The Smart Cooker is a green, monolayer polypropylene tray that contains two pouches: one with Borden’s Classico® sauce and the other with cooked pasta. The consumer opens both pouches and combines them in the tray prior to micro-waving.
Although he wouldn’t divulge specifics on the packaging process, Rod Simpson, manager of packaging development at the Cleveland, OH-based company, did say that both pouches are made of high-barrier film laminations that include ethylene vinyl alcohol for barrier. Curwood (Oshkosh, WI) provides the materials. A perforated tear strip on the seal area of the sauce pouch simplifies opening and pouring. Both pouches are filled on vertical form/fill/seal equipment at a Borden manufacturing facility in Northbrook, IL.
