Sabert’s Groundbreaking Twist & Crispy™ Named AmeriStar 2025 Winner, Receiving Top Honors for Innovative Foodservice Packaging

SAYREVILLE, NJ, August 18, 2025 - Sabert Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of innovative and sustainable food packaging solutions, has been recognized with a 2025 AmeriStar Award for its Twist & Crispy™ containers. Earning top honors in the Packaging that Saves Food category, this new product checked all the boxes for innovation and excellence across the foodservice packaging industry.

Twist & Crispy™ was designed to tackle some of the most common takeout and delivery challenges, like soggy textures, loss of crispiness, and cold food, which can lead to a poor customer dining experience.

Featuring a patented innovation, Twist & Crispy™ offers a new way for takeout packaging to protect food quality, optimize back-of-house operations, and preserve both crispy and saucy foods in a single unit. The core advancement lies in its 360-degree dual-locking lid system design, the first of its kind, transforming the product into two distinct packaging solutions.  

For fried and crispy foods, operators can align the "crispy" engravings on the lid and base to activate the vented configuration, promoting airflow and moisture control throughout the entire container.  Independent lab testing conducted by Tentamus North America found that Twist & Crispy™ keeps food hot and crispy quality for up to 40 minutes without degradation, significantly exceeding the average delivery window.

For saucier menu items, users rotate the lid 90 degrees to engage the sealed configuration. With a firm press, the lid clicks into place to form a leak-resistant, secure seal. This "twist-to-transform" concept eliminates the need to stock separate container types for vented and non-vented food item applications. With Twist & Crispy™, operators can streamline inventory and simplify the procurement process, helping to achieve cost savings and time efficiencies while maintaining or improving their service quality.

“We are grateful to be recognized with this prestigious award for Twist & Crispy™," said Alexus Medina, Director, Product Management at Sabert Corporation. "Receiving this honor underscores Sabert's rich history and passion for innovation, where we encourage our teams to think differently, activate bold ideas, and solve our customers' most complex packaging needs. Our collective focus on emerging and new-to-the-world designs, materials, and manufacturing processes fuels our ability to develop high-performance solutions that meet today’s demands while anticipating the needs of tomorrow.”

The AmeriStar awards program is a packaging industry design competition produced by the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP). A diverse panel of packaging professionals evaluates solutions across various industries, including the foodservice sector. Within the Saves Food Category, judges consider criteria such as innovation, including the application of a new idea, how the product protects food, and how a package minimizes food waste.

Twist & Crispy™ containers are made in the USA and are available in multiple sizes to accommodate varied menu applications.

For more information, please visit www.sabert.com.