Intelligent packaging
Smart and intelligent packaging
Presently, packs are used to majority of products being sold on the market. Packaging market is being developed rapidly, which is connected either with the increase of markets of products that require packaging as well as creating new, cheaper and better technologies ensuring safety of the product and proper function of its packaging. New technologies have enabled the development of active and intelligent packaging. Such packs, apart from having the basic functions of traditional ones i.e. protection of the product from outer factors together with encouraging the customer to buy them, are to cooperate with the packed product and inform a customer of the products’ state.
The task of intelligent packaging (indicators) is to inform the potential purchaser of the quality condition of the packed product through colored indication. Indicator packs are used for products sensitive to outer factors change that act on the products mainly; temperature, humidity etc. Therefore, intelligent packagings have found a vast application in the branch of groceries and pharmaceuticals. The most important indicators are: indicators of time , temperature, humidity and oxygen.
TTI market data
The key data about intelligent packaging market:
- TTI indicators have the biggest share of intelligent packaging market (over 90% of the market in 2006)
- The turnover from TTI market in 2007, only for groceries, was estimated to around 101 mln USD
- The growth of the intelligent packaging market is estimated to 30% per year
- USA, Western Europe and Japan are the leading TTI markets
