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.

In 1937, Marguerite and Michel Metzger opened their butcher shop in the village of Ittenheim, close to Strasbourg, in the northeast of France.

Meat, poultry and seafood packaging ranks as a major consumer of specialty films, accounting for about one-third of the total market.