Defining the future of packaging operations

摘要

What trends, from both inside packaging operations and from outside macroeconomic factors, are likely to impact packaging over the next eight years? To find out, the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute assembled several focus groups of consumer goods companies' packaging personnel during fall's PACK EXPO Las Vegas. The 10 trends they gleaned from these sessions are not surprising and, together, they paint a fairly clear picture of the future of packaging, all of which will become part of a larger forecast, Vision 2015. Here's what a panel of your peers is predicting: The proliferation of new products/ brands/packaging, stemming from consumer demand, will continue throughout the foreseeable future.