Nano and Food Packaging Technologies Converge

Nanotechnology—actually nanotechnologies—for packaging will grow from a $ 66-million business in 2003 to $360 million by 2008, an astonishing 40% annual increase, if Graham Moore and his colleagues at the Packaging Industries Research Association (PIRA, www.piranet.com) are anywhere near target in their prognostications.

Whether this will occur depends on a host of factors converging successfully in the foreseeable future. Those who have been tracking the science or performing research for food t…