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Customisable retort pouches engineered for liquid, meat, dairy, and ready-to-eat meals requiring sterilisation and long shelf life.
Our retort pouches are built for brands that demand shelf stability, safety, and process efficiency. Designed to withstand high-temperature sterilisation (e.g., 121 °C and beyond), these multi-layer, high-barrier pouches preserve freshness and product integrity without the weight or rigidity of cans or jars. Ideal for ready-to-eat meals, soups, sauces, pet food and dairy, our retort packaging combines lightweight strength, robust seal integrity and full-surface printable laminates to deliver a reliable and efficient solution for modern production and distribution.
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Retort pouches deliver the same high level of product safety and freshness as cans or jars, but with far less weight and bulk. Their slim design saves storage space, reduces transport costs, and makes handling easier, all while maintaining the flavour, texture, and shelf life of your products.
Best Used as Food Packaging
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Meat & Seafood
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Soups & Sauces
Health & Wellness
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Today’s fast-paced lifestyles have increased the demand for lightweight, long-lasting packaging, especially for ready-to-eat meals. Retort pouches meet this need by offering durable, shelf-stable packaging for a wide variety of food products
With their lightweight design and compact shape, retort pouches help reduce freight and storage costs. They're also print-ready and retail-friendly, supporting high-impact branding while keeping production costs low.
Retort pouches are easy to open, store, and heat, making them ideal for soups, sauces, yoghurts, and baby food. Their lightweight format is not only microwave-friendly (where applicable) but also easier to handle than traditional cans.
From spouts and easy-tear notches to custom shapes and finishes, our retort pouches can be tailored to your specific product needs. We also offer hot-fill and aseptic processing options to help extend shelf life and product freshness.
Our retort pouches are designed to reduce packaging waste and environmental impact:
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Tell us about your product and packaging needs. A packaging specialist will be assigned to you as your dedicated account manager to help you throughout this process.
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Let’s get down to your packaging specifications. Once you approve our quotation, we proceed to your packaging design until you sign-off the final proof for production.
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Stay tuned for regular production updates from your sales support officer while you wait for delivery. We also help clients with logistics and shipping.
Email us at packaging@closetheloop.com for more information.
Let’s discuss your order details and packaging requirements.
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Contact our team today to explore custom retort pouch solutions built for performance, convenience, and environmental impact.
What is retort processing?
Retort processing is a sterilisation process for food packaging. This process involves the heating of food and packaging prone to microbial spoilage (such as meat or dairy-based products) to extend shelf-life and maintain product freshness. This type of thermal processing enables safe and effective shelf-stable foods that can be stored for long periods without the need for refrigeration or freezing.
How are retort pouches made?
Retort Pouches are made primarily as Stand Up Pouches or Flat Pouches, from laminated flexible plastic layers that can also include aluminium foil. They are created by aseptic processing and are designed to withstand over 121°C in a retort oven over a set period of time to eliminate all microbes that may be present. Retort pouches provide a similar level of product protection as your traditional tin can packaging.
What are the advantages of retort pouches over metal cans in food packaging?
Retort pouches are lighter in weight, reducing storage space and transportation costs. Retort Pouches can also be more child-friendly compared to metal cans, and are popular for baby food products. Retort packaging is leak-proof, and pouches containing an aluminium layer use only a fraction of the amount of material in comparison to can packaging (which can be cost-effective).
What are retort pouches commonly used for?
Retort pouches are commonly used for shelf-stable soups, sauces, baby food, dairy, and ready-to-eat (RTE) food products (such as pre-cooked meat products). Pet food is also commonly packaged in retort pouches , as wet pet food products often contain high amounts of protein/meat sources that need to be stored on the shelf for extended periods of time.
How do you use a retort pouch?
You can open retort pouches by hand, or by using scissors. Retort pouches will differ depending on the products contained inside, however the individual retort packaging itself will contain consumption instructions (such as eat meals from pouch, reheat product in the pouch itself, or remove and heat product separately).
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