Flexible food can

Hoogoven Packaging Steel (Ijmuiden, the Netherlands), with Stork Food and Dairy Systems, has developed a concept for a flexible food can. Called Le Carr/, the 3-pc tinplate can has a square shape, stiff ribs and a thin body to make the can flexible.

Because the can flexes, build up of internal pressure is minimized during retorting. Consequently, can materails can be downgauged.

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