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.
According to a recent study from PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the number of manufacturing locations using robots has more than tripled since 2008
With film-based packaging (bags, peelable pouches, vacuum packs, zipper packs, etc.) having become so popular for meat, poultry and seafood products, upgrading or adding a packaging line often involves a form/fill/seal (FFS) machine.