Amcor announced “a significant extension” of its lamination, printing, and converting capabilities at its existing facilities to support the protein sector in North America. “The connection of new, state-of-the-art apparatus will enhance production now over the first half of 2026,” Amcor expressed in the statement.
The company named the protein packing potential extension one of its largest funds to date, but did not specify the scale of that funding.
Worldwide, flexible packaging sales account for over half of Amcor’s operations, clocking in at around $3.26 billion in net sales in the first quarter. Amcor stated that the improved production capacity for forming and non-forming packaging types will, in part, help extend its AmPrima line of packaging facilities, which currently comprises polyethylene pouches, bags, and other packages.
“This funding shows Amcor’s long-term strategy for development in the protein market and our continued leadership in growing the upcoming generation of high-performance and sustainable packing,” said Scott Fallon, global vice president and general manager of Amcor Flexibles protein division, in a statement. Protein is one of Amcor’s six high-growth, high-margin focus groups, which jointly account for half of its core portfolio. Trends influencing protein growth include online sales, brands’ demand for the finest packaging with raised shelf appeal, and category innovation, including varied pack sizes, as per an emailed statement from Melanie Bandari, a senior marketing manager for Amcor Flexibles North America Meat, Poultry & Seafood.
Amcor designs AmPrima packages as “recycle-ready” packing. In its recently released fiscal year 2025 sustainability account, Amcor noted that about half of its flexible packing production by weight was recycle-ready, which the business describes as “planned in a way that allows it to be recycled utilizing current technologies, though the structure for collecting, sorting, and recycling may not yet be extensively available.” Amcor highlighted an example of AmPrima in the statement: working with Canadian dairy firm Agropur on packaging for its finest cheddar cheese. Amcor declares that the switch from a paperboard overpack to the flexible set-up utilizing its flow wrap resulted in an 82% lighter-weight package, “intensely decreasing material utilization, GHG releases and supply chain charges.”
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