Interpack live: Sealpac premiers “new generation” Amax electric-powered traysealer

04 May 2023 --- As the packaging industry gathers in Düsseldorf, Germany, for the Interpack trade show, PackagingInsights spotlights the debut of Sealpac’s semi-automatic traysealer. 

“As a world premiere, we are showing a brand new semi-automatic tray sealer,” Marcel Veenstra, marketing and communications manager at Sealpac, tells us. 

The machine has all the options that fully automatic traysealers have in terms of film transport, sealing capacity and the packaging concepts it can run. Sustainable concepts, such as paper-based packaging, can also run on the Amax traysealer.

“It’s a new generation that hasn’t been seen yet in semi-automatic traysealing,” continues Veenstra. “This Amax traysealer is fully electric. It doesn’t need any air connections to compress air and it doesn’t need any water connections, either. Put the plug in, and it works. So that has environmental benefits.”

“The traysealer machine can run to assist smaller companies that don’t have the high output to run fully automatic and still be able to introduce this sustainable packaging to the market.”

At Interpack 2023, Sealpac’s motto, “Go sustainable,” is taking center stage. Apart from the semi-automatic traysealer that can package a large variety of products in small quantities, the company is presenting high-output traysealers and thermoformers that are fully prepared for Industry 4.0. These energy-efficient machines produce attractive packs with “highly economical use of materials.”

Sealpac is currently displaying its semi-automatic traysealer at Interpack 2023.Versatile, yet compact
Furthermore, Veenstra shares that the company is displaying a range of supermarket packaging concepts at the trade show. “We have a big supermarket section showing all the packaging concepts we can supply worldwide, which all run on our traysealers and thermoformers. These are focused around the company’s ‘Go sustainable’ initiative, where we’re trying to develop new concepts that reduce plastics and boost recyclability of remaining plastic packaging.”

According to Sealpac, despite its compact and solid design, the new traysealer reliably processes all common consumables, including ultra-light trays, the latest sustainable films, as well as hybrid trays and boards with a high fiber content.

Veenstra further details that the Amax traysealers allow smooth production runs and are characterized by their low-wear and low-maintenance design, driven by servo motors. Although Sealpac has a substantial share in food, especially meat, poultry and seafood, its machines can package anything, he says. 

“This new semi-automatic traysealer is also very suitable for catering companies because the catering segment is struggling to get personnel.”

Veenstra continues that the company heard an interesting story in Austria about restaurants having trouble finding personnel at the ski areas, “so they’re now setting up central catering locations, from which they supply to the restaurants. Decentralized catering can be done with this new traysealer.”

Sealpac’s Amax series of traysealers are equipped with a quick exchange system, fully integrated connections, and a practical trolley that enables changeovers in just a few minutes. Modern RFID technology is applied to ensure that the right combination of tooling and grippers is used.

The Amax process “ultra-light” trays, the weight of which has been reduced by 20% compared to conventional MAP (modified atmosphere packaging) trays. Hybrid packaging concepts with reduced plastic and high cardboard content, such as eTray, FlatSkin or FlatMap, can also be handled by the new traysealers.

PackagingInsights is reporting live from Interpack 2023 at booth B83 in Hall 8A.

By Radhika Sikaria, with live reporting from Louis Gore-Langton