Objective
Past years have made the radical change of the European paper industry evident to everyone. To accelerate growth, the industry has to beat the product commoditization and renew its product base with value-added products. Energy saving is not just part of the environmental agenda, it has become the most crucial topic for the competitiveness of European paper industry. In order to maintain the advantage, the development of technologically advanced manufacturing processes is a must, along with reduced specific energy consumption. Nanocellulose is the most promising nano-material for wide-variety applications in papermaking, today only prepared and applied in lab-scale. SUNPAP addresses the enhancement of European paper industry competitiveness by means of nanofibrillouscellulose (NFC) based processes. SUNPAP proposes a program based on an integrated and complementary approach for: a) scaling up efficient and innovative production routes to deliver nanofibrillous cellulose (NFC) as functional additive for industrial processes and innovative added value products; b) innovating the papermaking processes by the introduction of NFC additive; c) assessing impacts of nanotechnologies on consumer and occupational safety, public health in general and environment, and enhancing the related European foreground d) demonstrating the economic, environment and social sustainability of the innovative papermaking processes and products and therefore, e) successfully transferring the nanotechnology innovation to the paper value chain. Through demonstrations of the processes, the project will deliver new extremely light-weight and multifunctional products for a wide range of end-uses in the graphical and packaging paper industries. Economical and sustainability assessments in the project cover the whole value chain. However, the targeted advantages are not possible without dramatically changing the total value chain, encompassing it from the pulp to the end of life-cycle of the product
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating project
Coordinator
02044 VTT Espoo
Finland
Participants (25)
80797 Munchen
38610 Gieres
20123 Milano
3810-193 Aveiro
50059 Sovigliana Vinci
38031 Grenoble Cedex 1
651 88 Karlstad
45549 Sprockhövel
9020 Klagenfurt
28816 Stuhr
33720 Tampere
02150 Espoo
Participation ended
49086 Osnabrück
70210 Kuopio
00250 Helsinki
01620 Vantaa
SP4 7RT Wiltshire
73494 Rosenberg
791 80 Falun
00100 Helsinki
38780 Pont Eveque
49086 Osnabruck
Participation ended
02150 Espoo
01621 Vantaa
Participation ended
49086 Osnabrueck