The pillow pack is traditionally one of the primary solutions for the se-cure and attractive packaging of food products, such as meat and sau-sages, cheese, snacks, bakery products and fruit. Pillow packs are also widely used to protect industrial and pharmaceutical products. The low material input and the ease of integration into other processes are the main features of this packaging solution, and the flowpacker perfectly complements the current MULTIVAC product range. With the addition of the new W 500 horizontal flowpacker, MULTIVAC is now expanding its equipment range and turning its extensive technical and packaging expertise to a new area of application. “Thanks to the new W 500 in our product range, we can now offer our customers an even greater choice of solutions to meet their exact requirements. And with the W 500 as with all our other equipment, we can offer the right packaging materials, so that the pillow packs are environmentally-friendly and recyclable. Being able to offer the complete package is very important to us, and we will continue to expand this, so that we can cov-er all the future requirements of our customers,” explains Kim Hüther, Executive Vice President of Tray & Pouch Packaging at MULTIVAC. “The main features of the W 500 flowpacker are its easy operation, cleaning and maintenance, as well as an attractive price-to-performance ratio. It can be used as a stand-alone solution, or it can be integrated into an automated line - as will be seen at the trade fairs.” The new solution is ideally suited to the sustainable packaging of prod-ucts such as minced meat, burgers, cevapcici, sausages, cheese and fro-zen fish. And bakery products such as baguettes, croissants and pizzas, as well as many types of fruit and vegetables, can also be packaged se-curely in pillow packs with very