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Seeking Glue-free and Plastic-free closure of paper packaging

• Posted by Stefano Resta from Fater SpA
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• Project Size : 50,000 - 250,000 €

We are looking for a technology to seal paper packaging materials (paper only with no plastic coating) without using traditional glues or any other additive. For a sustainable packaging application, we're looking for a technology to seal or crimp kraft paper without using glue or plastic coating applied on the paper. Ideally, we want to seal 100% untreated paper without adding any other chemicals. Our preferred solution would be a folding of the packaging material

Seeking existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects

• Posted by The Procter & Gamble Company
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• Project Size : Strategic project backed by large scale funding €

The issue of crawling insects in homes has been an ongoing issue. The popular types of crawling insects causing problems have been ants and cockroaches. The search will focus on existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects such as ants and cockroaches (other types of crawling insects are in scope i.e., bed bugs).

Seeking Recyclable Closure for Paper Beverage Bottles

• Posted by PepsiCo
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• Deadline : 1970-01-01

We are seeking technologies for a re-closable fiber-based closure for a paper beverage bottle that can be recycled in the paper stream.

Microbial extracts from saline marshes with outstanding moisturizing, UV-filter, wounding care and metal chelant properties

• Posted by jaume mir from Biochemize SL
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

Saline marshes are natural environments with hard conditions supporting life due to the high concentration of salts. Thus, microbial flora surviving there needs to develop high performance molecular mechanisms to retain water against osmotic pressure. Biochemize has developed a low-cost and non-invasive process for the isolation of those microorganisms and to obtain from those biomass extracts (containing high amounts of carotenes, licopenes and flavonoids, among other) with high capacities for the retention of water (much higher that those from hyaluronic acid), for filtering UV-radiation, for wounding care, and with outstanding properties as anti-oxidants and/or metal chelants. Applications for pharma, cosmetic and agrofood industries are proposed. A first set of studies of the properties of these extracts is available.

Technology to Modify Alcohol Content in Alcoholic Beverages

• Posted by Melvyn Ho from Clariant
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

The company has developed an innovative process which removes only the alcohol while preserving all other flavours in beer. The patented technology is currently in system prototype state (TRL 6) and the company is keen to partner with global breweries and other global beverage companies to develop low-alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages. Shifting beverage consumption patterns along with rising preference for low liquor content beverages are the key factor propelling non-alcoholic beer demand. Increasing health awareness among consumers towards the harmful effects of liquor coupled with changing lifestyle is expected to propel industry growth. Considerable shift of young individuals to purchase a variety of alcohol-free or low alcohol variants is expected to drive product penetration. The changing demographic trends of growing Muslim population has also provided a positive outlook for non-alcoholic beer market. But TASTE is still a major issue which has held back a real boom of non-alcoholic beer. Market shares could easily rise to 20-25% of total sales volume from today's 3-4%, if the right technology comes along. Current biological or physical processes so far used to remove or prevent alcohol often also remove taste-related flavours or alter the flavour profile of the finished product.

Acidosis saver for efficient anaerobic digestion

• Posted by Fabian Belin from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

The technology is based on bioaugmentation which consists of adding specialized microorganisms to biological systems to improve performances. The bioaugmentation in AD is done via a specific microbiome enriched in a unique Cloacimonetes organism which boost the AD process robustness and efficiency. Our microbial technology acts by quickly and efficiently consuming propionate and other VFAs present in the anaerobic reactors allowing to restart methane production (Figure 1).