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Our CLAF® mesh fabric offers numerous solutions to packaging challenges all over the world. CLAF® provides packaging properties that translate to value, savings, and better performance:

• CLAF® processes easily using form/fill/seal, tubing or heat-seal equipment.
• CLAF® is the optimal packaging mesh design because it allows any material to breathe.
• Its unique tear strength offers flexibility and reliability in bag design through a combination of strong packaging and attractive designs.
• CLAF® heat seals easily, allowing for versatility. CLAF® laminates to poly film, paper or itself to create unique combinations for a high-performance packaging product.

Produce Bags

Major supermarket chains, retail stores and produce growers choose CLAF® mesh produce bags because CLAF® makes their products look better and last longer. 

CLAF® Mesh bags offer many benefits:

End-user benefits

• Consumers can now purchase goods that last longer. Fruits and produce breathe in CLAF® mesh bags releasing gases that trigger decay.
• End-users use one convenient bag – from the store to kitchen -- making storage easy and products safer
• Today’s sophisticated customers demand more information about what they are purchasing, and CLAF® film/produce bags offer a larger printing area while maintaining freshness.

Supermarket benefits

• Supermarkets must offer value and differentiated products to their customers. CLAF® bags – half-mesh and half-film - are an excellent tool for branding a particular name or product.
• CLAF® bags offer supermarkets the ability to present produce inventory that looks uniform and homogenous and to move produce in and out of shelves as promotions or demand changes.
• Supermarkets can reduce the spoilage that “poly-only” bags cause.  CLAF® bags save money by allowing the packaged product to breathe and live longer. To keep “good inventory” in shelves longer, use CLAF® mesh produce bags.

Producer Benefits

• Fruit, potato and produce producers prefer CLAF® mesh bags because they help distinguish their products on store shelves.
• CLAF® produce bags are very easy to fill in simple packaging machines. Producers can avoid huge investments in packaging equipment.
• CLAF®’s unique “flat – stand” profile translates into produce bags that keep product looking great – no damage. Its strands have no sharp edges that may cause indentation or scarring of the produce’s skin.

Manufacturers of CLAF® mesh bags include:

• Fox Packaging
• Volm Bag Company Inc.
• Form/Fill.Seal Packaging with CLAF® bags
• Carry-Fresh / NNZ in Italy, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and other European countries.

Citrus Bags

CLAF® mesh bags have demonstrated their superior benefits for packing citrus products such as oranges, limes, lemons and grapefruits vs. “poly-only” bags.

In an independent study commissioned to a leading university in the packaging field, CLAF® bags proved their superior respiration by outperforming “all-poly” bags during a five-week cooled storage test.

 CLAF® bags for citrus provide several options:

• Choice of eight different CLAF® colors for any brand or promotional need.
• Sizes from 1 lb. up to 20 lbs. for maximum customer choice.
• Choice of closure systems for packaging and customer convenience.

Flower Wraps for Bouquets

When a consumer wants to celebrate a special event, a birthday, an anniversary, nothing highlights this emotion more that a beautiful flower bouquet. Flower producers have learned that flower wraps are just as important as the flowers. Top suppliers worldwide choose CLAF® metallized mesh and soft MILIFE® nonwovens to wrap their bouquets.

CLAF® and MILIFE® Flower Wrap:

• Available in many metallized colors such as vivid red, green, gold and copper that enhance the appearance of any flower bouquet.
• Tailored to standard industry requirements, specialized converters provide CLAF® and MILIFE® flower wraps in convenient dimensions and packaging.
• MILIFE® nonwovens ultra smooth surfaces permit printing processes that offer a very wide variety of beautiful packaging finishing options.

Suppliers of CLAF® flower wraps for bouquets include www.decowraps.com.

Decorative and Luxury Packaging

High-priced luxury items require an attractive wrap. Luxury packaging scrims and nonwovens are an easy challenge for CLAF® and MILIFE®.

• CLAF® mesh and scrims are an innovative and a unique way to instill the “luxury look” to luxury bags.
• CLAF®’s attractive scrim pattern reflects exotic and appealing packaging material that can be transformed into luxurious bags, sachets, envelopes, and wraps.
• When the metallization process is applied to the wide array of colored CLAF® scrims, the result obtained are shiny glossy packaging materials that enhance the luxurious qualities of many products.

MILIFE® fabrics, on the other hand, are a distinctive collection of polyester nonwovens with exclusive texture, sheen and soft feel fabricated with exclusive proprietary technology.

• MILIFE®, the silky touch nonwoven, has a unique smooth surface making it appropriate for quality printing.
• MILIFE®’s fiber alignment produces a rich silk-like packaging that can be converted to bags, pouches or envelopes.
  

Potato Bags with CLAF® mesh insert

CLAF® brings the same advantages to window inserts that it does to mesh bags.

• Available in nine colors suitable for produce bags and other food packaging applications anywhere in the world.
  
• Processes easily in multi-wall paper bag lines.
  
• Mesh design keeps produce fresher by allowing ethylene gas to escape.