FLHEA
FLAX AND HEMP ADVANCED FIBER BASED COMPOSITES
| Coordinatore | "INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DEL EMBALAJE, TRANSPORTE Y LOGISTICA"
Organization address
city: Paterna contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Spain [ES] |
| Totale costo | 1˙275˙500 € |
| EC contributo | 983˙725 € |
| Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
| Code Call | FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage |
| Funding Scheme | CP-TP |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-09-01 - 2015-08-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
"INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DEL EMBALAJE, TRANSPORTE Y LOGISTICA"
Organization address
city: Paterna contact info |
ES (Paterna) | coordinator | 204˙745.00 |
| 2 |
OrganoClick AB
Organization address
address: RITARSLINGAN 20 contact info |
SE (TABY) | participant | 234˙440.00 |
| 3 |
RODENBURG BIOPOLYMERS BV
Organization address
address: DENARIUSSTRAAT 19 contact info |
NL (OOSTERHOUT) | participant | 143˙200.00 |
| 4 |
MELODEA LTD
Organization address
address: THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE OF THE contact info |
IL (REHOVOT) | participant | 130˙800.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
Organization address
address: BARRIO SARRIENA S N contact info |
ES (LEIOA) | participant | 119˙420.00 |
| 6 |
Arctic Fiber Company Ltd
Organization address
address: MERILINNUNTIE 1 contact info |
FI (Uusikaupunki) | participant | 100˙800.00 |
| 7 |
TERMOFORMAS DE LEVANTE SL
Organization address
address: CARRETERA FONT ROJA 13 contact info |
ES (ALCOY) | participant | 50˙320.00 |
| 8 |
RB BIOBASED INSTITUTE B.V.
Organization address
address: DENARIUSSTRAAT 19 contact info |
NL (OOSTERHOUT) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Agriculture is one of the biggest sectors in Europe, representing a gross value added around EUR 148 billion, employing almost 25 million people in the EU-27(2011). However, this sector faces nowadays several challenges: competition with cheaper products from other countries, lower margins, and stringent policies, while keeping required productivity, safety and sustainability within EU. Development of a competitive and sustainable agriculture will not be possible without providing the tools to valorize its products through novel products and techniques. Nowadays, ecological concern has resulted in a renewed interest in materials derived from renewable resources, like natural fibres. Although the demand for natural fibers is growing worldwide and its price is increasing, annual plants such as jute, sisal, kenaf, flax or hemp require further development to provide novel products with improved properties. Packaging industry has a huge interest in reducing packaging materials and associated wastes, biodegradable materials have been evaluated for this application. However, the use of biodegradable films for food packaging has been strongly limited because of the poor barrier properties and weak mechanical properties shown by natural polymers. A possible strategy to increase its properties is the development of fibre based biocomposites. In TRAYSRENEW project (FP7-SME-2010, Proposal number 262269) poultry packaging materials derived from hemp and flax composites were processed and characterised. However, further efforts need to be performed to optimise project results. FLHEA will use the results from Traysrenew to provide a novel range of surface modified reinforcements. The project will focus on the upscaling and modification of micro and nanoreinforcements based in Hemp and flax, and its subsequent processing to obtain composites with improved properties. A demonstration task will evaluate sheet extrusion and thermoforming of food packaging trays.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
An EU research project is looking to hemp and flax fibres for creating sustainable packaging.