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Abstract:
The two-year project Svarnish left behind 18 months and continues successfully. The project will develop a varnish with antimicrobial, oxygen and water vapour barrier properties and improved physic mechanical properties to be used in food industry.

The European project SVARNISH, a step forward in the food packaging sector

Brussels, Belgium | Posted on June 11th, 2015

8 entities from several EU countries had come together to constitute project consortium. The consortium consists of research centers and companies that have significant expertise in the related area. The project had started on October 2013 and planned to finish on August 2015.

Recent developments in technology and raising awareness of environmental issues have led researchers to seek innovative solutions in food packaging industry. The industry needs to be adapted to developments and get ahead of the state of art to meet customer needs and environmental issues as well as to differentiate itself from the competitors. The main factors determining the quality of food packaging products are oxygen-moisture barrier and mechanical resistance. Traditional food packaging sector uses multilayer structures to provide different properties and functionalities to the packaging. These multilayer structures are expensive and difficult to recycle. New applications using nanotechnology in food packaging started to emerge lately and provided some improved film characteristics, but even with these approaches multilayer structures are still in use.

The Svarnish project purpose is overcoming the packaging limitations by simplifying multilayer structures used in current market and developing environmentally friendly, low cost and recyclable packaging solutions by using the advances in nanotechnology.

The project will provide better quality product for food preservation. The price and the waste material of the food packaging will reduce due to the new structure. Besides that, the manufacturing time and hence, the energy consumption will reduce. Reduction in food waste will be achieved as a consequence of a better conservation conditions and the resulting films for food packaging will be more easily recycled.

Consequently, the main objective of SVARNISH is to offer an innovative solution to food packaging industry in many aspects.

The entities that take part in the consortium of the project are the Technological Centers AIDO (Spain), MATRI (United Kingdom), NOFIMA (Norway), and the companies ARTIBAL (Spain), A.HATZOPOULOS S.A. (Greece), SNANO (Turkey), AROMA PRAHA (Czech Republic), and FERRERO SPA (Italy), as end user.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program managed by REA Research Executive Agency http://ec.europa.eu/research/rea(FP7/2007‐2013) under grant agreement no.”606446”

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