Hygienic design thermoformers for skin packaging
Optimize vacuum sealing for enhanced shelf life and presentation with precise skin packaging, ensuring your products retain their freshness and visual appeal while preventing exudation and supporting flexible display options.

Thermoforms and Seals Hygienic Vacuum Skin Packs
The TFS SKIN hygienic design thermoformers from ULMA Packaging are tailored for meat, poultry, fish, and ready meal processors aiming to enhance product shelf life and presentation. These machines use a thermoforming process to create vacuum skin packs that adhere tightly around products, preventing exudation and delaying microbial growth. With options for rigid or flexible trays, vertical display packaging, and integration of protective gases or promotional items, these thermoformers support diverse product needs, from beef steaks and smoked ham to cheddar cheese blocks. Operating at high speeds with continuous workflows, TFS SKIN models like the TFS 407 to TFS 707 allow for shape and dimension customization, ensuring seamless integration into existing processing lines. The machines are crafted to optimize sealing precision while maintaining hygiene standards, simplifying maintenance and cleaning with easy-open pack features. Optional PLC integration and engineering support facilitate tailored installations, ensuring efficient and reliable operations within various industrial settings.
Benefits
- Extends product shelf life by preventing exudation and microbial growth.
- Enhances product presentation with customized vacuum skin packs.
- Supports vertical display to optimize retail space.
- Reduces waste with efficient liquid and gas retention.
- Enables flexible packaging options to meet diverse product requirements.
- Applications
- Ready meals,Pates,Cheese,Poultry,Processed meat,Fresh meat,Fish
- End products
- Lasagna,Salmon fillets,Pork chops,Chicken breasts,Blue cheese crumbles,Chicken liver pâté,Shrimp,Beef steaks,Turkey slices,Marinated chicken thighs,Macaroni and cheese,Smoked ham,Duck liver pâté,Cheddar cheese blocks,Gouda slices
- Steps before
- Preparation,Portioning,Seasoning
- Steps after
- Labeling,Vertical Display,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- fresh meat,processed meat,fish,poultry,ready meals,cheese,pates
- Output ingredients
- vacuum packs,skin packs,extended shelf life packs,vertically displayable packs,liquid retaining packs,customized shape and dimension packs
- Market info
- ULMA Packaging Spain is renowned for designing and manufacturing innovative, customized packaging solutions for the food, pharmaceutical, and non-food industries, emphasizing advanced automation technology, sustainability, and high-quality service.
- Shelf life extension
- Extended
- Film sealing
- Entire surface except the product area
- Self liquid retention
- Yes
- Vertical display capability
- Yes
- Product fit
- Second skin packaging
- Customization options
- Shape and dimensions
- Support options
- Rigid / Flexible
- Additional lid option
- Yes
- Protective gas addition
- Possible
- Working mechanism
- Thermoforming
- Integrated steps
- Packing,Sealing
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Exudation control
- Self liquid retention
- Product display compatibility
- Vertical display
- Customization options
- Shape and dimensions
- Support types
- Rigid and flexible
- Gas inclusion option
- Protective gas between films
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Container type
- Rigid support as tray / Flexible support
- Vertical display capability
- Yes
- Suitable for food types
- Fresh meat,Processed meat,Fish,Poultry,Ready meals,Cheese,Pates
- Film type and size
- Specially designed films
- Support options
- Rigid or flexible support
- Pack shape and dimensions
- Customizable
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen HMI
- Support material
- Rigid/Flexible
- Packaging shape
- Customizable
- Packaging dimensions
- Customizable
- Lid option
- Additional lid for labeling