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Outlook 2025: Technology Trends

The second in a series of three forecast articles for the year ahead tracks what food and beverage technologies will be trending in 2025 and beyond.
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Julie Larson Bricher Julie Larson Bricher

Food Technology Magazine

Technology—“the great growling engine of change” as American futurist Alvin Toffler aptly described it—continues to trend strongly toward digitization across manufacturing sectors, especially in the consumer packaged goods category. In the food and beverage industry, the outlook for advanced technology applications might be described, à la Toffler, as a loud and rumbling growl. Tech innovation is steadily chugging along as digital solutions improve productivity gains in all areas of global food systems and businesses, including product development.

In addition to researching and monitoring food and beverage technology trends over the past year, Food Technology surveyed IFT member food, beverage, and …

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