Brasil Pack Trends 2020

BrasilPackTrends2020 141 In order to satisfy the consumer expectations, who seeks for safety, quality, convenience and well- being, years of financial investments and efforts of technologists and scientists were needed to the development of packages which consumer uses on a daily basis, such as aseptic plastic and carton packages, retortable pouches and plastic packages, resealing and easy-to-open systems, microwavable packages, high barrier plastic packages, modified atmosphere packages and many more. The success of those innovations was due to integrated development of product/process/packaging/ equipment/packaging material/distribution system. Concerning the future, multiple technological advances will be necessary to bring solutions to the package sector, what has become an important tool to the producer for obtaining competitive advantage Claire I. G. L. Sarantópoulos Tiago B. H. Dantas Chapter 6 QUALITY AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Recent and important innovations will be associated to active and intelligent packages – usually denominated smart packages – to new materials with less environmental impact and to the revolutionary nanoscience and nanotechnology. SARANTÓPOULOS, C. I. G. L.; DANTAS, T. B. H. Quality and new technologies. In: BRASIL pack trends 2020. Campinas: ITAL, 2012. ch. 6, p. 139-169.