TraceGains and Esko Alliance Helps Brands Reduce Packaging Risk and Accelerate Time to Market

New Packaging Specification Management Solution Connects Ingredients, Packaging, and Artwork for End-to-End Visibility

Published on Feb. 15, 2026

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TraceGains, a leading provider of compliance, quality, and innovation solutions for the food and beverage industry, has announced the launch of TraceGains Packaging Specification Management, featuring native integration with Esko's WebCenter Go packaging artwork management solution. The two Veralto portfolio companies are creating an integrated 'source-to-shelf' digital ecosystem for the food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods industries by unifying ingredient specifications, packaging data, product formulas, finished goods, and artwork approvals into a single, connected system.

Why it matters

As packaging complexity increases, brands face growing risk from fragmented systems and manual workflows, exacerbating the need for a fully integrated new product development workflow from source to shelf. This new solution aims to mitigate the risk of packaging errors, which remain one of the most common and costly sources of risk for consumer packaged goods brands.

The details

TraceGains Packaging Specification Management extends the company's Specification Management platform to packaging and artwork, creating a single source of truth to reduce errors, improve compliance, and accelerate global product launches. The solution provides automated change control to ensure packaging and artwork reviews are triggered whenever upstream product data changes, preventing mismatches before they reach production. It also offers a single, auditable system of record for product and packaging specifications, with defined relationships and packaging assemblies to support complex finished good relationships. The deep integration with Esko WebCenter Go enables digital artwork approval workflows, delivering full visibility and audit readiness across teams and suppliers.

  • In the first quarter of 2025, nearly half (21 of 45) US food and beverage recalls were caused by undeclared allergens or other packaging and labelling errors.

The players

TraceGains

The leading provider of compliance, quality, and innovation solutions for the food and beverage industry.

Esko

A Veralto portfolio company that provides the WebCenter Go packaging artwork management solution.

Gary Iles

The Chief Marketing Officer of Esko and TraceGains.

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What they’re saying

“Packaging errors remain one of the most common and costly sources of risk for CPG brands. By unifying ingredients, packaging, and artwork in one connected ecosystem, we're mitigating the risk of miscommunication between teams and errors that could lead to costly brand recalls, reputational damage or worse.”

— Gary Iles, CMO, Esko & TraceGains

“Together, Esko and TraceGains are redefining what's possible when it comes to source to shelf by connecting packaging excellence with supply chain intelligence. Now, brands have access to unprecedented clarity and control across their packaging and compliance workflows.”

— Gary Iles, CMO, Esko & TraceGains

The takeaway

This new packaging specification management solution from TraceGains and Esko aims to help consumer packaged goods brands reduce the risk of costly packaging errors and accelerate their time to market by unifying ingredients, packaging, and artwork data into a single, connected ecosystem.