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17-October-2022

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Packaging Sleeve that Fits well Seafood

ready to cook seafood in packaging sleeve
Source: The Skipper

Being a freak of seafood you must have hunted in the supermarket for various kinds of these delicacies: shellfish, shrimps, squid, hake, clam… they are freshly supplied or frozen in cans or trays as some kinds of ready-to-cook seafood meals.

Due to the feature of being perishable, most of the ready-to-cook seafood is frozen and then processed with vacuum packaging (skin pack, for example), while most of those ready-to-eat ones are stored in cans. 

The role the packaging sleeve plays here is to enact as an additional packaging for advertisement, information display, and branding, given the fact either the cans or the skin-packed trays are pretty spartan in terms of appearance and provide few spaces for images and information.

 

ESTRENA™ Wraparound Sleever for Seafood with Packaging Sleeve

Food processing facilities usually require equipment to be of a high standard in terms of resistance to rust, and corrosion, and hygienic structure, apart from being water-proof and dust-proof. All these requirements are put forward with regard to applicable standards, and regulations, as well as for food safety. And regardless of whether the equipment is for processing or primary and secondary packaging, a structure with excellent accessibility for maintenance and cleaning is a must.

All of these obligatory features make those cheap and poor-made packaging machines in the Chinese market inadequate to serve in a seafood processing facility. However, from ÉLITER Packaging Machinery we give a breakthrough shot!

ESTRENA WRAPAROUND SLEEVER MACHINE

The ESTRENA™ Wraparound Sleever employs a robust and solid SUS construction and is of aesthetic and ergonomic structure that offers excellent accessibility for maintenance and cleaning. We offer optional as well as to wash-down to IP65, a level at which the machine will be sufficient ingress protection level for most of the food-grade application situations.

What are IP Ratings?

Upon supplying equipment and packaging machinery to clients in the food industry or sometimes the drink industry, or in case you are a professional from the mentioned ones, understanding the IP rating, an acronym of “Ingress Protection” will be an inevitable and essential part of your job.

ip ratings

The fact is anyone who works at a food and beverage manufacturing or processing facility would have the idea clearly of why understanding IP ratings is of the utmost importance for their sectors. Mentioned facilities are usually with a nightmare-ish environment for devices, equipment, and machinery, which are likely to be with lots of materials smeared and spilled around, or imagine that of a seafood processing facility where wastes tend to be corrosive, temperatures may be set at a relatively low level and may turn to be problematic for some equipment.

IP Ratings or Ingress Protection ratings are terms used to evaluate enclosures’ sealing effectiveness against dust and moisture.

An IP rating consists of the abbreviation and then two digits where the former stands for the resistance to dust ingression and the latter for water ingression, see an example of IP 65. The first digit ranges from 0 to 6 while the second can be from 0 to 9. 

 

Packaging Sleeve for Skin Packed Seafood in Trays

Trays of seafood are fed to sleever from the thermoformer where the containments are tightly skin-packed. The feature that slim film covers the containment so tightly that leaves a lot of wrinkles making it not an ideal surface for display and information, for which extra packaging is required.

 

skin packed seafood in sleeve packaging

Source: Food Engineering

The sleever then places cardboard sleeves on each tray of seafood received, slides and wraps the sleeve around them, and secures the packaging with hot melt glue on the bottom. The package is usually not totally covered by the sleeve yet partially wrapped to offer a product view.

High Speed Tray Sleeving Machine for Seafood

ELITER Packaging Machinery offers a variety of packaging machines for either wrap-around sleeve or pre-glued sleeve to wrap your seafood in trays, either with modified atmosphere or packed as vacuum.

ESTRENA WAS-150 Wrap-Around Sleever

High speed auto sleeving machine

High-speed wrap-around sleever upto 150 packs per minute.

CRESCENDO DUET-200 Smart End-Load Cartoner

pre glue auto sleeving machine

End-load cartoner for food tray pre-glued sleeving, speed upto 180 packs per minute

 

Seafood in Cans with Packaging Sleeve

canned tuna maratun

Cans have been, for a long time, the trusted practice and a commonly recognized tradition for seafood packaging, among which there are tuna, crabs, salmons, sardines, and many others. Cans turn to be round shaped, and thus wrapping them with sleeves calls for a further method of securing.The cans, no matter in a single package or in form of multipack, are usually wrapped by a piece of carton sleeve with rim or edge-lock to provide security.

Latest Sleeving Machine for Canned Seafood

ELITER Packaging Machinery’s latest packaging machine is an efficient and competitive option for following your seafood processing line to organize and group your canned food in multipack sleeve packaging format.

seafood can packaging machine

Ask for more information about our Sleever

We have seen the upsurging market volume of ready and prepared meals, not only in China but as well at an international level. Meanwhile, the wrap-around application is getting more and more popular either for its own characteristics of great advertising performance or the global trend of replacing plastics with cardboard sleeves. ESTRENA™ Wrap-Around Sleever is exactly the fast, responsive, and standards-compliant solution we offer the market faced with these trends, and you can trust ESTRENA™ as the market-leading sleeve packaging machine for prepared or ready-to-cook meals in various forms.

 



About the Company
ÉLITER Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd
No.1088, Jing Ye Rd, Economic Development Zone, Dong Shan District, Ruian Wenzhou Zhejiang, China 325200
+86 (0577) 6668 2128
info@Eliter-Packaging.com
ÉLITER Packaging Machinery

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