Vacuum Packaging

Micris Packaging offers a wide range of vacuum packaging products for food manufacturers giving confidence that your food product will have optimum protection against spoilage and an extended shelf life. Vacuum packaging ensures your product does not come in contact with oxygen and retains its freshness thereby extending the shelf life of the product compared to conventional storage methods. Bacteria, mould and yeast cannot grow in a vacuum.

Our product range is extensive and provides multiple functions that can be adapted to suit specific requirements.

Shrink Bags and Shrink HFFS Films

  • Barrier shrink bags and films
  • High abuse shrink bags and films
  • Non barrier shrink bags and films

Pouches

  • Nylon, EVOH and other combination multilayer barrier pouches
  • Laminated barrier pouches
  • High temperature pouches
  • Stand up pouches

Specialty Applications

  • High moisture, oxygen and odour barrier structures for sensitive products
  • Tubular and flat films for high temperature processing including cook chill
  • Coloured films
  • Skin films
  • Food safety pads – range of soaker pads (active and inactive) suitable for vacuum packing

Product Applications

  • Chilled vacuum packed fresh meat for domestic and export applications
  • Chilled vacuum packed processed meat, poultry, dairy, vegetarian and nuts for retail or wholesale applications
  • High abuse bags for bone-in or hard surface products
  • Chilled or frozen non barrier applications for chicken or lamb in retail or export applications
  • Other sensitive food and non-food products requiring oxygen or moisture barrier protection

Conversion Options

  • Gravure and flexographic printing for retail presentation
  • Various seal profiles for shrink bags and pouches
  • Perforated bags on rolls
  • Taped bags

Modified Atmosphere Packaging

Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) is a technique used for prolonging the shelf-life period of fresh or minimally processed foods. In this preservation technique the air surrounding the food in the package is changed to another composition. This way the initial fresh state of the product may be prolonged since it slows the natural deterioration.

Product Range

  • Large bulk size multilayer barrier pouches
  • Barrier thermoforming film structures
  • Barrier form-fill-seal film structures
  • Case ready barrier tray lidding films
  • Case ready lidding films for mother bag system
  • Food safety pads

Applications

  • Chilled whole and portion chicken
  • Bulk and retail sliced, shaved meats and smallgoods products
  • Retail shredded meat, cheese and other pillow pack products requiring barrier protection
  • Case ready tray packing for fresh foods (including meat) for retail presentation requiring anti-fog properties
  • Special requirement bakery applications

Conversion Options

  • Printing for retail presentation
  • Varying pouch seal profiles

Processing Films and Casings

Product Range

Casings – Processed Meat Products

  • Impervious smoke and/or colour transfer fibrous replacement shrink casings
  • Moisture and oxygen barrier food casings
  • Casings and films for cook-and-ship or cook-and-strip applications
  • Casings for moulded products using retainers
  • Calibration control casings for slicing operations maximizing slicing yields
  • Extensive range of casing colours and size calibrations
  • Smokable shrink plastic and fibrous casings
  • Non-clip processing films and casings

Films and Pouches

  • Cook-chill applications for food service products
  • Cook-and-reheat films
  • High temperature films

Applications

  • Whole muscle and reformed processed ham, poultry, beef, lamb and other meat products
  • Processed meat, poultry and pet food applications requiring printed casings for retail presentation
  • Mince chub packing
  • Vegetarian food products
  • Food service products such as meat and pasta sauces, fruit and vegetable purees
  • Home meal replacement and institutional food applications

Conversion Options

  • Gravure and flexographic printing for retail presentation
  • Casing shirring
  • Casing preconditioning
  • Casing clipping
  • Specialty heat sealing

Specialty Films and Products

Product Range

  • Skin packing films
  • Non barrier shrink polyolefin films
  • Protective films for packing bone-in meat products
  • Plastic cooking and decorative nets
  • Clipping machines and clip closures
  • Specialty heat sealing

Applications

  • Skin packaging of pasta products, pate, cheese portions and fish
  • Skin packing of non-food and hardware products
  • Shrink wrapping meat pieces, fruit and other tray products for retail presentation
  • Clip closures for casing applications in meat and poultry processing

Food Safety Pads

Product Range

  • Zap and UltraZap Pads – Cellulose tissue pads
  • UltraZap SuperSorb – Cellulose tissue combined with super absorbent polymers
  • UltraZap XtendaPak – An active pad that contains additives that produce carbon dioxide (CO2) and an anti-microbial ingredient that reduces the bacteria growth inside the cellulose pad and in the purge
  • UltraZap EnviroPak – Available in biodegradable and compostable versions

Applications

  • Meat, poultry, seafood and other food items packed in overwrapped trays
  • Vacuum packed products requiring purge control
  • Modified atmosphere packs
  • Medical applications
  • Spill containments
  • Sliced fruit and vegetables