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Packaging World: You’ve gone from producing prototypes to now producing both prototypes and modest commercial runs. How has that gone? Any surprises? Monty Patterson: Overall, it’s gone well. The pandemic set us back a bit, especially when some customers furloughed or reassigned employees who were our main contacts. Other customers found themselves so focused on just trying to maintain the status quo that they more or less postponed exploring new technologies for printing and finishing their packaging materials. Not to mention that face-to-face meetings with customers became almost impos...

Consumer product packaging has long been scrutinized for structural and aesthetic performance. Now, though, a more important characteristic is at the fore – intelligence. Packaging can be smarter and ‘digitally connected’ when combined with distributed computer systems and the web. This change will revolutionize productivity and quality while delivering new capability in a variety of product packaging applications. This capability has led to the fourth Industrial Revolution for manufacturing, or Industry 4.0, where data is dominant, and the Internet of Things (IoT) provides greater conn...