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Food Packaging

Design food packaging for circularity without compromising performance

Discover our polyethene resins and adhesives for high-performance food packaging. If you’re looking for improved sustainability performance, greater efficiency, or brand differentiation, our products can help. We work to design for circularity while downgauging and improving performance.


Freshness. Safety. Security. Sustainability. Food packaging should deliver all these things. That’s why we passionately work with brand owners and converters to address consumer expectations for food quality and freshness, while innovating to improve packaging line performance, shelf life, tamper resistance, and environmental impact.

Salami slices in meat packaging

Meat and Cheese Packaging

Processability, durability and shelf-life when the smallest details matter.

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Liquid Food and Beverage Packaging

Designs and materials that can minimize messes and improve sustainability.

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Pet Food

Packaging that’s good for pets, the planet, and your peace of mind.

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Snack and Cereal Packaging

Packaging that looks good, retains the crunch, and enhances sustainability.

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Coffee Packaging

Barrier that protects flavor with adhesion that helps to enable easy-open convenience.

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Produce and Fresh Food Packaging

Breathable, attractive convenience that improves shelf-life and helps minimize waste.

With a product portfolio that makes barrier, re-sealable and breathable films possible, we offer solutions that can reduce every type of food waste, including frozen food packaging, condiments packaging, confection and bakery packaging, food containers and tubs, and food storage bags. We can help with food packaging that requires extrusion coating, such as paper packaging, or microwaveable - retort features. Whatever your food packaging challenge, our team is here to help you maintain freshness, convenience, clean labeling, and clear packaging.

Answering the call to reduce food and plastic waste

The world needs more packaging options and less waste. Dow works to convene multiple stakeholders to address circularity, while retaining the benefits of plastic to help address food waste. From designing for circularity to downgauging, we are passionate about innovating packaging solutions that are scalable to accelerate the sustainability journey.

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Pack Studios: Accelerate packaging innovation. Design and test packaging concepts at scale.

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