The kick-off meeting of the BIOn Top project took place in Valencia, Spain, on 18 and 19 June 2019, in the premises of the Technological Institute of Plastic (Asociación de Investigación de Materiales Plásticos y Conexas – AIMPLAS), a technology center with 30 years of experience in the plastics industry. Official beginning of the project is 1 June 2019 and is expected to end on 31 May 2023.
The meeting gathered all 20 partners from eight European countries, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Czechia, Estonia and Croatia. The objective of the meeting was to bring together all beneficiaries and provide a better insight into their project roles.
The objective of the project is to create recyclable and cost competitive packaging solutions that can be mechanically recycled, industrially/home composted or even suitable for anaerobic digestion, using sustainably sourced comonomers, additives and fillers to formulate novel PLA copolymers and compounds. Moreover, the barrier properties of the produced bio-packaging trays, films and derived packaging, will be enhanced by using removable protein-based coatings and a novel fatty acid grafting technology to decrease permeability and compete with fossil packaging.
BIO-mi is part of the work package 5 (WP5) ‘Pilot production and validation of bio-based mono and multilayer films and will participate in the processing of thin monolayer films and trays from biopolymers, as well as in the development and production of films from secondary raw materials.
Looking forward to a work ahead!
More information on the project available at the CORDIS website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/222682/factsheet/en
Bio-mi was presented in Valencia by our Ivona Miketa.
