Flexibility is the Key

Somewhat further out in time, Reardon believes that intelligent packaging technologies will impact the market in areas such as track-and-trace capability to improve distribution and meet legislation for product security, monitoring, and quality. He sees nanotechnologies being used to “provide increased barrier or active packaging technologies (anti-microbial, scavenging, etc.), which will be an important route for providing flexible packaging with the increasing complexity to meet the changing demands for fresher produce and enhanced shelf life.”