Both Vacuum Packaging and MAP can extend the life for your products and protect its freshness, visuality and taste. The below may help you decide which option is best for your products. Vacuum Packaging? During the vacuum packing process all air is evacuated from the pack. It is then hermetically sealed in order to maintain the vacuum and therefore protect the contents from environmental influences such as moisture and oxidation processes. Extracting oxygen inhibits the reproduction of oxygen-dependent micro-organisms and…
Skin Packaging
Vortech are receiving an unprecedented amount of enquiries regarding Skin Packaging. Our range of Skin Packaging machines were introduced six years ago with many installations around the world and now the trend seems to be here to stay in the UK. The latest Skin Packaging technology has been developed within our tried and tested range of Tray sealers, from the Olympus Rotary Semi-Automatic Tray Sealer, perfect for those just commencing their skin packaging applications, up to the highest speed models…
New Rotary Tray Sealer for £14,000.
The Olympus is one of the most successful and cost effective semi-automatic rotary tray sealer available. Compact, portable with clean modern lines the Olympus is capable of sealing up to 30 packs per minute and 16 packs per minute MAP. It is of simple, robust, design and complete with recipe driven operator panel making it exceptionally easy to operate. Standard features include: HMI with programme recipe Automatically driven waste film rewind Quick film change over Profile film cutting Accurate temperature…
Are you considering Tray Sealing ?
A GUIDE TO HEAT SEALING AND TRAY SEALERS THE ADVANTAGES OF HEAT SEALING Heat Sealing produces a hermetic seal (airtight), this is especially important if using MAP (modified atmosphere technology) to extend shelf life Heat Sealed Packs can be used to enhance the shelf appeal of products Heat Sealed Packs can be stronger than packs sealed by other methods contributing to less damage in transportation, storage and in the Retailers THE VARIABLES Heat sealing is a process that uses three…
Skin Packaging
What is Skin Packaging ? When vacuum skin packaging the product is placed onto a pre-formed tray. The special skin film is then placed over the product and vacuum applied to evacuate the air. After evacuation, the top film which has specific skinning properties, wraps around the contours of the product and seals to the pre-formed tray. Applications Fresh and processed meat products Cheese Fish and Seafood Poultry Advantages Attractive presentation Vertical display possible optimising shelf space Extended shelf life…
New Compact Fully Automated Slice Packaging Line
The Express machine is a very compact, reliable, cost effective machine with full automation of sliced product into the sealing process. Initially developed for in-store operation with a major retailer, we are now pleased to offer to producers. The system is proving to be very popular with small and medium size food manufacturers. Dimensions under 4 meters including the Slicer, Denester, Packaging Machine and Weigh/Price Labelling unit Value for money Extended life with MAP technology Quick-capable of 8/10 cycles per…
Ravioli Forming
The Vortech Tecna Filled Pasta Range is renown throughout the world for producing the highest quality of product. Our most recent UK installation was required to produce 300kg of fresh Ravioli Pasta per hour with the highest possible ratio of filling to Pasta. The filling was to be of exceptional quality; very moist meat and ricotta cheese with large particulates which could not sustain damage in the process. Traditionally the Ravioli Pasta Sheet had been .8/.9mm thick with a 60:40…
Tecna Provide Top Quality Cappelletti Solution for Worlds most famous luxury department store
When approached by the famous store to deliver a system for producing the very best in filled Cappelletti Pasta we were delighted to rise to the challenge. The new Tecna machine for producing Cappelletti works at exceptionally high speeds and incorporates our unique Air Punch Technology. The Air Punch Technology means that we can work with finer pasta sheets (5mm) and very soft and delicate fillings. Please enquire for further information in producing the highest quality filled pasta. …
Vortech Present New Automatic Packaging Line for Sliced Products
The new Express automatic Slice Pack line is the ideal solution for MAP Packaging for sliced ham, meats, cheese and similar products. Perfect for where floor space is at a premium, the in-line system provides automatic slicing, tray denesting, product loading and MAP tray sealing in addition to weighing, pricing and labelling, all within a space of 4 metres. Quick and efficient; typical speeds are 8-10 slice packs per minute with a residual oxygen level of 0.2%. The Slice Pack…
Vortech announce Entry Level Yang Olympus Skin Packaging
In addition to our fully automatic in-line Perseus and Polaris Tray Sealer models, the highly reliable, robust, semi-automatic Olympus is also suitable for skin packaging and is perfect at entry level. Hugely versatile; using the same die, you just need to exchange the film specification and you can switch from MAP (modified atmosphere packaging) top sealing to skin packaging in a matter of moments. Please enquire for further details.…