Objective The European food packaging sector has a turnover of €6 Billion per year with the production of 200 Billion polymer trays, the vast majority of which are manufactured from virgin non-recyclable plastics such as polypropylene (PP). The plastics packaging thermoforming sector in Europe consists of over 1200 companies employing approx. 150,000 people. In excess of 70% of these jobs thermoforming companies are SMEs. This sector faces very significant competitiveness and environmental sustainability issues, which this project will address. The overall objective of the project is to make Europe the leader in low carbon footprint, high-recycled content and long shelf life polymer packaging.Specifically the ECOPET project will demonstrate the innovative recycled Polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) technology developed in the RPET-FC FP7 project, which will significantly reduce the weight and carbon footprint of packaging. In conjunction with this lightweight material a high barrier polyester will be applied enabling full recyclability of the packaging. In order to further extend shelf life the performance of a natural antioxidant/anti-microbial sub-micron thick coating will be evaluated. The developed technology will replace the use of virgin polypropylene (PP), which is the current market leader in food packaging. The specific project objectives are to demonstrate: Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energynatural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencesengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and filmsengineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood packaging Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2012-3 - Demonstration activity Call for proposal FP7-SME-2012 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator Holfeld Plastics Limited EU contribution € 470 400,00 Address Avoca River Park, Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arklow Ireland See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ted O'keeffe (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CURE TECHNOLOGY BV Netherlands EU contribution € 121 434,00 Address EERSTE BOKSLOOTWEG 17 DJ 7821 AT Emmen See on map Region Noord-Nederland Drenthe Zuidoost-Drenthe Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Marco Brons (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TMB Patterns Limited United Kingdom EU contribution € 259 315,00 Address Brue Avenue, Colley lane industrial Estate 24 TA6 5LT Somerset See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Lee Singleton (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CITROX BIOSCIENCES LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 96 920,00 Address UNIT 11 HARVARD INDUSTRIAL PE28 ONJ KIMBOLTON See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Howard Thomas (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Spiegelberg & Zinke GmbH Germany EU contribution € 106 550,00 Address Nietzschestr. 4 40822 Mettman See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Kai Spiegelberg (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
