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The Australian Pouch Company (Auspouch) is featuring its key partners on stand G060 at Auspack this year, in the fields of food processing, filling, and handling.

With its thirty years in the flexible packaging industry, Auspack has developed key partnerships in food manufacturing, processing and filling technology as well as end-of-line automation for food and non-food applications, the company says.

These partners include Gualapack, spouted pouch technology specialists, who will announce a new, faster eight-head filler plus other packaging innovations; end-of-line automation experts GPI, who have a range of case packing and palletising solutions, wrap-around machines, forming units and AGVs; Martini SRL, known for vertical form fill and seal solutions for pasta, who will exhibit the Unica700 VFFS machine that can create five different pack styles from reel stock; and Plexpack Corporation, which manufactures flexible packaging solutions including Emplex bag and pouch sealers, vacuum sealers, and Damark shrink wrap and bundling systems.

According to Auspouch, its focus is on providing quality functional solutions to packaging needs.

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