Alongside consumer convenience, the trays reportedly also offer food manufacturers significant potential cost savings, since they can be run on high speed filling lines, "reducing the need for multiple filling and labour-intensive packing". Lidding films with a simple self-venting feature are also available.
Linpac believes the trays are among the first of their kind and it says "very extensive" r&d was needed to perfect the perforation feature to enable the segments to be easily snapped off.
