EUROPHA

Novel technology to boost the European Bioeconomy: reducing the production costs of PHA biopolymer and expanding its applications as 100% compostable food packaging bioplastic

Coordinatore	FEDERACION DE COOPERATIVAS AGRARIASDE MURCIA S COOP    more  Organization address address: CALLE CABALLERO 13 city: MURCIA postcode: 30002 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Pedro Cognome: Sánchez Email: send email Telefono: +34 968351282
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	2˙093˙640 €
EC contributo	1˙572˙902 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2013
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME-AG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-10-01   -   2016-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FEDERACION DE COOPERATIVAS AGRARIASDE MURCIA S COOP  Organization address address: CALLE CABALLERO 13 city: MURCIA postcode: 30002 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Pedro Cognome: Sánchez Email: send email Telefono: +34 968351282	ES (MURCIA)	coordinator	360˙238.50
2	THE BRITISH PLASTICS FEDERATION LBG  Organization address address: RIVINGTON STREET 6 BATH PLACE city: LONDON postcode: EC2A 3JE contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tim Cognome: Mardsen Email: send email Telefono: +44 2074575017	UK (LONDON)	participant	296˙220.00
3	SVENSK PLASTINDUSTRIFORENING  Organization address address: PO BOX 22307 city: STOCKHOLM postcode: 104 22 contact info Titolo: Mrs Nome: Frantzeska Cognome: Papadopoulou Email: send email Telefono: +46 84401196	SE (STOCKHOLM)	participant	292˙309.00
4	NUEVAS TECNOLOGIAS PARA EL DESARROLO DE PACKAGING Y PRODUCTOS AGROALIMENTARIOS CON COMPONENTE PLASTICA SL  Organization address address: POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL EMPRESARIUM C/ ROMERO 12 city: ZARAGOZA postcode: 50720 contact info Titolo: Mrs Nome: Berta Cognome: Gonzalvo Email: send email Telefono: +34 600570682	ES (ZARAGOZA)	participant	245˙943.55
5	IDRODEPURAZIONE  Organization address address: VIA COMINA 39 city: SEREGNO postcode: 20038 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Michele Cognome: Benedetti Email: send email Telefono: +39 036227511	IT (SEREGNO)	participant	212˙040.55
6	PLASTIPOLIS  Organization address address: Rue Pierre et Marie Curie 180 city: OYONNAX postcode: 1115 contact info Titolo: Mrs Nome: Charlotte Cognome: Thevenet Email: send email Telefono: +33 474121923	FR (OYONNAX)	participant	143˙230.50
7	TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL  Organization address address: CALLE MIGUEL VILLANUEVA 2 6 PISO PUERTA 3 city: LOGRONO postcode: 26001 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Alfredo Cognome: Sanchez Email: send email Telefono: +34 914170457	ES (LOGRONO)	participant	10˙253.00
8	INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLOGICA  Organization address address: Av. da Republica, Quinta do Marques S/N city: OEIRAS postcode: 2781901 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Elsa Cognome: Vieira Email: send email Telefono: +351 21 441 4745	PT (OEIRAS)	participant	6˙392.00
9	EIDGENOESSISCHE MATERIALPRUEFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT  Organization address address: Ueberlandstrasse 129 city: DUEBENDORF postcode: 8600 contact info Titolo: Mrs Nome: Qun Cognome: Ren Email: send email Telefono: +41 587657688	CH (DUEBENDORF)	participant	6˙275.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Bioplastics like PHA are long-term sustainable alternatives because they can show equal performance to conventional petrochemical plastics, originate from renewable non-food resources and are 100% bio-degradable. Although PHA shows better performance than alternative bioplastics (PLA and starch), the market uptake of PHA biosplastics shows the following obstacles: 1) PHA is expensive (>4.5 €/kg), much higher than starch plastics and other bio-based polyesters. This is caused by three facts in the production process: High raw material costs; expensive PHA extraction to ensure high quality; small production volumes. The second obstacle is the 2) Small market share of European PHA (dominated by China and US) that limits the potential of a European Bioeconomy. EuroPHA will solve the need to establish a competitive PHA production capacity in Europe by: a) Reduction of PHA production costs: using low-value feedstock (agro-food waste/surplus streams) as starting material in three-phase biological synthesis of PHA by mixed microbial culture; b) Environmentally friendly & cost-effective PHA extraction step; c) Novel formulations of PHA for 100% complete and short-time biodegradability packaging bioplastics by current industrial technology: monolayer film and extrusion foam for food packaging. EuroPHA will provide these economic benefits for Europe by our project members: 40% reduction of final price (≈2.6€/kg), this will enable the increase of European PHA global market share from current 0.1% to 15% in five years post project (45 ktpa worth 135€ million) for food packaging applications. Price-competitiveness vs. starch-based (today 3.75 €/k) and PLA (2.5€/kg) making possible to penetrate a 20% in the starch-plastic market (22 kpta with revenues of 90€ million) and 15% in the PLA market (23 kpta worth 50€ million) in five years post project. Turnover of 50€ million from 20kpta production in five years post project for new applications.'