COMMERCIAL VS. HOME FOOD SEALERS
Commercial vacuum sealers differ from consumer (or [home") sealers in key ways. Commercial vacs are built heavier for the rigors of all-day use. They also have 100% duty cycles for continuous operation, while most consumer grade sealers require some cooling time between work cycles. A little-known advantage of commercial vacuum sealers is their operating cost advantage. For occasional-only users, the lower initial cost of a consumer sealer makes sense. But for moderate to higher volume vacuum sealing applications, you`ll save money with a commercial vacuum sealing machine.
Because plastic bags for commercial sealers (either chamber type or commercial external type with snorkel probe) don't require special features like surface ridges, they cost less than the bags used with consumer vac sealers. For the typical home user, using the ridged (aka "embossed") plastic with a low cost home-duty machine makes perfect sense because a much lower volume of plastic will be used during the life of the machine. But for medium or higher volume users (either at home or for a business), the lower cost of the smooth plastic used by commercial external or chamber vacuum sealers will save you a lot of money in the long run, and the breakeven point might arrive sooner than you'd think.
If you'll be using medium size bags, total costs to operate a commercial machine would reach breakeven compared to a consumer-duty machine when you've sealed about 1200 bags. At that point the commercial machine has paid for itself in plastic savings, then it keeps saving you money through continued use of the very economical commercial vacuum sealer bags. Add to this the commercial vacuum's convenient operation, longer life span and higher production rate, and the best vacuum sealer, even for home users, may be the one that costs a little more up front.
Whatever your needs, our wide selection of commercial vac sealers will allow you to choose the ideal type and size. Vac sealers are available from very compact units up to floor standing machines capable of vacuum sealing thousands of packages per hour.