The future of cardboard: smart packaging with self-healing, repairable 'skin'
Boxes could have organic, programmable fibers with ability to self-heal when damaged.
In the 150th year of the ubiquitous cardboard box, packaging experts at DS Smith outlined a futuristic blueprint for how the box might evolve over the next half century.
Based on trends driven by creative technology, the company’s innovators say they can imagine organic, programmable fibers with the ability to self-heal—like our skin—when damaged.