Pet Food

We all want to spoil our furry friends with perfectly-packaged treats, snacks and food. That’s why we provide high quality wrapping solutions for the pet food sector, allowing your organisation to efficiently, hygienically and attractively package these products. We have experience wrapping a whole range of animal food items such as individual display packs of dog treats right up to larger transit packs, including sacks of bird seed or pellets in multipacks. With our packaging machines and materials, you can tick all your customers’ boxes (or pouches, sachets and tins!) to give pet-lovers across the UK the peace of mind that their beloved companion is getting the very best.

Why choose YPS for pet food wrapping applications?

Flexible solutions: The packaging demands of the pet food industry can vary drastically. Packs can be required for transit purposes or for retail environments, each with their own specialist considerations. Pet brands may also want to wrap singles or multipacks. or may be looking to heat shrink products or bind them in pallet wrap - perhaps both. Whatever your requirement, we have a solution to suit your needs.
food-contact approved: Most of our shrink films come with full food-contact approval, so you can rest assured that they are more than suited to wrap your pet's edibles. Plus we can also supply BZ cross-linked shrink film with enhanced tensile strength, capable of wrapping irregularly-shaped items without incurring punctures. This is ideal for natural pet foods that may contain sharp bones, snouts or hooves.
Stability for products in sacks: Many pet food products such as seeds and nuts are packed in sacks. These can be tricky to shrink wrap as they can be highly unstable when bundled in collations. At YPS we have the know-how and the machinery to create your multipacks in secure bundles without mishaps. We have a number of machines that can be set at slower, more controlled speeds and we can incorporate collation devices which ensure the weight is evenly distributed as sacks are stacked.
Sustainable materials: Our heavy-duty polythene shrink films, presentation polyolefin shrink films and pallet wrap films are available with 30%+ recycled content and are in turn fully recyclable themselves. This means they conform with circular economy goals, so you know that whilst you're looking after our pets, you're also looking after our planet.
Printed Films: We know that often pet food products need to come with a lot of information. Storage instructions, best before dates and ingredients lists are often required, as well as the odd logo for branding purposes. We have wrapped dog bones, chew sticks and rinds in printed film before, so nothing's off the menu!
Unrivalled support: We pride ourselves on our best-in-class support, which is why every machine supplied comes with a generous parts and labour warranty, as well as a free service contract. Our engineers are DBS checked and SafeContractor approved.

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our customers

When it comes to pet food wrapping, we're the butcher's cut. That's why we're the supplier of choice for these premium manufacturers.

Craig Gudgeon, Alpha Feeds

“We looked into the market at a number of companies and after a lot of extensive trials and tests we selected YPS again. The equipment that YPS could offer far outstripped that of the competition.”

Flexiblity

Trayed and trayless packs

Our side feed sleeve wrapping systems are designed to handle collated packs in both trayed and trayless formations. This offers complete flexibility to pet food manufacturers who often wrap a range of items in varied pack types, allowing the same unit to be used for any application. Trays are typically used to add stability to packs that may be liable to topple over as they move through the machine or those that may not maintain their collation as they are pushed through the film. Trays can also be useful for retail environments where they can be used as on-shelf dispensers, easy to display and restock. Packs that don't require trays benefit from reduced secondary packaging and therefore bring overall cost savings.

side feed sleeve wrappers

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The side feed sealer can collate single packs into a variety of trayless or trayed multipacks and creates almost unlimited collations in polythene films.

Wraps trayed and trayless packs

Creates multiple collations

Fast changeovers between packs

Simple controls

Optional full BAMA compliance for aerosols

Side Feed Automatic Sleeve Sealer

Designed to wrap larger and longer packs, single packs and collations in trays at faster speeds. Simplicity is key with no change parts required between batches.

Speeds of up to 600 cycles per hour

Height adjustable sealing jaw for faster production

Pack clamps for unstable products running at speed

No change parts required

Optional kissing conveyor for small packs

Inline Automatic Sleeve Sealer

Ideal for low production or low volume wrapping requirements at slower speeds or when using trayless or unstable products where flexibility is key.

Ideal for unstable packs

Available as monoblock units or separate sealer and tunnel

Product packs with or without bullseyes

Ease of operation

Heavy duty sealing jaw for consistently strong seals

Semi Automatic Sleeve Sealer

An entry-level power pre-stretch turntable model known as the Masterplat, with six pre-programmable cycles. Impressive performance combined with an economical investment.

Handles stretch up to 250%

Six pre-programmable wrapping cycles

Speeds of up to 12 rotations per minute

A choice of film carriage

Intuitive touch screen controls

Semi-Automatic Standard Turntable

A small but powerful warehouse staple. Discover our portable, self-propelled robotic stretch wrapping system boasting stretch capacities up to 500%. The range includes the FRD, FR, P3GS and PVS film carriage options.

Conforms to the dimension of any pallet

Perfect for warehouses with multiple wrapping locations or limited space

Multiple features for safe operation

Optional R-Connect integration

Intuitive controls and pre-programmable settings

Semi-Automatic Robot Wrappers

Perfect for heavy and unstable products or irregular pallets that need to remain stationery. Boasts six programmable settings and power pre-stretch up to 300% and it's sturdy build can handle reels weighing up to 20kg.

Handles stretch up to 300%

Up to 11 arm rotations per minute

Innovative film insertion system

Touchscreen controls for ease of use

Optional R-connect - smart industry 4.0 tech

Semi-Automatic Extra-Wide Rotating Arm

Ian Burrows, Newhay Feeds

"When we approached YPS with our brief we received thorough and detailed advice that helped us choose the correct equipment and we ran several trials with YPS to make sure the application was just right. The machine was supplied and installed with speed and efficiency and its performance since has exceeded our expectations."

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Fully recyclable shrink material for just about any transit packing application in single wound and centre folded variations.

Robust, durable shrink film for transit applications

Thicknesses between 30-150 micron

Fully recyclable with the option of 30%+ recycled content

Printing possibilities for enhanced branding

Available in clear or coloured

Polythene Transit

The most popular film in our range, due to its extremely high yield, RS is perfect for applications running high-speed fully and semi-automatic machinery.

100% recyclable

Compatible with all high-speed pallet wrapping machinery

Food-contact approved

Rolls up to 3000mm wide

Available in thicknesses between 15mu and 35mu

RS Multi-Purpose Stretch

A range of high quality stretch films in an array of thicknesses and widths for manual application. Characterised by their low unwind noise and exceptional load stabilising properties.

100% recyclable

Thicknesses over 16mu can be supplied with recycled content

Available with flush and extended cores or without cores at all

Thicknesses between 5mu and 30mu

Clear, coloured or printed specifications possible