Vacuum skin packaging

Vacuum skin packaging

Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP), also known as Skin Film, is used to create an airtight wrap around food products and is available for both rigid or thermoformed trays.

Using VSP delivers extended shelf-life and preserves product quality for food producers. Vacuum Skin Packing largely reduces aerobic bacteria growth, allowing for optimum shelf life, whilst also creating exceptional visual appearance.

Used in conjunction with vacuum sealing equipment.

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Our skin packaging can vacuum pack

fish

meat

dairy

poultry

charcuterie

tech specs

Food contact approved

Fully compliant with EU regulations on food contact materials.

Fully recyclable

With OPRL approval.

High Barrier properties

To extend the shelf life of foods.

Peelable on PE, PP and PET

Our skin films adhere to PE lined cardboard trays as well as mono PP and PET plastic trays, including those with recycled content.

Hermetic seals

The high sealing properties ensure no leaking or cross-contamination.

Puncture resistance

Adapts to the physical constraints of even irregularly shaped products, including bones and packs with significant height.

reducing food waste

packaging for longer life

Vacuum Skin Packaging delivers appreciable benefits all along the supply chain, whilst creating attractive, shelf-ready packs.

Producing a pack that is vacuum-sealed ensures significantly longer product life, reducing food waste at every stage. For the consumer, it provides an easy-to-use product, with a freezer- or microwave-safe pack where required, and a skin that is easily peelable for hassle-free use.

The wide range of Vacuum Skin Packaging on offer, including a huge range of differing thicknesses, means that there's an ideal material match whatever product you're wrapping.

Benefits of Vacuum Skin Packaging

Protects and preserves

The tight pack created by vacuum sealing reduces aerobic growth and ensures no liquid leakage. This allows for optimum product protection, increasing shelf life by up to 10 times and potentially slashing retailer loss in half.

Truly flexible packaging

Delivering exceptional packaging for a wide variety of products - whole foods, portioned products and single servings; raw, uncooked, pre-cooked or smoked. The robust formulation of our vacuum skin packaging offers high puncture resistance even for protruding products such as bone-in foods.

Looking good

VSP delivers a shelf-ready pack that enhances appearance with its high-quality, aesthetically-pleasing transparent finish. The resultant pack can be stored vertically or horizontally at POS, as needed, with no concern about fluid escape.

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YPS holds extensive stocks of packaging materials in our centrally-located warehouse, for despatch to our customers across the UK & Ireland, usually with next-day delivery.

We can offer a call-off facility, holding stocks of customer-specific materials, for example printed products, ready to be shipped whenever you need them.

All of the materials we supply are from trusted manufacturers producing quality packaging solutions.

From manufacture through to storage and distribution, all of our products are certified to the highest BRC accredited AA standard.