Ready Meal Packaging

Ready Meal Packaging Solutions – Tray Sealing, Thermoforming, and Labeling Equipment

Ossid uses a variety of packaging solutions to meet the unique requirements of the ready meal packaging industry.

Ossid delivers a wide range of ready meal packaging solutions tailored to meet the unique demands of the industry. From tray sealers to advanced thermoforming systems, each machine is engineered to efficiently package both single-serving and family-sized ready meals, ensuring product integrity and extended shelf life.

With extensive experience in chef-prepared grab-and-go meal packaging for hotels, universities, hospitals, and convenience stores, Ossid partners with a diverse range of clients to ensure every meal is packaged safely, securely, and in compliance with industry standards.

Ossid offers both fully automated and semi-automatic tray sealing solutions. The Reepack Series of tray sealing machines accommodates a wide variety of tray sizes and packaging formats, making them ideal for ready meal packaging applications. These tray sealers support multiple package types and can be quickly changed over to new product “recipes” within minutes, enhancing operational efficiency.

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Reepack ReeTray 30 Semi-Automatic Tray Sealer

The Reepack ReeTray 30 is a semi-automatic tray sealer designed for small to medium-sized processors in the ready meal packaging industry. The ReeTray 30 excels in three types of sealing – ambient tray sealing, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), and vacuum skin packaging (VSP) – ensuring product freshness, extended shelf life, and secure sealing for ready-to-eat meals.

Equipped with a chambered system, the ReeTray 30 packages products in lidding/VSP trays and flat cardboard, making it suitable for VSP skin-on-board applications. This flexibility allows larger processors to leverage the ReeTray 30 for test marketing new products in laboratory environments before scaling up to full production.

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Reepack ReeEco Tray Sealer

The Reepack ReeEco is a fully automated tray sealer designed to meet high-performance demands in ready meal packaging while maintaining a compact footprint. Featuring three loading positions and intuitive, user-friendly controls, the ReeEco maximizes efficiency and productivity. This advanced sealing system ensures food stays fresh, secure, and shelf-ready, supporting modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) and vacuum skin packaging (VSP) for extended product shelf life.

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Reepack ReeForm Thermoformer Series

The Reepack ReeForm Thermoformer Series offers a high-performance solution for ready meal packaging applications. By utilizing thermoformers, processors can eliminate the need for pre-formed trays, reducing storage requirements and material costs. These systems create securely sealed flex-flex or semi-rigid packages, ensuring product integrity and extending shelf life for ready-to-eat meals.

Alongside tray sealers and thermoformers, Ossid provides high-speed print-and-apply labelers that seamlessly integrate into both existing and new packaging lines, enhancing efficiency and product traceability.

As the North American master distributor of the Reepack brand, Ossid delivers comprehensive sales, service, parts, and support. This partnership expands Ossid’s product portfolio, allowing our expert sales team to recommend the best ready meal packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s needs and production goals. Whether optimizing for efficiency, sustainability, or packaging style, Ossid ensures your products are packaged securely and reliably.

Material Considerations for Ready Meal Packaging

Material selection is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to type of product, anticipated shelf life, shipping method and duration, package style format, and type of equipment used. An Ossid sales representative can help you determine which package format would be most suitable for your needs.

Films – Barrier Lidding or VSP for tray seal, wide variety for HFFS

Trays – Polystyrene, Plastic, Cardboard

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Ossid Equipment Ideal for Ready Meal Packaging

Ossid is the industry leader in leak-resistant tray sealing for case-ready products, ready meal packaging, flexible healthcare packaging, and horizontal thermoform, fill, and seal equipment. Our solutions include flow wrapping machines, weigh/price labeling equipment, and case scales, catering to processors of all sizes worldwide.

Ossid’s packaging systems are ideal for fresh and processed meats, produce, bakery items, convenience foods, consumer goods, and medical devices. As a trusted brand under ProMach – a global leader in packaging line solutions – Ossid provides innovative, high-performance packaging that enhances product safety, extends shelf life, and drives operational efficiency.

As part of the ProMach Flexibles & Trays business line, Ossid empowers customers to protect their products, strengthen their brand reputation, and build consumer trust. ProMach is performance, and the proof is in every package.