g) PNG 108 / 40, 108 × 108 × 40 mm;...

AVI makes three kinds of 500 g pack: hinged clamshells for grapes (PNG 501 / 80, PNG 501 / 85, PNG 501 / 90), heat-seal punnets for berries,...

AVI makes two avocado clamshells: the PNG 250 AV for a single fruit (128 × 94 × 67 mm, 11 g) and the PNG 400 AV for two (162 × 122 × 67 mm, 18 g)....

125 g is the same as 4.4 oz, the standard blueberry pack. AVI's 4.4 oz packs are the PNG 108 / 40 (108 × 108 × 40 mm, 9 g) and PNG 125 / 34 (130 ×...

Mushrooms are usually sold on an open tray over-wrapped with film. AVI's rPET mushroom trays share one 175 × 125 mm footprint in three depths: the...

Cherry tomatoes are packed in 250 g, 1 pint, 11 oz, 450 g and 500 g packs. AVI makes the 250 g PNG 250 / 75 and PNG 600 / 51 clamshells, the...

AVI's rPET egg trays hold 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25 or 30 eggs, with a 12-egg quail tray and a 6 × 2 tear-off tray as well. The 12-egg tray measures...

Strawberry packs are sold by fruit weight. AVI's rPET range covers 190 g (PNG 190 / 55), 220 g (PNG 220 / 60), 225 g (PNG 400 / 40), 240 g (PNG...

AVI's 1 kg grape clamshells are the PNG 501 / 126 (190 × 115 × 126 mm, 31 g) and PNG 501 / 135 (190 × 115 × 135 mm), and the wider PNG 750 / 125...

AVI's apple clamshells are the PNG 420 APL 2PC for 2 apples, the PNG 1500 / 65 (155 × 155 × 65 mm) and PNG 3000 / 4CP (185 × 185 × 75 mm) for 4,...

For 250 g, AVI's standard pack is the PNG 250 / 75: a hinged rPET clamshell, 128 × 94 × 75 mm, weighing 9 g, documented for cherry tomatoes,...