As people are growing conscious of their food habits, health, hygiene as well as environmental issues, they seek sustainable ways of living. Along with government regulations, retailer pressure and consumer demand, nowadays packaging manufacturers and suppliers are trying to use eco-friendly and sustainable packaging materials. Nowadays, for casing sausages, non-biodegradable plastic materials are used. These are available at cost-effective prices and are pretty much considered safe.
Quality Plastic Sausage Casing
Plastic sausage casings are usually available in the form of plastic tubes. Sheep and lamb meat stuffed inside plastic tubes can easily be placed in casings by a sausage maker to be delivered or stored in a freezer. Nowadays, plastic sausage casings come with seams that allow casings to break open easily, with greater efficiency. Once the case is broken, the sausages can be pulled out. Plastic sausage casings are also called ‘zip tubes’, because of the zipper like nature of the casing seam. For further packaging, the tubed plastic sausage casings are wrapped in plastic nets and then placed into plastic drums that contain saturated salt brine. The drums are available in varying diameters and lengths which can be greater than 3 metres. Even beef is stuffed in tubed plastic sausage casings, available either in brine or salted.
Small or medium sausage businesses often order vacuum-sealed plastic sausage casings commonly called vacuum casings. Sausage casings made of plastic and cellulose are usually inedible. To be eaten the casings need to be peeled of for consumption, unlike natural sausage casings.
Materials Used for Making Plastic Sausage Casings
Plastic sausage casings are generally made of the following materials:
Polymers like Polyamide
Polypropylene or polyethylene
Polyamide made plastic sausage casings are frequently used for the production of cooked hams and sausages, bologna and luncheon meats. Further, polyamide casings are available in oriented and non-oriented polyamide.
Attributes of Polyamide Plastic Casings
Polyamide made plastic casings come with the following attributes :
Plastic casings made of polyamide reduce water loss during cooking as they are shrinkable.
Non-oriented polyamide plastic casings remain the same in diameter and allow the meat to expand during cooking.
Multilayered plastic casings are airtight allowing the sausages to remain fresh.
Plastic casings are also good for and provide protection to the sausages. It keeps the pollutants away.
Quality plastic casings are resistant to smoke and moisture.
Provides better moisture control.
Packaging companies in Australia can supply customised plastic casings at affordable prices. According to your requirements, they can be made available in different sizes. You can order in bulk and get your plastic casings at reasonable rates. High tech types of equipment are used to manufacture such full-proof packaging cases. They ensure the quality and guarantee the efficiency of their plastic cases. Apart from plastic cases, various other food packaging supplies are available for diverse needs like distribution and marketing. Now, you can even order packages online from your zone of comfort.