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Optimised moulded pulp for renewable packaging solutions

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Objective

The aim of PULPACKTION project is to develop cellulose-based tailored-to-purpose packaging solutions for specific food and electronic packaging applications which needs medium and high barrier requirement’s and that nowadays are packing in polymer fossil based solutions. This innovation will take advantage of the flexibility in the wet-moulding production of wood pulp based materials. Different types of wood pulp will be combined to prepare slurries for wet-moulding applications. These slurries will be additivated with biopolymers and other bio-based compounds in order to tailor the final properties of the resulting wet-moulded materials. By tailoring the composition of the wet mouldable slurry, a wide range of final properties in the resulting dry material will be achieved. This flexible packaging manufacturing system will be combined with 100% bio-based coatings and films on the cellulose-based substrate. To fulfil the properties required for PULPACKTION’s specific packaging applications using a fully bio-based approach, additional barriers will be implemented onto the wet moulded substrate. For this purpose, new bio-based polymer blends will be optimized. These new blends, containing biopolymers such as thermoplastic starch (TPS), poly (lactic acid) (PLA), other bio-additives, and reinforcements such as microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), will be processed into multilayer films, composites and coatings. In this manner, not only coatings for improved barrier properties, but also 100% bio-based films for packages’ top lids will be produced. Therefore, a final 100% bio-biobased integral packaging solution with similar properties to existing fossil-based packaging solutions will be achieved.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.3.2.6. - Bio-based Industries Joint Technology Initiative (BBI-JTI)

Topic(s)

BBI.VC2.D2-2015 - Innovative cellulose-based composite packaging solutions

Call for proposal

H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-2-1

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Funding Scheme

BBI-IA-DEMO - Bio-based Industries Innovation action - Demonstration

Coordinator

ROTTNEROS PACKAGING AB

Address

Rottneros Ab
82623 Soderhamn

Sweden

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

EU Contribution

€ 1 902 303,66

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BORREGAARD AS

Norway

EU Contribution

€ 589 325,63

GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 584 500

ROTTNEROS AB

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 615 776,55

NOVAMONT SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 563 412,50

PURAC BIOCHEM BV

Netherlands

TECNARO GESELLSCHAFT ZUR INDUSTRIELLEN ANWENDUNG NACHWACHSENDER ROHSTOFFE MBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 595 023,63

MI-PLAST DOO ZA PROIZVODNJU, TRGOVINU I PRUZANJE USLUGA

Croatia

EU Contribution

€ 545 885,38

IRIS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 507 500

FUNBRICKS SL

Spain

INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DEL EMBALAJE, TRANSPORTE Y LOGISTICA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 764 125

RISE INNVENTIA AB

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 858 755

TOTAL CORBION PLA BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 163 734,38

KAO CHIMIGRAF SLU

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 613 032,32

Project information

PULPACKTION

Grant agreement ID: 720744

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 October 2016
End date

30 September 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.2.6.

Overall budget:

€ 11 166 442,88
EU contribution

€ 8 303 374,05

Coordinated by:

ROTTNEROS PACKAGING AB

Sweden

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PULPACKTION (Optimised moulded pulp for renewable packaging solutions)

Reporting period: 2016-10-01 to 2018-03-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The PULPACKTION project addresses several of issues that we are experiencing in our current society.

Packaging materials are used more increasingly in our current society, driven by an increased consumption of foods outside of the home, convenience for consumers, smaller households and as a result more packaging in relation to food. The majority of nowadays packaging are made from finite, fossile based sources, different types of plastics. Multilayer plastic packaging are difficult to recycle, and if they end up in the environment through unintended littering or leakage from landfills and logistics, cause major problems in the environment due to the their inherent property of being very difficult or have a very slow degradation. This causes accelerating problems in wildlife, plants, and eventually also the humans through the consumption of food. Todays conventional plastic packaging is to a large degree deposited in landfills, which is not a sustainable long term solution either. Thus, new packaging types that address these issues are in heavy demand.

The base of PULPACKTION innovation, lies in the use of renewable, bio-based, bio-degradable and carbon-neutral cellulose fibers, coupled with bio-based and bio-degradable bio-polymers for barrier properties.

Using raw materials from Europe, cellulose and starches from both agri- and forest culture, we are also reducing our dependence on imported crude oil, and contributing positively to a development of local, sustainable economies inside Europe.

The project benefits Europes ambitions to develop sustainable and innovative technologies and economies in a green-tech sector where for instance China is strongly competing in taking the lead in this sector.

The overall objective of PULPACKTION project is to demonstrate in industrial scale the viability of a all bio-based and bio-degradable packaging solution which also reduces the carbon footprint compared to a conventional plastic packaging by 50%.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Project Team Meeting team building activity 22nd March

Project Team Meeting 22nd March

Köttex, one of the first Rottneros Packaging clients (still with conventional PET barrier film)

RISE Open day Stockholm 23rd May

Project information

PULPACKTION

Grant agreement ID: 720744

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 October 2016
End date

30 September 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.2.6.

Overall budget:

€ 11 166 442,88
EU contribution

€ 8 303 374,05

Coordinated by:

ROTTNEROS PACKAGING AB

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project’s Website

The project website will provide worldwide dissemination of the project goals and results. It will be open to general public offering information on the project, the partners which form the consortium, results of the project’s activities, etc. It will be updated regularly to provide up to date news about the project and the latest public deliverables.

Documents, reports (1)

Brochure

A brochure will be prepared for the dissemination of the project’s objectives. The brochure will contain the motivation of the project, its objectives and the technologic challenges involving the proposed innovation. It will also present the partners that constitute the consortium.

Publications

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Project information

PULPACKTION

Grant agreement ID: 720744

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 October 2016
End date

30 September 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.2.6.

Overall budget:

€ 11 166 442,88
EU contribution

€ 8 303 374,05

Coordinated by:

ROTTNEROS PACKAGING AB

Project information

PULPACKTION

Grant agreement ID: 720744

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 October 2016
End date

30 September 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.2.6.

Overall budget:

€ 11 166 442,88
EU contribution

€ 8 303 374,05

Coordinated by:

ROTTNEROS PACKAGING AB

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