The Future of Packaging

Imagine walking through a store aisle while various packages flash, display moving images, or talk to you. Or maybe you tear a coupon off of a label, hold it up to your mobile phone, and immediately discover you've won a promotional contest. A pharmaceutical label not only has an embedded calculator to determine exact dosage, but also monitors when medication is taken, and can even prompt the user when it's time to take it. What about printed lighting, flexible batteries, or edible electronics? It's not science fiction. Welcome to the world of printed electronics.

Intelligent printing has been a part of Topflight for decades, from the earliest days of membrane switches, through the advent of RFID, to the newest developments in energy and displays. Printed electronics can be 99% less expensive than traditional components, typically use one thousandth of the material, and can be fully recycled with regular trash. Those possibilities have sparked the interest of some of the largest companies in the world, including Procter & Gamble, Nestle, and Hallmark. A recent article in Printed Electronics World speculated that the demand for printed electronics will grow by a factor of 9 over the next ten years to almost $8 billion.

But all of this requires investments in complex equipment and dedicated research. Topflight is currently involved in several projects to push the limits of printed electronics, including an all-printed integrated circuit and near commercial high-volume production of printed batteries, displays, and lighting. The future is limitless, and Topflight is excited to be part of designing the impossible.

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