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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.

By Julie Larson Bricher

November 6, 2024

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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 …

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Tech Trends Research Methodology

Invitations to participate in Food Technology’s 2024 Technology Trends Survey were distributed online to Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) industry members working in food, beverage, and ingredient manufacturing and distribution, consulting, and technology development. Responses were collected and analyzed to determine trend indicators based on fully completed surveys submitted by 194 food industry professionals from multinational, national, and regional enterprises. The inaugural benchmark survey was conducted in June and July 2024 and participation was voluntary and anonymous.

Note: Questions were designed with a “check all that apply” format in which respondents were instructed to select every answer that pertains to them, resulting in percentages adding up to more than 100% during data analysis.