Smart packaging opens up new opportunities for enhancing tracking, safety and healthiness as well as product attractiveness, flexibility and usability in a wide variety of commercial, retail and medical products. Although it has always existed in some form or another, a broad range of enabling technologies is rapidly maturing that will add diversity and functionality to smart packaging applications.
This report focuses on quantifying the size of the smart packaging industry and where the opportunities are to be found. It does pioneer work in defining categories for the various categories of packaging products that are likely to emerge over the next decade and projects the revenues that will emerge from all end user segments, as well as analyzing the key business strategies of firms pursuing smart packaging opportunities. The report will be of interest to firms selling components for smart packaging systems as well as the packaging industry itself. It will also be essential reading for firms in the retail, medical technology, materials and other sectors, as well as investors seeking to understand where the profitable opportunities in smart packaging are to be found
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
- Summary of smart packaging opportunities
- Key firms operating in the smart packaging market
- Summary of market projections
Chapter One: Introduction
- Background to this report
- Current state of the packaging industry
- Definition of smart packaging
- Current state of smart packaging
- Objective and scope of report
- Methodology of report
- Plan of Report
Chapter Two: Enabling Technologies for Smart Packaging
- Impact of printed, plastic and flexible electronics
- Impact of developments in the life sciences
- Impact of nanotechnology
- Impact of smart materials
- Enabling technologies
- EAS
- RFIDs
- Photovoltaics
- Batteries
- Sensors and Diagnostics
- Displays and E-Paper
- Timers
- Security technology
- Sound
- Self-heating and self-cooling
- Smart spraying and dispensing
- Connection with other IT systems
- Inventory and tracking systems
- Smart shelves
- Smart refrigerators
- Networks
- Technology barriers to implementation
Chapter Three: The Smart Packaging Market
- The value proposition of smart packaging
- Changing consumer demand patterns
- Demographics
- Security
- Health
- Novelty
- Price
- Other factors
- Market distinguishing features for manufacturers
- The retail perspective
- Smart packaging types and features
- Advertising systems
- Pricing systems
- Freshness systems
- Tracking systems
- Security systems
- Novelty systems
- Heating and cooling systems
- Dispensing systems
- Other systems
- Likely combinations of features
- Smart packaging and branding
- Legislative issues
- Environmental issues
- International variations
Chapter Four: Eight-Year Forecast and Market Analysis
- Market forecasts by smart packaging type
- Advertising systems
- Pricing systems
- Freshness systems
- Tracking systems
- Security systems
- Novelty systems
- Heating and cooling systems
- Dispensing systems
- Other systems
- Market forecasts by end user sector
- Food and beverage
- Medical and pharmaceutical
- Cosmetics
- Toys
- Industrial
- Military
- Other
- Market breakout by major geographic region
