Esko has launched six new advanced solutions designed to drive efficiency, sustainability and profitability for converters and shorten time to market for consumer-packaged goods brands at Esko World. This technology-focused event for packaging professionals is renowned for providing visitors with a wide range of interactive learning opportunities, sharing best practices and educational workshops.
Esko President Joël Depernet used the opening keynote presentation to officially unveil the raft of innovations that embrace cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver improved sustainability, third party integration, central data storage and greater efficiency in process and task management. Kicking off this year’s packaging technology event in front of more than 500 packaging and labels converters, brand representatives and packaging experts at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel in St Louis, Missouri, Joël detailed how the six new innovations address today’s fast-changing business environment and evolving regulations.
“In the face of mounting challenges for brands and their label and packaging partners, these latest introductions to the Esko ecosystem underline how we remain true to our aim of continuous improvement through innovation, developing technology solutions that address the growing business need to better connect people, processes and technologies,” he said. “As a long-term partner to our customers, we are committed to innovating to ensure our solutions empower and enable anyone using them in the packaging value chain to benefit from improved operational efficiency, quality and to more easily achieve sustainability objectives.”
Esko CMO Jan De Roeck explained how the new innovations deliver true value creation that goes significantly beyond the sum of the individual solutions. “Delivering significant improvements in everything from quality control to compliance management, colour control to data-driven decision making, we have specifically developed these latest technical innovations to address the pain points that have a critical impact on today’s packaging supply chain, while preparing for what lays ahead,” he said.
The six innovations introduced at Esko World are:
• Esko Comply – a new, AI-powered artwork review and compliance checking tool that brings further quality assurance to the prepress process, available now to the pre-release community ahead of its wide release in November 2025
• Esko WebCenter Go – a complete packaging management solution for small-and-medium-sized brand owners, available from September 2025
• Esko WebCenter Pack – delivering complete packaging management specifically for converters, available immediately following its global launch at Esko World
• Esko Print Clone – harnessing the power of AI in a new cloud-based colour matching solution that effectively reverse engineers a colour profile, minimising trial and error and speeding up colour matching, available worldwide following its launch at Esko World
• Esko Cape Prime – a new packaging-driven sustainability solution that helps converters successfully reach their own sustainability targets, available to the pre-release community
• Esko CDI Quartz – now available worldwide, a top-of-the-line addition to the market-leading family of Esko CDI and XPS plate imaging and exposing solutions. The Esko CDI Quartz delivers the most accurate and best quality plates that reduce ink usage to deliver the absolute best quality final print.
“Driven by AI and the Esko S2 platform, this raft of innovations underlines the value of true end-to-end integration,” said Jan. “Each of these new Esko solutions delivers tangible benefits for global brands and their packaging converters and serves to further automate, connect and accelerate the process of developing and bringing to market a packaged product.”
He explained that integration was key to the ongoing success of the Esko ecosystem, underlining the power of collaborative relationships with a number of key partners in attendance at Esko World. “From the world of connected packaging we are proud to work with Bl.ink, Zappar and Scantrust; with CERM, DynamicsPrint, eProductivity and PrintVis in the MIS field; and with X-Rite Pantone, The Grey Elephant and Schlafender Hase in colour and quality assurance. From the world of regulation and sustainability, we work closely with our partners at TraceGains, Recyda, Regask, CarbonQuota and FoodChain ID; and in printing and finishing with our friends at HP, Canon, Kongsberg PCS and AllenField.”
Gary Iles, SVP of Marketing at TraceGains, said: “Now as part of the Veralto family, we’re excited to introduce the first Esko-TraceGains integration at Esko World. Our solution creates value by keeping product formulation and labelling teams in sync with packaging design and compliance teams, delivering an industry first Source-to-Shelf seamlessness that speeds time to market.”