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Food Packaging
Food Packaging
Kempner has an extremely broad customer base of food manufacturers and processors.
Applications include meat, fish, shellfish, eggs, fruit and vegetables, ready meals
including pizza, bakery and cakes.
Generally,
shrink wrap as a medium, is not used to extend shelf life by a significant
degree; there are other packaging methods that offer long product life.
Rather,
shrink films extend shelf life by a limited amount, when in conjunction
with chill or deep freeze temperatures.
Food Packaging Machinery
As regards food
Packaging Machinery, the user needs only to consider both the pack size
and the ultimate production rate desired, to be able to refine a decision on the
correct
shrink wrap equipment to be used. The Bubble or Chamber is an ideal, entry-level
machine, offering a pack yield around 200 units per hour; a greater quantity may
be achieved - this depends on the pack complexity and the operator's competence.
High Food Packaging Speeds
Semi-Automatic L-Sealer
A higher packaging speed will be achieved with a semi-automatic L - Sealers feeding a compatible shrink
tunnel; up to 15 packs per minute can be produced, although the higher rates require
the pack to be light, low-profile and easily handled by a competent and motivated
user. A conservative output rate can be considered to be 8 to 10 packs per minute.
Automatic L-Sealer
The fully automatic L - sealers offers
up to 30 packs per minute; Kempner's machines have a number of features to improve
output rates. Again, it is appropriate to use Kempner's demonstration and pack -
proving facilities so that a good appreciation of the likely average production
speed can be gained. The higher rates require the pack to be relatively short as
well as low profile. 20 packs per minute may be considered to be normally achievable
although the user is invited, once more, to use Kempner's showrooms to establish
a rate for the pack to be wrapped. The high end of output rates is offered by Kempner's
side sealers. These are two belt or intermittent motion
or three belt or continuous motion machines. Rates can run up to 80 packs per minute.
With these applications, detailed trials are also used to allow an accurate evaluation
of the likely output speed to be made.
Shrink Films
shrink
film selection needs to be made with a specific view to the end use and
in particular, any requirement to extend the shelf life of the product and the conditioning
of the product after wrapping.
It is useful to consider specific applications as these provide valuable guidance
for end users.
Shrink Wrap Suitable For Food Packaging
Read our
product packaging and food packaging guide or contact us for more details and advice.
Meat packaging
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Meat packaging - trayed product, wrapped with Clysar HP Gold - premium, irradiated
film. |
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Fish packaging
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Fish packaging - preserved white fish, wrapped for deep freeze with Ultra NB. |
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Shellfish packaging
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Shellfish packaging - deep frozen in bulk with Clysar HP Gold. |
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Eggs packaging
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Eggs packaging - wrapped in various multipliers for retail sale using pulp
and thermoformed trays and Ultra NB. |
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Fruit packaging
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Fruit packaging - a large variety of fruit is wrapped, generally using foam
trays - the fruit includes apples, pears, peaches and plums. Direct wrap includes
bananas, where ripening is inhibited to an extent. Clysar HP Gold is particularly suited
to this application. |
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Vegetables packaging
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Vegetables packaging - swedes are directly wrapped in Clysar HP Gold as well as Ultra SPLN. Broccoli is wrapped
in Ultra SPF - an ultra strong, anti-fog shrink film designed to offer the
best possible cost effectiveness. Additional applications include endive and cabbage,
which require standard as well as anti-fog film. |
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Ready meals
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Ready meals packaging include pizza - Clysar EZ Gold is ideal for
this application as it has exceptional machineability offering particularly fast
production rates coupled with superb presentation characteristics. Other applications
include pre-prepared meals where Ultra RL is used. |
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Bakery packaging
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Bakery packaging involves Clysar HP Gold as well as Clysar CH, perforated to allow
the products to breathe at a high rate. Other bakery involves Ultra SPLN.
Cakes packaging are wrapped directly with Ultra SPLN as well as in display boxes
with
Clysar HP Gold.
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Speciality Foods
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Kempner also has a number of speciality food producers as customers. Their products
include chocolate and
confectionery, including
hand-made chocolates and
baklava. |
Food Packaging Machinery
Kempner offers an exceptional combination of shrink wrap machinery and materials
for food manufacturers and processors. New or existing users are invited to contact
the company for technical packaging advice and an unsurpassable quotation for either
shrink film
or packaging equipment.
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