Viskase Holdings

Viskase Holdings, Inc. is a food packaging company that manufactures casings, bags, and other flexible packaging materials for the processed meat and protein industry, providing sausage makers, hot dog producers, deli meat manufacturers, and other meat processors with the functional packaging components required to produce consistent, attractive, and shelf-stable processed meat products. According to its website at viskase.com, the company's casings and packaging materials — including cellulose casings, collagen casings, fibrous casings, and plastic casings in various sizes and configurations — provide meat processors with the functional packaging solution that gives sausages, hot dogs, salami, bologna, and other processed meat products their characteristic shapes, textures, and presentation. Viskase's packaging materials serve both the consumable casing segment — where the casing is eaten along with the meat — and the non-consumable casing and packaging segment where casings and bags are removed before or during preparation.

Viskase's product portfolio, described at viskase.com, encompasses cellulose casings for skinless hot dogs and luncheon meats where the casing is removed after cooking and smoking; collagen casings for fresh and processed sausages where a thinner, edible casing provides natural appearance and eating characteristics; fibrous casings for large-diameter whole muscle products and deli meats; and plastic and multilayer barrier casings and bags for processed meat products requiring oxygen barrier protection and extended shelf life. The company manufactures its packaging materials at production facilities in North America and Europe, serving a global customer base of meat processors who require consistent, high-quality functional packaging that meets the hygiene, food safety, and performance specifications of commercial meat production. Viskase's manufacturing capabilities encompass both the materials science of casing and packaging production and the food contact safety requirements applicable to meat packaging materials.

Viskase Holdings serves the global processed meat industry — a large and established food manufacturing sector that produces billions of units of sausages, hot dogs, luncheon meats, and other processed protein products annually for retail and foodservice markets worldwide. According to viskase.com, the company's established customer relationships with major meat processors and its comprehensive product portfolio spanning all major casing and packaging categories provide stable, recurring business from meat processing customers who rely on Viskase as a trusted supplier of functional packaging components. Viskase Holdings' combination of processed meat packaging specialization, comprehensive casing and packaging product portfolio, North American and European manufacturing, global meat processor customer base, and established market position in the essential meat packaging market reflects its role as a significant participant in the food packaging industry serving the global processed protein sector.