Shrink Bags

Shrink bags are suitable for fresh and processed meat, poultry and cheese.

Our shrink bag range guarantees an optimal look and longer shelf-life for your product, without compromising on performance.

All of our bags are EVOH based – no PVDc.

Our shrink bags can pack

cooked meat

fresh meat

fish

cheese

pet foods

tech specs

Fully recyclable: Contains an EVOH barrier, with no PVDC.
High Barrier properties: Protects against gases, water vapour and UV.
Reduced weight bags: Lowers total plastic consumption.
Withstands challenging environments: Provides packaging for oven or freezer use.
Strong and durable: Delivers excellent puncture resistance, even with sharp, bone-in foods.
Excellent shrink ratio: Reduces excess plastic by up to 50%, to create tight, aesthetically-pleasing packs.

no shrinking violet

perfect presentation with purpose

Achieving superb shrink, YPS' shrink bags offer significant improvements to pack finish for food producers:

The tighter shrink reduces irritating, ugly excess plastic.
The finish achieved is wrinkle-free.
The product is presented as cleanly and clearly to consumers as possible, allowing them to appreciate your product as fully as possible.

The robust bag and the seal that is formed ensure no penetration regardless of the shape or sharpness of your packed product. The robust pack protects the product and guards against fluid leakage.

Dependent on the formula selected, the product can be oven- or microwave-cooked or frozen within its shrink bag. Utilising the same pack throughout the product's journey reduces plastic waste and hugely improves convenience for both producers and their consumers.

Benefits of Shrink Bags

Impervious barrier: The EVOH layer creates a robust barrier that keeps the product protected - a barrier that can be 10,000 times greater than that within standard LDPE films.
Fully recyclable: YPS shrink bags are based on environmentally-friendly EVOH and contain no non-recyclable PVDC.
Strong and secure: Shrink bags are resistant to penetration, even from sharp or oddly-shaped products such as bone-in joints, ensuring they always perform throughout their journey from producer to table.

Discover more about our shrink bags

Our team of packaging experts would love to hear from you - whether you're looking for more information about this material, advice about other material options or seeking details on machinery choices.

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YPS holds extensive stocks of packaging materials in our centrally-located warehouse, for despatch to our customers across the UK & Ireland, usually with next-day delivery.

We can offer a call-off facility, holding stocks of customer-specific materials, for example printed products, ready to be shipped whenever you need them.

All of the materials we supply are from trusted manufacturers producing quality packaging solutions.

From manufacture through to storage and distribution, all of our products are certified to the highest BRC accredited AA standard.

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