Vacuum Pouches

Please follow the links below to the many different types of vacuum pouches that we carry. The links will take you to our other site at www.dougcare.com. Our shopping cart will allow you to carry one order forward from both sites. All the pouches listed on these pages are "stock" pouches except the custom jerky pouches. We may not have all of them in inventory but they are all readily available in as small an order as one case. We even have flat bags or micro-layered bags available in less than case quantities for the home processor who just can't use a full case of a particular size.

All of the pouches on these links are available for online purchase.
Special quantity pricing is in effect for most stock pouches except the micro-layered pouches and custom jerky pouches. Mix and match 3 & 4 mil standard barrier (V3R & V4R), high barrier EVOH (D1), 3mil boilable (V3L), 3 mil zipper (ZIPV & ZIPVB), generic jerky (GJ) and 3 mil safe handling vacuum pouches (SHI3) and we will subtract the following from your total pouch order:

5 cartons = -5%,
10 cartons = -8%,
20 cartons = -12%,
Order $1500 of these assorted types and get free freight!

Go ahead and use our on line order system and the single carton prices. We will automatically subtract the quantity discount from your order and we will confirm the price on all $500 orders and above with you by e-mail or phone before shipping.

Be careful ordering these pouches - they are not returnable because they can be used in FDA regulated food plants.

We now have vacuum pouch material available in rolls, both for home machines with a channel and for chamber & retractable nozzle machines without the channel. Special sizes and materials are available for all the flat pouches. Please contact us for a quote.

We carry several different types of pouches. High barrier EVOH pouches, standard barrier pouches and zipper pouches with or without EVOH. All plastic material has what is called an oxygen transfer rate (OTR). The OTR of the pouch you use for long term storage is important because the longer the product stays oxygen free, the longer it will last. The OTR of the pouch combined with the use of a vacuum sealer to remove the air is the major factor that determines the shelf life of stored food. EVOH is the material designed to decrease the OTR of pouches and make them a higher barrier.

Our best pouches for storage are our 3 Mil High Barrier with EVOH or 3 Mil High Barrier Zipper pouches with EVOH. They have an OTR of 2.3 cc/sq. meter. It is commonly used commercially for smoked and dried items such as jerky, luncheon meats and cheese. Our 3 Mil Standard Barrier pouch has an OTR of 52 cc/sq. meter. This pouch, or its slightly thicker version , the 4 Mil Standard Barrier, is used by most commercial meat processors for meat storage and/or aging after processing.

For packaging industrial parts you should look at either the 4 Mil or the 3 Mil Standard Barrier pouches.

If you are vacuum packing meat and freezing it you can use the 3 Mil Standard Barrier pouch. The OTR is slowed almost to a stop when the product is frozen and this pouch will virtually eliminate the freezer burn that meat gets (very quickly, I might add) when placed in the freezer in the traditional supermarket stretch wrap film/tray pack.

All the pouches listed above with the exception of the micro-layered pouches will run on chamber vacuum machines and retractable nozzle vacuum machines ONLY. The micro-layered pouches and the Channel Rolls are the only pouches that will work on the typical home machines such as Fast Vac, Mini 2010, Food Vac, Best Vac, Foodsaver®, Magic-Vac®, etc.