OVTENE- Your Fresh Food Packaging Solution

Ovtene is a revolutionary new packaging material proven to be more effective for keeping food fresh, whilst also being a better option for our environment. Ovtene is already being used in retail and wholesale across many countries including Italy, Germany, the USA, the UK and Ireland.

Who are Ovtene?

Arcadia S.p.a. trading as Ovtene, is a family run company based just outside of Venice. Following years of independent and PhD-level research, Ovtene has created a new and state-of-the-art packaging for a wide range of food. Their founding principles were to extend the life of food, thus cutting down on food waste, and simultaneously help to reduce the effects packaging has on our environment.

What is Ovtene?

Ovtene is a calcium carbonate-polyethylene mix that can feel and look like regular paper, it is easily used to wrap foods previously wrapped by paper or plastic. Ovtene’s unique building blocks allow air to pass through but acts as a barrier to liquids. Ovtene is currently being used in retail,
wholesale and in Deli’s across the UK and Ireland.

Why Ovtene?

ECO friendly: Ovtene offers an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional paper and plastic packaging. This is because no trees are cut down and no water is needed during the manufacturing process. This is revolutionary as paper packaging can require upwards of 80 litres of water to produce just 1kg of paper. Ovtene is a fully recyclable product composed of 60% calcium carbonate, with the remaining 40% formed from a mix of plastics and recycled materials.

Revolutionary Engineering: The calcium carbonate blend means that Ovtene allows air to pass through whilst creating a barrier to liquids, this in turn enables anything wrapped in Ovtene to maintain it’s level of moisture. Crucially this create a micro-environment in the packaging, which allows food to keep it’s flavour for longer and prevents mould growth for >30% more time. 

Customisable: Ovtene’s versatility allows customers to use this innovative packaging with a wide range of foods, including cheese, meat, fish and vegetables. Therefore, we offer different forms of packaging which can be seen in the ‘which ovtene’ section. All products can be adapted to best suit the food type, this includes adapting dimensions and thickness of the packaging. Additional, the design and base colour can be customised to best represent your brand identity.

Which ovtene is best for you?
Sheets, Rolls, Byovtene or Bags…

Sheets or Rolls

ByOvtene
Sheets with wings to better suit sliced goods

Bags

Our Case Studies

Red Meat

A comparison of how sliced meat ages with ovtene compared to traditional packaging.

Mortadella

A trained tasting panel (10 people), were asked to taste a piece of Mortadella, over a five day period, and report whether or not they thought it was still edible.
The results can be seen above.

Parmesan Cheese

Clingfilm, tinfoil, Tupperware, and two forms of ovtvene were put to the test to measure their effectiveness against mould growth in a 104 day period.
The results can be seen above.

If you would like to try ovtene at home, you can buy our bags on amazon