How packaging will change? Packaging is very ubiquitous, it touches almost every person on the planet. It affects things that human beings need to survive, including food, health care, personal care, and all of that is packaged. Today, none of that has a lot of intelligence, but there are real concerns with a lot of those products. There’s a concern of spoilage, there are concerns of authenticity, there are concerns of origin and where is this coming from. In this article, we are going to talk about the future development of the packaging industry.

A lot of things that the gift box packaging can communicate with different types of intelligence, and sensing those packages can be much more dynamic. In help in two ways, one way is not to throw this out, even though it’s passed this expert eight. On the other side, the yogurt container that you just bought that is supposed to last two weeks, actually hit a temperature that caused it to spoil, and don’t consume it. Those are the types of examples that we suspect we’ll see.

When you decide to buy a bottle of alcohol, you buy it, and then you don’t know what to do. Instant think about it, if the packaging on it, is able to tell you one thing how to make a cocktail. When you actually scan it, it tells you, you really can make a cocktail that suits you. Because this is the type of cocktail you like and make. You are the two of the ingredients you need to buy, and you’re going to have it. It’s actually becoming a personalized assistant to you.

Was already being tested now are these diggers of print. How can your name be on a beverage bottle or when you buy the jar of jam and have your name on it or some kind of customized promotion. That kind of personalization will be important to drive the sales of goods.

Where you can envision, the packaging changing, too. As a consumer, has your own personalized container that can be reused over and over. Like your instacart shopper picks up from your house, fills it with strawberries, and brings it back to your house. We may see more micro supply chains set up in certain communities that have a higher demand of consumer personalization and requirements for packaging to be sustainable and personalized to them and reusable.

A great example people talk about is vegetable-based packaging. So think about it this way, you go buy a burger, you throw away the box. What happens if you can eat the box? What happens if you can heat up the box and put it into your soup? What if it’s algae-based? What if it’s protein-based, and then you can reuse it, but not reuse it as a package of it, but in a different application you can end up eating it or your dog can end up eating it. However, those are the innovations you’re most likely going to see in the next 5, 10, or 15 years.

Must Do’s For Packaging Companies

We’re seeing a lot of packaging companies that are waiting for their customers to come and ask for something different. The challenge with that is often when these customers want to ask for something different, they’re going to a new converter. There’s a real opportunity for packaging converters to step ahead and understand how these trends are affecting consumers. Therefore, their customers come in with solutions.

Going forward it needs to be much more close to a partnership with brand owners, with retailers, with upstream recyclers even downstream new types of customers to think through how is this packaging going to work in the value chain? How to develop this to really solve a pain point? Going forward is more of relocation of assets closer to customers or close by or even in-house for happening a lot.

The point on innovation is not going to be a CH T’s from Cal Tech and put them in Silicon Valley. It’s about finding what is the biggest customer pain point that they are not able to solve to how do you solve it. But solved with an ecosystem, solving to the partner and then get your organization to act, go do it. When you fail fast, and it’s about getting your organization to be agile to really be customer back. If you fail that’s okay, learn from it and move fast