Attractive packs for fish and crustaceans

At Seafood 2019 Mul­ti­vac will be exhibit­ing pack­ag­ing solu­tions, which con­tribute to extend­ing the shelf life of fish and seafood as well as ensur­ing, that the prod­uct is pre­sent­ed attrac­tive­ly at the point of sale. In addi­tion to con­cepts for pro­duc­ing attrac­tive vac­u­um skin packs, the focus of the trade fair will also include pack­ag­ing solu­tions, which meet the cur­rent demand for recy­cla­bil­i­ty and min­imi­sa­tion of plas­tic con­sump­tion in the pro­duc­tion of food packaging.

The Mul­ti­Fresh con­cept from Mul­ti­vac, the spe­cial­ist in pack­ag­ing, offers a proven process for pack­ing food in vac­u­um skin packs. In addi­tion to a wide spec­trum of ther­mo­form­ing pack­ag­ing machines and tray­seal­ers, there is also an exten­sive range of skin films avail­able, which was devel­oped in con­junc­tion with lead­ing film man­u­fac­tur­ers, and which ensures that opti­mum pack­ag­ing results are achieved. This means that even food prod­ucts with sharp edges or hard areas, such as bones or shells, as well as those with high prod­uct pro­tru­sion, can be packed secure­ly and with a high-qual­i­ty appear­ance. In Brus­sels the Mul­ti­Fresh process will be demon­strat­ed on a ther­mo­form­ing pack­ag­ing machine, which is capa­ble of being con­fig­ured indi­vid­u­al­ly, as well as on a com­pact, ful­ly auto­mat­ic traysealer.

The high-per­for­mance R 275 MF ther­mo­form­ing pack­ag­ing machine, which will be exhib­it­ed at Seafood, is designed for pack­ing whole fish in vac­u­um skin packs. It enables high-qual­i­ty packs to be pro­duced for an exten­sive range of prod­ucts, and it achieves a high lev­el of out­put with max­i­mum efficiency.

When it comes to pro­duc­ing Mul­ti­Fresh tray packs in small to medi­um-sized batch­es, the com­pa­ny will be show­ing the space-saving.

T 300 MF entry-lev­el mod­el. This com­pact tray­seal­er can be designed as mul­ti-track and com­bined with var­i­ous dis­charge sys­tems. Thanks to the sim­ple die change, the machine can quick­ly be con­vert­ed for dif­fer­ent pack sizes and shapes. Elec­tric dri­ve sys­tems for the tray trans­port, lift­ing unit and film trim winder ensure that it has an ener­gy-effi­cient method of operation.

Thanks to its Paper­Board range, the com­pa­ny is able to meet the ris­ing demand for sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing solu­tions. “At Seafood we are expect­ing a high lev­el of inter­est from vis­i­tors in this area in par­tic­u­lar,” explains Vales­ka Haux, Vice Pres­i­dent of Cor­po­rate Mar­ket­ing at Mul­ti­vac. On dis­play will be a range of con­cepts, which con­tribute to reduc­ing the use of plas­tics in pack­ag­ing pro­duc­tion, as well as con­cepts for pro­duc­ing packs that meet cur­rent recy­cling require­ments. The Mul­ti­vac Paper­Board range com­pris­es a wide vari­ety of paper fibre-based mate­ri­als, which the com­pa­ny has devel­oped in con­junc­tion with lead­ing pack­ag­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers, and which can be used to pro­duce MAP and vac­u­um skin packs on ther­mo­form­ing pack­ag­ing machines and traysealers.

For labelling these packs, Mul­ti­vac will be exhibit­ing a Full-wrap labelling solu­tion for effi­cient wrap-around labelling of a wide range of packs. A con­vey­or belt labeller is used to apply a label to the top of the pack, then over both sides and final­ly onto the base of the pack. In con­trast to oth­er labelling or sleev­ing sys­tems, full-wrap labelling offers many ben­e­fits in terms of label qual­i­ty, effi­cien­cy and pre­sen­ta­tion at the point of sale. The process is very flex­i­ble in being able to run labels made from dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als and in a wide vari­ety of shapes, and it ensures that max­i­mum labelling qual­i­ty is achieved even with unusu­al pack shapes.