
Pre-cooked foods
(retort pouch)
Curry
Curry, Stew, Chowder, etc.
- Pouches for foods with a strong aroma like curry sometimes apply an Alu layer in order to preserve their aroma and flavor. Delamination between BOPA film and adhesive often occurs in pouches with Alu, so laminating with adhesive BOPA film is preferable.
- Straight and easily cut film helps to pour the heated curry or other contents into other dishes easily.

Market trends
- Packaging:
- Stand up pouch, Four-sided seal pouch
- Properties:
- Strong adhesion, Straight and easily cut
Soups
Corn potage, Tom Yam Kung,
Nabe soup, etc.
- Stand up pouches have been used as alternatives to metal cans because of their flexibility and light weight. High gas barrier property and toughness are important for these pouches in order to prevent oxidations of contents and leaks. Robust barrier coating layer is particularly important for the bottom material because folds are more likely to happen at the bottom than any other part.

Market trends
- Packaging:
- Stand up pouch, Four-sided seal pouch
- Properties:
- Oxygen barrier, Strength and Toughness
Corn
Corn
- Maintaining a vacuum on an uneven, curved surface such as sweet corn has always been difficult. The flexibility of a barrier coating layer is important because of the mechanical load applied to the packaging during the vacuum process.

Market trends
- Packaging:
- Four-sided seal pouch
- Properties:
- Oxygen barrier
Vegetables
Cut vegetables, Rice, Potatoes, etc.
- Discoloration is an oxidation reaction that takes place in some foods, mostly vegetables. In order to prevent this, the pouch using a film with high oxygen barrier is highly effective.
- Pouches with strong pinhole resistance, flex durability and impact strength are required to prevent leaks.

Market trends
- Packaging:
- Stand up pouch, Four-sided seal pouch
- Properties:
- Oxygen barrier, Strength and Toughness
Ready-meals
Ready-meals
- Stand up pouches are the most common packaging for this kind of product.
Robust barrier coating layer is particularly important for the bottom material because folds are more likely to happen at the bottom than any other part. - Straight cut film is also sometimes used to prevent high-temperature liquid contents from spilling.

Market trends
- Packaging:
- Stand up pouch, Four-sided seal pouch
- Properties:
- Oxygen barrier, Straight cut