Prestage Foods, a division of Prestage Farms, is a 260,000-square-foot turkey-processing facility and distribution center in St. Pauls, N.C., that supplies supermarkets along the East Coast with fresh and frozen hen turkeys.
When given a choice between a product in a flexible package and one in a sealed thermoformed tray, consumers are more likely to buy the trayed product, according to a study by Package InSight, LLC.
Shipments of U.S. packaging machinery increased by 6 percent in 2013, reaching a total of $7.9 billion, according to the 2014 State of the Industry Report from PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.
PMMI’s Vice President of Industry Services Tom Egan talks about the advantages of Pack Expo teaming up with Pharma Expo, and he looks ahead to Pack Expo East.
Flexible packaging for meat, poultry and seafood was valued at $1.9 billion in 2013 in the United States and is growing about 1 percent per year, according to “North American Flexible Packaging Market to 2018,” a report published by PCI Films Consulting, Ltd.
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