MATERIAL FOR MANUFACTURING CONTAINERS AND CONTAINERS BASED ON THIS MATERIAL Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: food industry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to containers for drinks and foods, on which one can apply configurational outline by means of a punching device and create form of container by bending sheet. Material comprises an essentially amorphous foamed sheet made from ethylene/terephthalate copolymer containing 2 to 20 mol % of isophthalic and/or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid motifs. Sheet is characterized by density below 700 kg/cu.m, thickness 0.2 to 3 mm, and such crystallization rate that, upon heating at 120 C for 5 min, degree of crystallinity does not reach values higher than 15%. EFFECT: facilitated use of containers for different products.