Man-made sausage casings, also known as artificial casings, are manufactured casings that are used to encase sausages during the production process. These casings are made from a variety of materials including collagen casing, cellulose casing, and plastic sausage casing.
The global man-made sausage casing market size was worth around USD 2.23 Billion in 2023 and is predicted to grow about USD 5.41 Billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of approximately 6.7 percent over the forecast period from 2024 to 2030.
casings for sausage is a material that encloses the filling of the meat and gives the sausage its size, shape, and integrity. The casing plays an important role in the chemical, structural, and volumetric changes that tend to take place in sausages at the time of different stages of manufacturing. There are two types of casings namely man-made and natural. Man-made casings are widely preferred over natural casings due to the immense hygienic benefits it offers.
These casings are unsusceptible to microbial contamination, and hence provide uniformity ensuring limited or no risk of the products being spoiled during transportation and storage. Man-made casings can either be edible or non-edible as they can be derived from cellulose, synthetic fibers, collagen, animal, and polymer. These casings can additionally provide spices, smoke flavoring, and coloring agents among other components to the meat product.