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Today's chub packaging for meats simplifies handling for consumers and on the packaging line. When research showed consumers want to minimize contact with raw meat, Cargill added an easy-peel feature to its Our Certified brand of ground beef in one-pound chubs.

Matrix Packaging Machinery, a member of the ProMach family of brands, introduces the high speed Morpheus XL vertical form/fill/seal bagger, a new solution for accurately forming and filling narrow to extra wide bags of frozen poultry pieces at up to 120 bags per minute on one compact platform. 

Ossid, a product brand of ProMach, will unveil its next generation 500E leak-resistant overwrapper for case-ready poultry packaging at International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE).

The global sanitary food and beverage packaging market is likely to grow at a CAGR of nearly 6% during the forecast period 2017-2021, according to Future Market Insights (FMI). Increasing emphasis on maintaining food safety during the supply chain is promoting investments by manufacturers.

Beginning this holiday season, consumers can now get to know the exact family farmer who raised their Honeysuckle White brand holiday turkey, through a first-to-market blockchain solution. Consumers in select markets can simply text or enter an on-package code at HoneysuckleWhite.com to access the farm's location by state and county, view the family farm story, see photos from the farm and read a message from the farmer.

Eagle Product Inspection has launched the RMI 400, a system designed specifically for the poultry industry.

Specialty egg brand NestFresh launches both an expanded pasture-raised line and hard-cooked eggs.

When Oberto reformulated some of their beef jerky products, it ran into issues with smaller product particulates getting caught in the seal area, thus causing leakers and rejects. To solve production challenges, Oberto turned to Triangle Package Machinery Company.