Objective
Functional drinks are an important aspect of a modern and healthy lifestyle. These drinks include non-traditional ingredients
such as herbs, minerals, vitamins, electrolytes, or amino acids, and offer definite health related benefits that go beyond
general daily nutritional intake. In the last years, functional drinks are becoming more and more popular, showing constantly
high growth rates in both, the European as well as the global market.
However, while producers and advertisers claim the health benefits of functional drinks, independent tests confirm that
functional ingredients lose their effect when they are dissolved in water for 24 hours. This degradation effect is even more
intensified when exposed to UV light, oxygen or heat. Current pre-mixed functional drinks are therefore not capable of
providing the users with the promised health and nutrition effects. In order to overcome this problem it is necessary to keep
the functional ingredients separated in a dry and airtight sealed dispensing cap and infuse them into the water just before
consummation.
Despite the clear business opportunity, first competitive attempts towards the development of such a dispensing cap system
have failed due to technical problems, high material and manufacturing costs, and lack of market/user knowledge. HÄHL, on
the other hand, has developed and successfully tested the first real dispensing cap solution that with overcome all identified
problems and generate a strong impact on the market for functional drinks. The overall objective of this project is the market
introduction of an industrial one-step manufacturing process for the entire production, filling, and packaging of INCAPs in a
fast and efficient way. At the end of the project, an output capacity of 10 million INCAPs per year will be realised. Building on
the experience of four already signed pilot customer applications that will be implemented during the project, the market
uptake of INCAP will be significantly facilitated.
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- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry amines
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.1.2. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Nanotechnologies
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H2020-EU.2.1.5. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced manufacturing and processing
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H2020-EU.2.1.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced materials
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H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017
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Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
72144 DUSSLINGEN
Germany
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.