Insignia Technologies, a developer of labelling technology, has won global recognition for its Freshtag product. The Scottish company won a gold award at the Dupont Awards for Packaging Innovation for the technology behind its Freshtag label.

David Kilshaw, CEO of Insignia Technologies, says, "The winners were seleced from nearly 150 companies spanning 24 countries by an independent panel, so it is an impressive achievement for Insignia."

The Freshtag is a time and temperature monitoring system that works from point of production through to restaurant/store, ensuring that food is consumed at optimum freshness. The label changes colour over a pre-set number of days at a specified temperature. The colour change speeds up if the temperature increases, allowing breaches of temperature to be highlighted.

"It is a great endorsement to the potential of the technology weve developed. Reducing unnecessary food waste is one of the greatest economic and environmental challenges the world faces and the Freshtag technology should prove a valuable tool in helping to address this," Kilshaw adds.

Bernard Rioux, global packaging leader at DuPont, comments, "The DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation demonstrate how creative, committed and agile the packaging industry is in addressing global issues and consumer needs."