Consumers increasingly demand food freshness, high-quality packaging, hygiene, and strong brand image. As a result, the meat packaging industry is steadily moving toward automation, standardization, and higher-quality standards.
Selecting the right packaging equipment for specific products has become a key factor for companies to enhance their competitiveness.
Meat products contain high levels of moisture, fat, and protein, making them susceptible to oxidation, spoilage, and bacterial growth due to exposure to air and temperature fluctuations. Therefore, vacuum packaging has become an essential method in the modern meat industry.
The most common vacuum packaging formats are bagged vacuum and tray-based vacuum packaging.
Tray-based vacuum packaging is achieved using skin packaging machines and is commonly applied to high-value meat products such as premium steaks.
During the packaging process, products are placed on trays or paperboards while the skin film is heated and softened. The machine removes the air inside the package, and vacuum pressure tightly conforms the film to the product shape, creating a “second-skin” packaging effect.
This packaging method not only delivers an attractive product presentation but also helps extend shelf life through high-vacuum preservation.
However, many conventional meat products do not use skin vacuum packaging. Compared with product presentation, these products place greater emphasis on transportation stability, vacuum performance, and sealing consistency. Bagged vacuum packaging is therefore more commonly used for such applications.
The Jetken Vacuum Packaging Machines are specifically developed for these packaging requirements, focusing on stable vacuum performance, reliable sealing, and continuous production efficiency.
The meat industry also includes many ready-to-eat products such as jerky, chicken legs, sausages, and marinated snacks.
These products require not only higher vacuum stability and sealing quality, but also greater attention to production efficiency, packaging appearance, and freshness preservation.
For these applications, Jetken provides more automated and continuous vacuum packaging solutions to help manufacturers reduce labor costs, improve packaging consistency, and meet the high-speed production demands of modern food factories.
