Food

Champagne bottles and Tetra Paks, baby food jars and yogurt pots: Food comes in all kinds of packaging. Common to it all is that an attractive appearance leads to sales. Safety aspects must also be taken into account. That's where we come in: As a full-service provider and expert in label and surface finishing, we enhance your products with a fascinating look and new features.

Label Designs for Food Products

Feel. Functionality. Fascination.

Look and feel are sensual signals that make products interesting. The decision to purchase food depends largely on its visual appeal, be it packaged in cardboard, paper, plastic, jars or cans. We make sure your goods don’t go unnoticed by providing label designs that combine feel, functionality, and eye-catching visuals. Production is fast and reliable, whether for small test runs, special editions, or large-scale series. Count on fast and reliable production - whether for small test runs, special editions, or large-scale series.

  • Self-adhesive plastic or paper labels
  • No direct contact with food, therefore great design freedom
  • Sophisticated designs with metallization, diffractive, or hologram effects
  • Excellent resistance to grease and moisture
  • Also suitable for difficult formats such as cylindrical packaging
  • Can be added during production

Decorative Design for an Anniversary Edition

Congratulations! We finished a special edition of the stylish ‘Evo Olive Oil’ blend for the olive oil producer Varvaglione to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Read more in our case study.

Find the Case Study here

Food Packaging Design

A New Product Experience for Your Customers

Cardboard, plastic, glass? Whatever material your product is made of, we make it more beautiful, safer, and more noticeable. We have a wide range of designs with extremely high substrate flexibility to not only open the door to a new product experience for your customers, but to facilitate cost and process efficiency. You’ll save on labels by directly enhancing your product while making it more sustainability.

  • Numerous design options
  • Glass, cardboard, plastic, and other materials
  • Finishing of outer packaging or secondary packaging
  • Direct printing possible, labels not required
  • Highly efficient production of fantastic, previously unachievable effects through inLINE FOILING®

KURZ GRAPHICS

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Breathtaking! Impress your customers with many design options such as a 3D look and captivating feel, as well as many other paper, packaging, and cardboard finishings for your food products.

KURZ CUSTOMER PORTAL

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Convenient! Discover your options: Browse our online shop for the latest design trends for your groceries.

Food Safety Labeling

On the Safe Side - Food Labeling Solutions

Food manufacturers are well aware of safety requirements. To protect consumers, the standards and laws of the respective sales country must be complied with, for instance with product authenticity guarantees and the best-before date. Our fast, robust, and reliable marking solutions for food labels and direct surface finishing help you comply with the relevant guidelines.

  • Reliable and fast printing of variable data
  • Performance stability despite using different substrates
  • Security and documentation for the entire supply chain (e.g., integration of batch numbers)
  • Health-relevant information such as best-before dates or product authenticity can be documented and controlled
  • Excellent customization possible: Labels in the colors of your corporate design

KURZ Thermal Transfer Ribbons

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Customized! Fast, robust, and reliable labeling protection tailored to food labels and packaging.

Processes and Machine Solutions for Food

Fascinating Finishing - Individual, Fast, and Reliable

Whether caviar, yogurt, chocolate, or baby food - packaging reflects the value of a product. Consciously or subconsciously, a sophisticated or colorful appearance is what turns prospects into customers. Brilliant designs, metallic effects, 2D or 3D, haptic reliefs on paper and plastic: We make it possible. Our processes and machine solutions for food products ensure the finishing of surfaces with impressive speed and quality whether for limited special editions or high-volume editions.

  • Suitable finishing processes for your product
  • In-line or as stand-alone solution
  • Hot stamping, cold transfer, or fast and flexible digital transfer
  • Paper and plastic packaging
  • A fascinating appearance with security for your branded products

KURZ GRAPHICS

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Breathtaking! Impress your customers with a sensual product experience: With 3D reliefs at the trade fair stand, captivating haptics at the POS, and many other forms of hot-stamping finishing.

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Flexible! Direct printing of plastic and glass cylinders is very simple, even meeting highly complex decoration requirements.

Sustainability Innovations for the Food Industry

Direct finishing of products using recycled substrates instead of foils, and minimizing coating amounts: These are just a few examples that show that sustainable production is not impossible. Our experience and expertise ensure impressive decoration of different materials that are easily compatible with recycling and composting processes.

Thinner. Lighter. More Sustainable.

  • Surface finishes optimized for recycling and composting processes
  • 6,000 times thinner than a human hair: Finishing possible with a 0.02 μm thin aluminum layer and minimum coating amount (~2.4 g/m2)
  • New and environmentally friendly thanks to minimal material consumption: Reduction of carrier material from 12 μm to 6 μm - KPS slim 2.0 (patent pending)

With our KURZ Innovative Life Cycle Thinking

  • RECOSYS® 2.0: Our unique program uses leftover carrier material from the finishing process as recycled material for the plastics industry
  • Certified quality: INGEDE and DIN CERTCO certificates

Join the KURZ RECOSYS® 2.0 program, our innovative recycling concept.

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