Aluminium foil containers and trays are used to bake pies and to pack takeaway meals, ready snacks and long life pet foods.The aluminium container owes a large part of its acknowledged advantages to the attributes of the aluminium material itself: Aluminium provides a total barrier and protects sensitive and valuable food from deterioration;It has unique mechanical properties as it is highly formable and can also be 'dead folded’, which is beneficial when deep drawing and shaping containers; Aluminium is an excellent conductor of heat and at the same time is heat-resistant, allowing quick and controlled heating of the container’s food content;The use of aluminium containers in microwave ovens is perfectly viable.