Pontypridd,Wales-based closure manufacturer Dragon Plastics and self-heating packaging technology specialist Steam To Go say they have developed the UK’s first self-heating convenience food container.
The two companies’ new predominantly plastic pack can reportedly deliver a hot meal or snack within four minutes of opening and activating the special “heat engine”. Heat is generated via the interaction of water and lime, creating steam, which is in turn forced through the pre-cooked but cold ready meal via specially engineered apertures in the container base. To activate the chemical reaction, the user simply depresses a button on the top of the pack.
Rod Parker, Dragon Plastics md, says: “Theere are numerous applications for packaging that heats up its contents. Food and drink are obvious ones, but think of beauty products, gardening or agrochemical preparations and scientific applications where a reagent is heated to a preset temperature for field trials.”
