Description du projet
Une technologie d’emballage alimentaire innovante pour une utilisation verte du son de blé
Le son de blé, un sous-produit de l’industrie meunière, a une valeur marchande relativement faible et reste principalement utilisé comme aliment pour animaux et, quand il n’est pas traité, est considéré comme un déchet. Le projet Branbox, financé par l’UE et dirigé par la société polonaise Biotrem, entend faire bon usage du son de blé en introduisant une technologie brevetée qui permettra de fabriquer des récipients pour aliments à emporter à partir de cette matière première. Ces récipients résistants à l’eau et jetables se biodégraderont dans un délai de 30 jours. Les deux problèmes clés qui se posent aujourd’hui pour ce type de contenant, à savoir la durabilité et l’impact environnemental, sont rarement résolus dans un même produit. C’est pourquoi les distributeurs, les prestataires de services alimentaires, les producteurs d’emballages, les usines, et tous les consommateurs, bénéficieront grandement de cette solution d’emballage alimentaire innovante.
Objectif
The plastic’s invasion on our planet have become our every day’s life. The amount of plastics is immense and starts to play a significant role on World’s ecosystem. Most of the plastics are the packages. The problem has been addressed by some biodegradable solutions such as bioplastic, paper or even bamboo containers. However, they still need at least half a year to degrade. From the other side, there is also immense amount of wheat bran which is a side product of the milling industry. The only use of that bran is feed for animals, otherwise it becomes waste in a few weeks. Hence, its efficient disposal is problematic, and - in result - bran has very low market value. Biotrem’s mission is to solve both the problems at the same time. We invented the proprietary technology which allows to use the wheat bran to make the containers. In this project we introduce water resistant and edible take-away food containers, which are biodegradable within 30 days - Branboxes. Currently, the major issue for the containers is the water resistance and biodegradability which is a great challenge to achieve at the same time in the single product. Bringing the product to the market at the small scale will not give the desired environmental results. Hence, we will introduce the scaled-up production (by licensing) and commercialization.
The market for such biodegradable packaging is worth at the moment €11B and is quickly growing at the CAGR of 16%, and is going to reach €20B within next decade.
Our end-users (each of us) will benefit from the plastic-free environment. Our customers – distributors, food chains and packaging producers, and mills will benefit from the new business opportunities. Our extensive distribution network will help us to fully exploit opportunities to commercialize the Branbox.
The prototype was already tested by big players on the market, and now we apply for SMEI funding to accelerate full scale commercialisation of the Branbox.
Champ scientifique
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanets
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationcompost
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood packaging
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processes
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
00-389 Warszawa
Pologne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.