LVP Automation offers advanced tray sealing machines designed to provide airtight and secure packaging for a wide range of products. Ideal for industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, and electronics, these reliable tray sealers help preserve product freshness, quality, and safety throughout storage and transport. With customisable options and high-speed processing, LVP’s tray sealers meet diverse packaging requirements while enhancing production efficiency.
A tray sealer joins a lidding film to a tray, and everything the pack claims about freshness, shelf life and safety rests on that one joint. The tray material, the film and the sealing parameters work as a single system, so changing any one of them changes the other two. That is why a tray sealer is specified around your pack rather than off a rate sheet, and why the seal window has to be proven with your actual tray and film rather than assumed from a datasheet.
Gas flush, or modified atmosphere packaging, replaces the air in the pack with a gas mix chosen for the product. Vacuum plus gas draws the air out first and then backfills, which removes more of the residual oxygen. MAP is the usual choice where the pack has to look full and the product should not be compressed. Vacuum plus gas earns its place where oxygen sensitivity is the whole point. Both are only as good as the seal holding them in.
PP, PET and rPET, CPET and aluminium are all workable, and each seals differently. Recycled content in rPET is usually the sustainability move, but recycled material varies more batch to batch than virgin does, so the sealing parameters need more headroom. Aluminium behaves differently again. The practical answer is to fix the tray material early and set the sealing parameters and tooling against it, rather than switching substrate after the machine is specified.
Peelable, anti-fog and recyclable films are all supported, and each has its own seal window. Peelable matters where the consumer opens the pack by hand rather than cutting it. Anti-fog matters where the product is visible and condensation would hide it. Recyclable film is where the sustainability commitment usually lands, and it is also where seal windows narrow, so validate it with your product rather than treating it as a like for like swap.
Seal integrity can be verified inline with leak detection and vision inspection for seal contamination, alongside date and lot printing and barcode verification. Contamination in the seal area is the classic failure, because a fleck of product across the sealing surface produces a pack that looks right and leaks anyway. Catching that inline is far cheaper than a customer complaint or a recall.
Quick change tooling handles a range of tray sizes, and recipes store temperature, time, pressure and MAP settings per product so a changeover is a selection rather than a set-up. On a line running several SKUs a day this is the specification detail that decides real output, because the alternative is an operator dialling in parameters from memory and a first pallet nobody is quite sure about.
Stainless frames, smooth surfaces, guarded enclosures and easy clean designs suit food and pharma environments and support HACCP compliant operation. Maintenance is routine cleaning, seal jaw inspection, film path checks and scheduled servicing of the pneumatics and drives. Seal jaw condition is the one to watch, because jaws wear gradually and the seal degrades before anything obvious fails, which is exactly the kind of drift a maintenance plan is for.
Rate is set by tray size, cavity count and film type rather than by the machine alone, so it is sized to your target packs per minute and the dwell time your seal needs. In the line it sits alongside vertical form fill seal and thermoforming depending on the pack, and hands off through PLC and HMI handshakes to fillers, weighers, vision, checkweighers and end of line machines, all specifiable as one complete packaging line. LVP Automation specifies, installs and supports tray sealing machines from Finglas, Dublin 11 as part of our wider automation services.
Airtight seals (with MAP/vacuum options) maintain product quality, extend shelf life and support HACCP-compliant operations.
Quick-change tooling handles a range of tray sizes and materials (PP, PET/rPET, CPET, aluminium), keeping changeovers fast and reliable.
Interfaces cleanly with conveyors, fillers, weighers, vision, print/label and case packing, minimal disruption, faster ROI.
Quick answers on materials, formats, MAP, speeds, hygiene, changeovers and integration.
Common options include PP, PET/rPET, CPET and aluminium. We match sealing parameters and tooling to your chosen substrate.
Yes, gas flush (MAP) and vacuum + gas options are available to extend shelf life and improve presentation.
Throughput depends on tray size, cavity count and film type. We size the machine to your target packs per minute and dwell time.
Quick-change tooling and recipe-based settings minimise downtime when switching tray sizes or SKUs.
Yes, add leak detection, vision inspection for seal contamination, date/lot printing and barcode verification.
Stainless frames, smooth surfaces, guarded enclosures and easy-clean designs suitable for food and pharma environments.
We support a wide range of films (peelable, anti-fog, recyclable). We’ll validate seal windows for your sustainability goals.
PLC/HMI handshakes to fillers, weighers, conveyors, printers/label applicators, checkweighers, vision and end-of-line case packing.
Yes, temperature, time, pressure and MAP settings are stored as recipes for fast, repeatable set-ups.
Routine cleaning, seal jaw inspection, film path checks and scheduled servicing of pneumatics/drives; we provide a maintenance plan.
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