Buoyed by wide acceptance in the UK, Multivac Inc. is mounting a North American push for VisionSeal, a system that delivers hermetically sealed packages of cooked meats and raw chicken.

English poultry processors face a September deadline to convert from over-wrapping to hermetically sealed packaging. That touched off a wave of packaging equipment purchases, and Multivac’s T-400 was the big winner, with more than 40 units sold in the last six months. U.S. processors may not be as highly motivated as their English counterparts, but people “want leak-proof” packages, points out Mark Wilhelm, Multivac’s traysealer product manager.