N-CHITOPACK

"Sustainable technologies for the production of biodegradable materials based on natural chitin-nanofibrils derived by waste of fish industry, to produce food grade packaging"

Coordinatore	MAVI SUD S.R.L    more  Organization address address: VIA DE L'INDUSTRIA 1 city: APRILIA LATINA postcode: 4011 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Pierfranceso Cognome: Morganti Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 92862626 Fax: +39 06 9281523
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	1˙190˙241 €
EC contributo	901˙096 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-11-01   -   2014-10-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	MAVI SUD S.R.L  Organization address address: VIA DE L'INDUSTRIA 1 city: APRILIA LATINA postcode: 4011 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Pierfranceso Cognome: Morganti Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 92862626 Fax: +39 06 9281523	IT (APRILIA LATINA)	coordinator	366˙613.20
2	MICROTEC SRL  Organization address address: VIA DELLA CROCE ROSSA 42 city: PADOVA postcode: 35129 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Elisabetta Cognome: Ugel Email: send email Telefono: +39 041 5190621 Fax: +39 041 5194765	IT (PADOVA)	participant	156˙575.75
3	AROMA SYSTEM SRL  Organization address address: VIA DEL BATTIRAME 6 city: BOLOGNA postcode: 40127 contact info Nome: Sergio Cognome: Vecchietti Email: send email Telefono: +39 051 6017933	IT (BOLOGNA)	participant	143˙268.95
4	BIOZOON GMBH  Organization address address: Fischkai, 1 city: BREMERHAVEN postcode: 27572 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Matthias Cognome: Kueck Email: send email Telefono: +49 471 9292850 Fax: +49 471 92928519	DE (BREMERHAVEN)	participant	115˙981.50
5	RODAX IMPEX SRL  Organization address address: DRUMUL TABEREI STREET 82 BL C16 SC E ET 8 AP 265 SECT 6 city: BUCURESTI postcode: 61403 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Laurentiu Cognome: Moldovan Email: send email Telefono: +40 214560759 Fax: +40 214560759	RO (BUCURESTI)	participant	44˙793.50
6	NOFIMA AS  Organization address address: MUNINBAKKEN 9-13 city: TROMSO postcode: 9291 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Morten Cognome: Sivertsvik Email: send email Telefono: 4790597998 Fax: 4751844650	NO (TROMSO)	participant	36˙376.00
7	CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER LA SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI  Organization address address: Via Giusti 9 city: FIRENZE postcode: 50121 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Andrea Cognome: Lazzeri Email: send email Telefono: 390502000000 Fax: 390502000000	IT (FIRENZE)	participant	21˙008.00
8	"USTAV MAKROMOLEKULARNI CHEMIE AV CR, v.v.i."  Organization address address: HEYROVSKEHO NAM. 2 city: PRAHA 6 postcode: 16206 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jan Cognome: Kouba Email: send email Telefono: +420 296 809 337 Fax: +420 296 809 410	CZ (PRAHA 6)	participant	16˙480.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The food sector (including beverage industry) accounts for approximately two thirds of global packaging and about 50% of these packages are made of plastics. Plastic food packaging materials currently in use are generally non-biodegradable causing ecological imbalance and aesthetic deterioration of nature. At the same time being a petro-chemical based product, plastics rely on a depleting and increasingly costly natural resource with relatively low LCA performance (high CO2 footprint). Food packaging – which is predominantly produced by SMEs - is crucial as physical and barrier protection keeping foodstuffs clean, fresh, and safe for consumers while increasing shelf life. Bio-based plastics offer a highly promising alternative and new biological materials are emerging as potential feedstock, such as chitin waste material from the fishing industry, mostly used in cosmetics applications due to their inherent bacteriostatic properties. Chitin waste exceeds 250 billion tons/year, and is considered hazardous due to its high perishability and polluting effect, both on land and sea. So re-use and up cycling to higher value applications would establish an important step forwards towards resource efficiency, providing a relevant innovation for the SME packaging industry that is under pressure to reduce cost and respond to environmental concerns. Recent research results at the University of Prague, leveraging on an SME owned world-wide patent (MAVI) for the production of chitin Nano fibrils, show interesting additional application opportunities of chitin as a bio-based polymer. The n-CHITOPACK project will leverage on the inherent superior properties of these chitin nano-fibrils for the development of new food packaging materials that are bacteriostatic, 100% bio-degradable and can be used by European packaging SMEs, contributing to increase their competitiveness in the market and to solving environmental challenges.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Researchers have created new biodegradable and bacteria-resistant packaging materials out of shellfish, specially designed for food packaging.