About
USABLE PACKAGING will develop high performance plastic packaging through a sustainable and fully circular value chain, where the biomass raw material sourcing derives from food processing side streams, to obtain, via a low footprint biochemical processing, bio-based biodegradable building block materials that will enable the realisation of:
- complex packaging structures, including laminates and multilayer films, to match key functional requirements of commercial petrochemical plastics, such as gas/ liquid barrier properties, mechanical resistance, cold temperature resistance, hot tack, among others
- a full set of packaging items from rigid to semi rigid and flexible by tuning the functionalisation of base resins through bio-synthesis and the compound processing.
The USABLE PACKAGING concept is designed to retrofit the existing state-of-the-art packaging processing technology by controlling the chemical and physical properties of the base building blocks materials. Unlike its petrochemical peers, USABLE PACKAGING offers a sustainable end-of-life solution, since, on one hand, materials are biodegradable with no harm to the environment, and on the other hand they have potential to deliver additional economic value through:
- organic recycling for the production of biogas, with the same consolidated disposal route as bio-waste, or
- biotech recycling, to be used again as feedstock for the production of the same base resins for USABLE Packaging, basically closing again and again the same value chain to re-obtain virgin materials.
Duration
1 June 2019 - 31 May 2022
DICAM Project Responsible
Annamaria Celli
Coordinator
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain
Participants
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN, Austria
- BIO BASE EUROPE PILOT PLANT VZW, Belgium
- FUNDACION GAIKER, Spain
- ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA, Italy
- UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA, Italy
- UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER, France
- NUOVA OMPI SRL, Italy
- INNOVEN SRL, Italy
- BIOINICIA SL, Spain
- INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, France
- INNOEXC GMBH, Switzerland
- BARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI SPA, Italy
- BIO-BASED AND BIODEGRADABLE INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (BBIA) LTD, United Kingdom
- GEOPONIKO PANEPISTIMION ATHINON, Greece
- SONAE MC - SERVICOS PARTILHADOS, SA, Portugal
- UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain
- SABIO S.R.L., Italy
- PUBLI EMBAL, France
- NOVA ID FCT - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INOVACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DA FCT, Portugal
- EURAMATERIALS, France
- MATIKEM, France
- BIO-MI DRUSTVO S OGRANICENOM ODGOVORNOSCU ZA PROIZVODNJU, ISTRAZIVANJEI RAZVOJ, Croatia
- OROGEL SOCIETA COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA, Italy
- COOPERATIVE AGRICOLE VITI-FRUTTICOLTORI ITALIANI RIUNITI ORGANIZZATI, Italy
- POZNANSKA HODOWLA ROSLIN SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA, Poland
- KORUMA KLOR ALKALI SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI, Turkey
EU contribution
Euro 4 813 045
Website
https://www.usable-packaging.eu/