Flexible Pouch Drying: Overcoming the Challenge In a landscape once dominated by metal cans and glass bottles, flexible and retort pouch packaging has exploded into a $25.5 billion dollar industry in the United States (Flexible Packaging Association, 2011). While offering cost- savings and brand differentiation opportunities, flexible and retort pouches also pose end process challenges - especially end process pouch drying. "In pouch drying, the challenge is drying the hard-to-reach places unique to flexible packaging - the gussets and the flexible pouch undersides which collect steam condensation and are out-of-reach for traditional drying systems," explains Scott Lynn, JetAir Technologies' Eastern Regional Sales Manager. For years, Wornick Foods - like the rest of the flexible packaging

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