Product Development

IPD is a product development company that specializes in research and development projects with an emphasis on product solutions for the Food Safety, Pharmaceutical, Security, Forensic and Medical industries. Across a wide variety of project types, IPD has more than 30 issued patents, published applications and provisional patents.

IPD has experience in developing customized products that enable real-time monitoring of time, temperature and humidity levels across a variety of production cycles. Advanced ink and label technologies can react to situation specific requirements with a visual-only indication of desired or undesired set levels or to be printed to obscure and deactivate a bar-code.

Featured advances in technology include the CHIPS (Clean Hands Infection Prevention System) which was designed to guard against the spread of infection in hospitals, restaurants, schools and other facilities. CHIPS enables health care facilities and other public places to monitor 100 percent of hand hygiene opportunities and to evaluate the thoroughness of hand cleansing of staff and visitors.

IPD is also an innovator in the field of security and fraud prevention having developed best practice loss prevention products for banks, retail operations, law enforcement agencies, government agencies and businesses of all sizes.

In addition, IPD has applied its technology to forensics analysis. Chemistries and inks for forensics products involve chromogenic (color-producing), fluorogenic (fluorescence-producing) and thermogenic (produced by heat) chemical reactions of various sorts.