Diverse ongoing threats, new regulatory requirements for life critical products and technical evolution will fuel market growth for anti-counterfeiting packaging technologies across the next five years, according to exclusive new data from Smithers Pira.

Its new report, "The Future of Ant-counterfeiting, Brand Protection and Security Packaging to 2022," Smithers’ forecasts this global market will grow during the period 2017–2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.3%, to reach $3.6 billion in 2022.