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Advanced vapor vacuum capping technology

With co-packer assistance, major salsa producer embraces new metal cap to PET jar sealing system to reduce package damage and freight costs.

The filled PET jars are placed in corrugated trays, shrink-wrapped and palletized for shipment.
The filled PET jars are placed in corrugated trays, shrink-wrapped and palletized for shipment.

MegaMex Foods, Orange, CA, a joint venture of Hormel Foods and Herdez del Fuerte, S.A. de CV, processes and packages Mexican food products under a range of familiar brand names from Chi-Chi’s® and Del Fuerte® to La Victoria®.

The La Victoria® brand recently has made some notable packaging changes for its salsas and sauces to enhance transportation efficiencies and consumer convenience. Glass packaging has served La Victoria® well and continues to be an important part of its packaging repertoire. But the company has acknowledged the weight and shatter-resistant advantages of PET over glass for some product applications.

In July 2016, the first La Victoria® salsa was converted from glass to hot-fill PET. The company is working with California’s largest food processor, Olam Spices and Vegetable Ingredients, Fresno, CA, who hot-fills the 24-oz a-pex™ PET containers supplied by Amcor. The two-stage blown and trimmed bottles incorporate a vacuum-absorbing base and get a pre-coat and post-coat of silicon oxide prior to filling. The empty bottles weigh 51 grams compared to their glass counterparts at 364 grams. Olam was key in helping deliver the expertise to solidly marry the PET jars and the steel caps.

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