Lacerta Group, LLC. published an article exploring what's driving the protein trend and its implications for grab-and-go food and packaging from 2019 to 2024.

Lacerta Group, LLC. has been a leading provider of innovative thermoformed packaging solutions since 1993. Our reputation is built on product integrity, excellent customer service, sustainability, and speed to market. Lacerta provides packaging and storage solutions for food processors and supermarkets. We offer a comprehensive product portfolio of PET packaging, sustainable packaging, and in-house design capabilities. Whatever your needs across the product life cycle, Lacerta’s fully integrated manufacturing platform can help you tackle any packaging challenge. Our capabilities include design and engineering, prototyping, mold-making and tooling, thermoforming, extrusion, and printing in our own facilities. Our customers drive our vision. We take a collaborative approach to developing all packaging, from design to delivery. From our sustainable 100% PCR packaging solutions to our tamper-evident Fresh n’ Sealed® PET line, our products meet every packaging need. Quality is vital to our customers–and to us. We maintain SQF certification in the Manufacturing of Food Packaging to ensure the highest global standards in quality. Lacerta Group, LLC is committed to reinvesting in the latest thermoforming technology. Today, we have five high-capacity extrusion lines and 48 state-of-the-art thermoformer lines, many of which support robotic automation. The company has also invested in technology to further our sustainability efforts. Our specialized units enable plastic recycling by reusing materials that would have been previously discarded. We’ve also adopted a cutting-edge life cycle assessment (LCA) tool to determine the environmental impact of our products. Headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts, Lacerta operates seven facilities in the United States: four in Mansfield, one in Chatsworth, California, one in Attleboro, MA, and one in Portage, Wisconsin. Lacerta, founded by the Lotfi family, became a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners in 2020.