USABLE PACKAGING adopts state of the art technologies to develop high performance bioplastics, which are essential to respond to the end-use requirements of consumer packaging.
The compounding of base resins enables the extension of performance range, whilst electro spinning and bio-lamination technologies make fully bio-based and biodegradable multi-layer film accessible.roduct my business skyrocketed! I made back the purchase price in just 48 hours! I couldn't have asked for more than this."
USABLE PACKAGING aims to fine-tune bioplastics functionality by reactive and non-reactive extrusion processing. This is very important to ensure the high performance required for consumer end use, within the mono material packaging concept.
USABLE PACKAGING includes processing technologies for the conversion of biomass into bioplastics. Control over the polymer production step makes it possible to design the product in a way that boosts performance. Additionally, the choice of biomass side streams from food industry is crucial to deliver the circular value chain.
BREAD PASTA
CHEMICALS
FROZEN VEGETABLES & FISH
WINE
AGRICS
PHARMA
PACKAGING
The final newsletter from USABLE PACKAGING - Issue 3 Autumn 2023 - is now out, providing you with the latest updates on the project’s progresses and successes, notably significant advances in producing PHA from food processing by-products and the manufacture of bio-based frozen bags.
The USABLE PACKAGING project has proven the concept that by -products from food production can be transformed into compostable packaging and other products. The results of the project, delivered over three years and led by Spain’s Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), will be presented to stakeholders and the public during the Ecomondo Expo in Rimini, Italy, in November. More info on the meeting and how to attend.
UK food waste authority WRAP has launched a report which "has challenged accepted thinking that packaging helps to preserve fresh produce. In fact, it shows that selling loose has huge potential to reduce food waste in our homes."
Prof. Jose Maria Lagaron
María Pardo-Figuerez, Ph.D.
Novel Packaging Materials and Nanotechnology Group, IATA-CSIC
