The U.S. meat market was valued at approximately $68 billion in 2013 and is projected to reach $84 billion by 2018, according to Canadean’s 2015 “Consumer and Market Insights: Meat Market in the U.S.” report.
Protein products presented in patty or sliced form often depend on interleaving and stacking prior to being packaged in film on a form-fill-seal machine or loaded into trays or cartons.
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.