Vacuum sealing services play a crucial role in the preservation of foods and other perishable or organic materials. Vacuum seal equipment manufacturers offer two main types of vacuum sealing device--commercial vacuum sealing machines and home vacuum sealers.

Both types of vacuum sealing equipment require additional vacuum sealing supplies such as pouches or bags. You can buy these supplies from providers of vacuum sealing equipment when you purchase your sealer as a kit, or as a separate order later on. If you're vacuum sealing as part of a small food service business or home business, a simple kitchen vacuum sealing kit can be a great tool.

When looking for vacuum sealing equipment, do the following:

1. Shop for commercial equipment from vacuum sealing companies;

2. Consider heat sealing for your vacuum sealing services;

3. Do small-scale sealing for your home business with kitchen sealers.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Shop vacuum seal equipment manufacturers for commercial equipment

Vacuum sealing companies primarily produce large, commercial grade vacuum sealers for use in the food production and storage industry. Commercial vacuum sealers come in several varieties, including external sealers and chamber sealers, which in turn may be single or double chamber. If you have limited floor space for sealing machinery, you can also get table-top vacuum sealers.

I recommend: Pleasant Hill Grain sells commercial chamber-type and external-type sealers, as well as home sealers and bags for commercial sealing. Doug Care Equipment sells a range of vacuum sealing equipment, including single and double chamber sealers, clean-room compatible and table-top sealers.

Investigate heat sealing as an option for vacuum sealing services

Heat sealing offers an innovative option to providers of vacuum sealing services. Heat vacuum sealing machines, like other commercial sealers, are large pieces of machinery, but offer a different type of seal and have additional features such as shrink wrapping in addition to vacuum sealing.

I recommend: Therm-O-Seal sells both heat sealers and accessories. ALINE offers a range of heat vacuum sealing equipment with specifications to compare for a large number of different machines.

Buy vacuum sealing supplies for your sealing equipment

You can buy vacuum sealing supplies separately from commercial sealing equipment or get one in a kit with smaller kitchen vacuum sealers. You can buy commercial pouches and some kitchen pouches in different sizes and in bulk for your vacuum sealing needs.

I recommend: Buy pouches and other vacuum sealing equipment from the Vacuum Sealing Store. If you're shopping for a complete vacuum sealing kit with supplies included, try a Food Saver kitchen vacuum sealing kit.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Machinery for vacuum sealing services can be extremely costly. Most manufacturers of commercial grade vacuum sealers offer financing plans, but you can also save by shopping for a refurbished or used vacuum sealing machine or renting a machine from another business in the food production and packaging industry.