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Japan's snack history is aluminum history.
Japanese companies were the first to commercialize the use of aluminized films for food packaging. Toyo Aluminium pioneered vacuum metallization of plastic films. Toppan Printing & DNP (Dai Nippon Printing) pioneers of printed flexible packaging using aluminized films. In the 1970s, Japan was leading globally in flexible packaging for snacks and food using aluminized films.
Why Japan? Japan had early expertise in thin-film technology, polymer films, and high-precision vacuum equipment. The Japanese snack food market demanded high-barrier, lightweight, attractive packaging, accelerating development. Japanese print/packaging companies innovated multilayer flexible packaging, integrating vacuum-metallized layers.
Technology spread to Europe and the US for snack packaging. Today, global usage in snacks, coffee, powdered foods, pharmaceuticals. But what matters is, these were all invented by Japanese men.
Japanese companies were the first to commercialize the use of aluminized films for food packaging. Toyo Aluminium pioneered vacuum metallization of plastic films. Toppan Printing & DNP (Dai Nippon Printing) pioneers of printed flexible packaging using aluminized films. In the 1970s, Japan was leading globally in flexible packaging for snacks and food using aluminized films.
Why Japan? Japan had early expertise in thin-film technology, polymer films, and high-precision vacuum equipment. The Japanese snack food market demanded high-barrier, lightweight, attractive packaging, accelerating development. Japanese print/packaging companies innovated multilayer flexible packaging, integrating vacuum-metallized layers.
Technology spread to Europe and the US for snack packaging. Today, global usage in snacks, coffee, powdered foods, pharmaceuticals. But what matters is, these were all invented by Japanese men.
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