Folmi offers food-grade hoods designed to ensure safety in contact with food during storage and transport. Thanks to their special properties, our hoods meet all food industry requirements, guaranteeing protection against contamination, moisture, and mechanical damage. Food-grade hoods are ideal for the food industry, ensuring adequate protection and freshness of packaged goods.
Production Capabilities
Material: Our food-grade hoods are made from LDPE, HDPE, MDPE, and LDPE regranulate. These materials are characterized by high strength, flexibility, and compliance with food safety standards. The use of LDPE regranulate allows us to produce in a more environmentally friendly manner without compromising the quality of the hoods.
Hood Width: Hoods are manufactured with a circumference of up to 5400 mm, allowing them to fit a variety of pallet sizes, including non-standard ones, ensuring stability and protection for transported goods.
Hood Length: We offer hoods up to 3500 mm long, allowing for full product customization to the pallet height and type of packaged materials, ensuring effective protection in every situation.
Hood Thickness: Our hoods are available in thicknesses from 20 μm to 300 μm, allowing for the appropriate strength to be selected depending on the type of product being packaged – from delicate food items to heavier materials requiring additional protection.
Additives
To ensure the full functionality of our food-grade hoods, we offer a variety of additives that enhance their utility value:
UV – an additive that protects the hoods from harmful UV radiation, which is important when storing products in conditions exposed to sunlight, minimizing the risk of material degradation.
Dyes – the hoods can be dyed, facilitating product identification and storage organization, and supporting brand visual identification.
Anti-block, slip – a special additive that prevents the hoods from sticking together, significantly simplifying their use and speeding up product packaging processes.
Anti-slip – an anti-slip additive that ensures the hoods' stability on pallets, minimizing the risk of product shifting during transport, which is crucial for logistics safety.
ESD – an antistatic film that prevents electrostatic discharge, which is particularly important when packaging sensitive products.
Low-temperature elasticizer – an additive that ensures the hoods' flexibility even at very low temperatures (down to -29°C), which is Crucial for storing frozen or refrigerated products.
Flexo printing – hoods can be personalized with information such as the company logo, instructions for use, and markings, supporting product identification and increasing brand visibility.
Perforation – perforation improves air circulation, which is beneficial for products requiring ventilation, such as fresh vegetables and fruit, minimizing the risk of condensation.
Applications
Folmi's food-grade hoods are an excellent solution for protecting food products during storage and transport. Our hoods meet all safety and quality standards, ensuring complete protection of food from external factors and extending its freshness. Ideal for use in the food and processing industries, Folmi hoods are a reliable solution that ensures high-quality protection and compliance with legal requirements for food contact.
If you have any questions about our food-grade hoods, please contact us – we will be happy to advise you and tailor our products to your specific needs.
Production capabilities
Material | Hood Width | Hood Length | Hood Thickness | Additives |
|---|---|---|---|---|
LDPE, HDPE, MDPE, LDPE regranulate | up to a circumference of 5400mm | up to 3500mm | from 20µm to 300µm | UV, pigment, anti-block, slip, ESD, flexibilizer for low temperatures -29°C, flexo printing, perforation |
We can print or customize each product according to your needs. Learn more about our offer: flexographic printing.
Order Fulfillment Process
Order confirmation: Once all the details of the order have been agreed, the customer receives a final quotation for approval. Following its approval, the order is formally accepted for processing.
Print design verification: In the case of an order including a print, the customer receives the final graphic design for approval, which, once approved, is sent for production.
Release for production: Once the order has been confirmed and payment verified, the order details go to the production department, which begins the process of planning and execution.
Production of LDPE plastic: LDPE plastic is produced using an extrusion process. LDPE granulate is heated to a high temperature and passed through an extrusion head to produce a long, thin layer of plastic.
Plastic forming: Plastic may be formed in a number of manners as per the order – it may vary in transparency, coloured, thicknesses to match the customer’s specifications.
Preparation for printing: If the order is for printed bags, the production of plastic is followed by the process of flexographic printing. Matrices (printing forms) are prepared as per the customer-approved design.
Printing on plastic: the LDPE plastic is passed through flexographic machines, which apply the print as per the design. This technique allows designs to be printed quickly and precisely in a range of colours.
Cutting and forming of bags: After printing (or without printing), the LDPE plastic is confectioned, i.e. cut and formed into bags as per the dimensions agreed in the order.
Additional elements: At this stage elements such as handles, perforations may be added, depending on the order specifications.
Product packaging: The finished bags are carefully packed in larger packaging such as cardboard boxes or bulk bags to secure them from damage during transport.
Etykietowanie: Każda partia zamówienia otrzymuje odpowiednie oznaczenia i etykiety, które zawierają informacje o produkcie. Dodatkowo dołączane są dokumenty przewozowe i magazynowe.
Transport set-up: The order is forwarded to a courier company. The customer receives a tracking number and information on the expected delivery time.
Shipment tracking: The customer may track the consignment using a tracking system, which allows them to monitor where their order is at any given time.
Delivery of the order: Goods are delivered to the address indicated by the customer within the specified timeframe.