Seafood has been on the move at retail, a phenomenon fueled in large part over the years by advances in case-ready packaging innovations, according to Taunton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-headquartered Harpak-ULMA.
Nowadays, seafood can be found at designated fresh counters, in frozen aisles, amongst canned goods, and in emerging grocery grab-and-go sections – all of which have seen increased traffic over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the packaging OEM told SeafoodSource.
Developments in vacuum skin packaging (VSP) and flow-wrap solutions have allowed many smaller grocers to create a fresh seafood presence in their stores where it didn’t exist before, while also giving large retail chains the ability to produce more seafood-forward prepared meals, Harpak-ULMA’s Ken Forziati, Product Manager for Thermoforming said…