CRYOVAC® Brand Polypropylene VSP Trays

Discover the advantages of CRYOVAC® brand Polypropylene preformed VSP Trays, designed to enhance product longevity and streamline production processes. 

 

Made from high-barrier polypropylene materials, these trays effectively extend shelf life while ensuring optimal efficiency. When these trays are hermetically sealed with CRYOVAC® brand Darfresh® vacuum skin films, the result is a leak-proof package that not only protects your products but also presents them attractively — ideal for direct transfer from store to consumer to freezer.

Choose from a wide array of sizes, tray configurations or colors tailored to meet your specific needs. These trays are engineered for high-speed production and optimal merchandising for a variety of case-ready foods including meats, poultry, ready meals, and snacks.

Available in multiple recyclable or post-consumer recycled (PCR) content configurations, CRYOVAC® brand PP VSP Trays deliver premium product protection while supporting sustainable practices in skin pack applications.

Features and Benefits

  • High barrier, laminated polypropylene with a barrier sealant
  • Wide range of sizes and tray configurations available
  • Available with easy-open or lock-down top web sealant
  • Designated RIC5 – PP, recyclable where facilities exist
  • Optional use of post-consumer recycled content
  • Designed for use with CRYOVAC® Darfresh® vacuum skin packaging top films
  • Compatible with wide variety of tray/skin and VSP equipment
  • Bottom carrier that creates leakproof VSP for case-ready retail, e-commerce, convenience, and vending applications

Specifications

  • Complies with FDA requirements for food packaging, Letter of Guarantee available on request.
  • Dimensions: wide range of sizes and shapes
  • Production Format: premade tray, polypropylene (PP)
  • Seal Type: lock-down or easy-open
  • Colors: clear, white, or black

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Frequently Asked Questions

Polypropylene provides excellent moisture and oxygen barrier characteristics that help minimize spoilage and preserve freshness. Unlike certain other materials, polypropylene can withstand a wide range of temperatures making it suitable and safe to be frozen, refrigerated or heated in a microwave or oven. Many polypropylene trays are considered recyclable where RIC-5 recycling facilities exist, making PP trays one of the most widely used and popular choices for food tray packaging.

Yes – but many municipalities lack the equipment needed to handle them, and therefore either don’t accept them or sort them out of their recycling stream and send them to a landfill. Our Polypropylene VSP Trays have been certified as compatible with RIC-5 recycling streams where facilities exist, which is why they are labeled “check locally.".