SafePack-Plastic/Flouro Free Food Contact Packaging

SafePack-无塑料/无面粉食品接触包装

• 批准号: 79401
• 金额: $ 21.65万
• 依托单位: CELLUCOMP LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=79401
• 关键词: SafePack; Plastic; Flouro; Free; Food

CelluComp will use its fully sustainable microfibrilated cellulose from vegetable waste streams - called Curran, to provide the specific barrier properties required for food packaging, without the use of plastic and/or fluorochemicals. Curran will be used as a mix in the paper pulp and as an additive for coatings. Along with outside consultancy, CelluComp has developed a ready-to-use barrier coating for food packaging.Specifically, CelluComp will utilise its lab, outside consultancy and customer relations to prove the technical and sustainable viability of using Curran in food packaging. CelluComp will make hand sheets of paper for flat sheet applications using different levels of Curran, starches and other components to maximize paper quality suitable for different end applications in food packaging. CelluComp will measure strength, porosity, and the effects the Curran-based sheet will have on grease barrier, water vapour barrier and oxygen barrier. Once the most optimized sheets are produced, CelluComp will add coatings to this paper and commercial food contact papers and retest for the same properties.CelluComp will also test Curran in paper products produced by moulded fibre production. As with the flat sheets, measurements for strength, porosity, cost and barrier will be considered. Curran-based coatings will also be tested on these moulded paper products. These tests will also be verified with potential end customers and at a larger scale.At the end of the project, CelluComp will be able to gather important information on the best direction to focus its efforts in the food-packaging industry. It will aim to complete 1 piece of work leading to a concrete new packaging solution with a customer that will launch in the short term and produce immediate impact.Finally, testing of biodegradation, LCA analysis and migration studies will take place to ensure the safety of the new packaging for food and register the impact on sustainability.

CelluComp将使用其完全可持续的微纤化纤维素从蔬菜废物流-所谓的柯伦，以提供食品包装所需的特定屏障性能，而不使用塑料和/或含氟化合物。柯伦将被用作纸浆的混合物和涂料的添加剂。沿着外部咨询，CelluComp开发了一种即用型食品包装阻隔涂料。具体而言，CelluComp将利用其实验室，外部咨询和客户关系来证明在食品包装中使用Curran的技术和可持续性。CelluComp将使用不同水平的Curran，淀粉和其他成分为平板应用制作手抄纸，以最大限度地提高纸张质量，适用于食品包装中的不同终端应用。CelluComp将测量强度、孔隙率以及基于Curran的片材对油脂阻隔、水蒸气阻隔和氧气阻隔的影响。一旦生产出最优化的纸张，CelluComp将在这种纸和商业食品接触纸上添加涂层，并重新测试相同的性能。CelluComp还将在模塑纤维生产的纸产品中测试Curran。与平板一样，将考虑强度、孔隙率、成本和屏障的测量。基于Curran的涂料也将在这些模塑纸产品上进行测试。这些测试还将在更大范围内与潜在的最终客户进行验证。在项目结束时，CelluComp将能够收集有关最佳方向的重要信息，以专注于食品包装行业。我们的目标是完成一项工作，为客户提供一个具体的新包装解决方案，该解决方案将在短期内推出并产生立竿见影的效果。最后，将进行生物降解测试，LCA分析和迁移研究，以确保新食品包装的安全性，并记录对可持续性的影响。