COBAPACK

"Development of a new recyclable long life co-injected high barrier packaging for food applications, with broad design possibilities and reduced manufacturing costs"

Coordinatore	AIMPLAS - ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE MATERIALES PLASTICOS Y CONEXAS    more  Organization address address: CALLE GUSTAVE EIFFEL 4 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE PATERNA city: PATERNA VALENCIA postcode: 46980 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Raquel Cognome: Giner Borrull Email: send email Telefono: 34961366040 Fax: 34961366041
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Sito del progetto	http://www.cobapack.eu
Totale costo	1˙327˙873 €
EC contributo	972˙730 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2008-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-10-01   -   2011-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	AIMPLAS - ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE MATERIALES PLASTICOS Y CONEXAS  Organization address address: CALLE GUSTAVE EIFFEL 4 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE PATERNA city: PATERNA VALENCIA postcode: 46980 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Raquel Cognome: Giner Borrull Email: send email Telefono: 34961366040 Fax: 34961366041	ES (PATERNA VALENCIA)	coordinator	26˙293.80
2	PEPI PLAST PROIZVODNJA STORITVE TRGOVINA DOO  Organization address address: CESTA GORISKE FRONTE 46 city: SEMPETER PRI GORICI postcode: 5290 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Matej Cognome: Erzar Email: send email Telefono: +386 5 3935120 Fax: +386 5 3935121	SI (SEMPETER PRI GORICI)	participant	196˙182.59
3	SIVEL Limited  Organization address address: ZAHARY STOYANOV STREET 77 city: DOBRICH postcode: 9300 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Simeon Cognome: Simeonov Email: send email Telefono: 359888000000 Fax: 35958604832	BG (DOBRICH)	participant	181˙949.60
4	"High Technology Masterbatches, S.L."	ES	participant	168˙525.62
5	CRIIMPLA S.L  Organization address address: Calle Concepcion Arenal - Pol. Ind. La Garrofera city: ALAQUAS - VALENCIA postcode: 46970 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Rosa Cognome: Bayarri Aigües Email: send email Telefono: 34961501939 Fax: 34961501938	ES (ALAQUAS - VALENCIA)	participant	154˙549.19
6	DEM SPA  Organization address address: VIA SAN ROCCO 8 A city: TELGATE BG postcode: 24060 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Enrico Cognome: Scarabelli Email: send email Telefono: 390354000000 Fax: 39035831478	IT (TELGATE BG)	participant	102˙562.50
7	H.J. HEINZ COMPANY LIMITED  Organization address address: "South Building, Hayes Park" city: HAYES postcode: UB4 8AL contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Steve Cognome: Mc Cormick Email: send email Telefono: 441943000000 Fax: 441943000000	UK (HAYES)	participant	62˙879.76
8	TERMOPLASTI PLAMA d.o.o.  Organization address address: Hrusica 104 city: Podgrad postcode: 6244 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Josip Cognome: Mauric Email: send email Telefono: 3865749100 Fax: 38657149303	SI (Podgrad)	participant	61˙546.38
9	D'APPOLONIA SPA  Organization address address: Via San Nazaro 19 city: GENOVA postcode: 16145 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Laura Cognome: Bertolucci Email: send email Telefono: 390104000000 Fax: 390104000000	IT (GENOVA)	participant	9˙878.04
10	AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS  Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO 117 city: MADRID postcode: 28006 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Carlos Manuel Cognome: Abad Ruiz Email: send email Telefono: 34915668852 Fax: 34915668913	ES (MADRID)	participant	8˙362.93

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Plastics used in packaging are seen everywhere in developed societies. Demand of long life rigid packing with high barrier properties grows up quickly (around 200.000 Tn are produced annually in Europe). Barrier packages are employed to preserve foodstuffs from environmental agents, so to control the package permeability to gases (O2,N2,CO2) is very important. Furthermore, mechanical and food thermal treatment resistance (pasteurization and retort processes) and food contact grade are also relevant requirements. Due to the nature of plastic materials, only one plastic can not achieve all the demanded requisites, so these packages are made of combining no less than three materials in five layers; a water barrier polymer (outer layers) cheap and with good mechanical properties (PP,HIPS), an oxygen barrier polymer with high cost (EVOH,PVDC,PA) and an adhesive to join both. They are manufactured by a two-step process: Coextrusion to produce a cast multilayer sheet and Thermoforming to process the sheet into shapes. This production technology has the following problems: Co-extrusion: a) Synthetic polymers (mainly EVOH) used as inner layer are very expensive and chemically incompatible with the other layers preventing post-used packages recycling. b) Scrap production reaches at least 10%. Thermoforming: a) High scrap production (up to 40%) due to trims, especially in oval and round forms, and processing problems b) Design limitations: neither complex forms nor uniform thickness, and no high depth of draw ratio are allowed. In order to solve the above problems COBAPACK approach will consist on: a)Using destructurized starch from rich protein plants(a by-product with low cost soluble in water), to replace the synthetic high barrier materials allowing the separation of the different multilayer materials thus recycling 100% the final package b)Using co-injection process, one-step process with minimum scrap losses, savings in energy comsumption and broad design flexibility'