25 May 2022 --- Meat packaging innovation, like many other industry areas, has been under mounting pressure to achieve hygiene and quality control while reducing emissions and material use simultaneously. These demands are further compounded by rising raw material prices, cost inflation and supply chain issues that have cascaded over the past three years. The COVID-19 pandemic, international trade disputes, economic inflation, raw material shortages, and now the Ukraine war have steadily raised higher and higher hurdles for packaging producers to jump as they strive to achieve ambitious circular economy targets.