Innovation / Technology

This week’s episode of POW! Package of the Week looks at a reported first for its category. View the video to learn more about the award-winning paperboard bottle from Graphic Packaging International and how the innovative packaging improves the product sustainability, merchandisability, and consumer experience.

Print UV Productions has announced the agenda for Print UV 2022, the annual conference’s much-heralded 13th edition, which will reunite the industry March. 16-18 at the swanky Encore by Wynn Las Vegas.

COLOR22 ended on a high note this year, finishing the conference with two keynotes that helped to bring the ideas together.

The second day of the color management conference – COLOR22 – began with a look at how our emotions and senses are impacted by color.&n

In an increasingly complex and fragmented consumer culture marked by media overload...marketers (some, at least) are rediscovering the power of simplicity and clarity.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—IDTechEx has published “Brand Enhancement by Electronics in Packaging 2010-2020 The impending surge in e-packaging.” It concerns the market for electronic smart packaging devices, known as “e-packaging.” According to the report, global demand for these devices will grow rapidly from $0.09 billion in 2010 to $7.7 billion in 2020.

Finnish apparel company NP Collection has won the Golden Tag Award 2009 for effective logistics and profitable trade using RFID. UPM Raflatac is the winner of the Minitag Award for the same project.

Initial products based on organic electronics—thin, light-weight, flexible, and inexpensive to produce—are already on the market.

UPM Raflatac, Seeonic™ and Alliance, a RockTenn company, announced the deployment of a new generation of Alliance’s MAXRPM™, an inventory management system for retail promotional items that uses RFID technology to provide retailers and manufacturers with real-time business insights of retail promotion performance at the item level.

IDTechEx announced a new report “RFID Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2009-2019”, which addresses the global RFID situation. Areas of growth, undersupply and oversupply, and trends are given based on extensive new primary research.