Smart Packaging Coming Now?

The smart packaging is to add more relevant information to the existing packaging technology, and it can be read by the current advanced smartphone, the Internet, and the Internet of Things, so that the packaging has a larger information capacity.

Industry insiders said that for consumers, more transparent product information and greater choice have been added; for producers, smart packaging is undoubtedly a high-capacity platform to meet consumers directly. At the same time, smart packaging will also achieve a qualitative breakthrough in anti-counterfeiting technology.

Relevant data show that in 2016, only in China, the smart packaging market size reached 136.653 billion RMB (around USD93 Billion), and in 2017 it reached 148.809 billion RMB (around USD102 Billion), an increase of 8.90% year-on-year. At present, the larger scale of the smart packaging market segment is the RFID market, which has reached 75.24 billion RMB.

In the future, with the advancement of related technologies such as materials science, modern control technology, computer technology and artificial intelligence, and the acceleration of marketization process, the increase in national income and the entry of global branded goods, a considerable retail and consumer market will Formed globally and growing rapidly.

Some people also said that with the advent of the Internet of Things era and the upgrade of social consumption, upgrading from traditional packaging to smart packaging in some areas has become inevitable. The packaging industry will focus on the development of six major projects, including green packaging, smart packaging, and safe packaging. It will promote the innovative development and green development of the packaging industry, actively create an upgraded version of packaging, and realize the substantial transformation of the industry from large to strong.