ANL Plastics Packaging shaping your ideas!

ANL plastics develops and manufactures thermoformed plastic packaging, providing answers to the most diverse packaging puzzles through tailor-made solutions. Besides, ANL Plastics offers a standard range of packaging for particularly the retail market, specifically for fresh food and the biscuits and chocolate industry.

Throughout the years, this family owned company, founded in 1938, has become a standard in the European market. Based on family foundations, the company employs over 400 people having gathered a considerable amount of technical and market know-how. Headquartered in Wellen, Belgium, with a second production site in Cahors, France, ANL Plastics manufactures over 2 billion thermoformed trays per annum, representing about 70 million Euro turnover. The company is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and BRC certified.

“ANL Plastics' groundbreaking PIRAMYDÒ cake packaging is an innovative concept for the pastry industry. ”
-ANL Plastics

A wide range of packaging

Biscuits, chocolate and ice cream: this product range specializes in bespoke and standard packaging for biscuits, chocolate and ice cream applications. Fresh food, fish and meat: this division manufactures packaging for the meat, fish, catering, and vegetable and fruit industry. Non-food: within this division, all packaging is created to offer solutions for the high-tech industry. This concerns packaging for internal transport, impact sensitive products, technical parts, consumer goods and cosmetics.

ANL Plastics created a number of innovative thermorformed packaging concepts of their own:

PIRAMYDÒ -a window on quality

ANL Plastics' groundbreaking PIRAMYDÒ cake packaging is an innovative concept for the pastry industry. The pack consists of a cardboard base and a transparent plastic lid, which are sealed together. The minimalist design provides a contemporary look.

The combination of 50% cardboard and 50% plastic affords optimal product protection and makes for perfectly stackable pack. Product visibility is also enhanced by means of the crystal-clear plastic lid.

PIRAMYDÒ packaging comes in several dimensions. This cake packaging can be produced in two standard prints as well as personalized, made-to-order print on orders for 10,000 packs or more. The wide PIRAMYDÒ range also includes thermoformed inserts, designed to keep the products in place.

The main target group for this concept are the industrial bakeries who supply to supermarkets, but also artisan bakers can use PIRAMYDÒ packaging. Market leaders in distribution in Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and France have been quick to include the PIRAMYDÒ packaging in their product assortment.

VisiOpacÒ - ANL Plastics' answer to convenience and shelflife

With the VisiOpacÒ, a patented dome pack which seals base and lid hermetically, ANL Plastics responds to the increasing demand for convenience food. This MAP application has grown into a vast range, which is available for different applications.

The VisiOpac^Ò pack perfectly protects and presents dishes such as complete ready meals, pastry, poultry, fish and salads. The dome pack is hermetically closed by means of a sealing ring, a technique without restrictions in height of the total pack. The sealing ring can be printed any way the customer desires. The consumer is certain he has purchased an optimally preserved dish.

On top of that, the VisiOpac^Ò concept easily opens and recloses. The pack can be used for cold and warm preparations and may be put in the microwave oven once opened. The pack can be made of PET or PP, which allows easy recycling because of the use of mono materials.

A popular version of this concept is the VisiOpac^Ò ALU. In this case the concept consists of a smoothwall aluminium base with a PET lid and a printable sealing ring. The dishes packed in this version can be cooked in the aluminium foil tray in a traditional oven as well as in a microwave oven. Thus, ANL Plastics offers possibilities for the ready meal and ready to cook trend.

In the VisiOpac^Ò range, ANL Plastics developed packs for grilled chicken. With this, the company responds to the trend of ready meals to be reheated in the microwave oven. For a salad catering company, ANL Plastics developed a square tray with a very attractive design, in which salads can be kept fresh for a long period.

Cubb-xÒ: your product in the showroom

ANL Plastics announces a new development with a fresh look at transparent product packaging: Cubb-x® thermoformed packaging.

For 2010, ANL Plastics forecasts a prominent presence of the Cubb-x® blister. Thanks to its specific design, the Cubb-x® box offers a revolutionary alternative in the world of the familiar blister pack for wholesale distribution.

The striking sleek design, without disturbing grooves and distortions, creates crystal-clear areas on all sides of the packaging and ensures optimal visibility and presentation of the packaged product. The slick shape guarantees rigidity, optimal stacking and maximum facing on the shelf. A band or label provides the necessary product information and is easy to attach. Thanks to this, the image of quality and exclusivity is reinforced.

The cover and base form one whole. As a result, a packaging is created that is user-friendly and economically viable throughout the whole distribution chain. The Cubb-x® box is not only easily transportable and can be quickly and efficiently filled, it also offers the consumer a strong, properly closed unit with optimal ease of use concerning storage and removing the contents.

The packaging is suitable for food in deep freezers and the cooling compartment, dry biscuits and chocolate, and for non-food articles such as toys, gifts, etc. Because the Cubb-x® packaging has a neutral appearance, the contents can come fully into their own and the user can create an impression that perfectly matches the contents.

The standard model is made from APET. For pastries and other moisture-containing products an anti-fog treatment is provided.

ANL Plastics stands for:

• Tailor-made creativity
• Innovation
• In house mould manufacturing
• in house sheet extrusion
• Elaborate state-of-the-art machinery
• Know-how: the reference in thermoforming
• Long term relationships with customers and suppliers