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VersaPack's parent company is also A pouch-making room at VersaPack

expanding its in-house capabilities. In less than a decade, the company has grown to include 13 Nishibe and Totani pouch-making machines, with two more to be added by the end of 2003.

Furthermore, VersaPack recently co-developed a process, with Dow Chemical, using a blowing tower configured to improve the production of retort cast polypropylene (RCPP)—the substance used to increase the strength of retort pouches—while reducing costs. With the recent purchase of a new blowing tower, VersaPack's total comes to three, with a fourth to be added in the next 12 to 18 months.