Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 23 2019 | Page 48

Essentra’s RE:CLOSE™ delivers freshness, convenience and promotions in one tape RE:CLOSETM from Essentra Tapes is Once opened, a pack can be resealed leading the way in adding user-friendly using the RE:CLOSETM Tape, securing reclosability to bagged snacks on-shelf the contents and helping to ensure their across Europe, helping delivering portion freshness. control and maintain freshness, as well as proving the ideal means to deliver the latest on-pack promotions and campaigns. This increases convenience, retains branding in the home to encourage repeat purchase and can even enhance environmental credentials by minimising Durable enough to withstand food waste caused by spillage or leaving resealing and reclosing up to 10 times, a pack open. RE:CLOSETM Tape meets the demand for consumer choice in providing portion control functionality to multi-serving packs as it allows consumers to keep the snacks or food product in the original pack between each use. And with its high-impact print it delivers the latest promotional campaigns and messaging direct to consumers’ fingertips – all without the costly need to change the overall pack’s graphics. The high impact, user-friendly design of the RE:CLOSE Tape also features step-by-step instructions on how to use the reclosing functionality and is easily applied to production lines through its linerless solution and range of applicators provided with end-to-end support. Ian Beresford, Head of Marketing and Development at Essentra Tapes, notes: “Our RE:CLOSETM Tape allows brands to bring together portion choice with “This combination of consumer choice and convenience, together with the ability to deliver promotional communications and on shelf stand-out, delivers exceptional value to packaging. We have received substantial interest from snack brands across Europe and beyond with the complete solution provided by our RE:CLOSE™ Tape.” The wide resealable tape incorporates the consumer convenience of reclosing an easy-to-use finger lift area that runs the original pack, whilst simultaneously along both sides of its length, making it providing the opportunity to easily Essentra simple to lift away from the pack. integrate highly effective and eye- www.essentra.com catching promotions or campaigns within their pack designs. 48 FDPP - www.fdpp.co.uk