{"id":53430,"date":"2018-06-07T07:38:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T05:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=53430"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:53:05","slug":"trialling-a-new-fibre-based-ready-meal-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/trialling-a-new-fibre-based-ready-meal-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Trialling a new fibre-based ready meal packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bildschirmfoto<\/span>A trial version of a renewable fibre-based ready meal packaging will be tested with consumers in the UK starting end May. Huhtamaki is part of a three-party consortium developing an alternative to existing plastic ready meal trays.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With headquarters in Finland, Huhtamaki researchers, led by Harald Kuiper in the Netherlands, have been working to create a tray that will cook the food safely and can handle the temperatures and humidity of a microwave or conventional oven.<\/p>\n

The concept is being tested with two Italian style ready meals at a major UK retail chain in May-June. The trial is part of a project aiming at developing a bio-based ready meal package for the UK market. The new tray offers a viable alternative to black plastic packaging, which is problematic for the waste processers’ lasers that identify materials for recycling.<\/p>\n

Ready meal consumption continues to grow throughout Europe and new sustainable solutions are welcome. The new material, Durapulp, is a bio-composite, a mixture of cellulose and GMO-free polylactic acid (PLA) feels like cardboard and is made of fiber derived from Forest Stewardship Council certified sources. It is laminated with a new generation biofilm made from BioPBS, using a novel lamination method to create the technical properties (low O2 barrier, heat and wet resistance) needed for a high-end ready meal tray.<\/p>\n

“We hope this novel solution will be well received and that this project will be a tipping point for the adoption of bio-based packages in this segment. We know that alternatives based on renewable materials are needed,” said Steve Davey at Huhtamaki.<\/p>\n

“Both producers and consumers are demanding alternatives to plastic packaging. The material Durapulp is a renewable alternative and suitable for sensitive substances such as food,” said Catrin Gustavsson, Senior Vice President of Innovation and New Business at S\u00f6dra.<\/p>\n

Huhtamaki has developed this new packaging concept in partnership with S\u00f6dra and Saladworks in an EU-funded project called FRESH. The FRESH-project will continue until 2020.
\nFor more information, follow the FRESH project at http:\/\/www.huhtamaki.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A trial version of a renewable fibre-based ready meal packaging will be tested with consumers in the UK starting end May. Huhtamaki is part of a three-party consortium developing an alternative to existing plastic ready meal trays. With headquarters in Finland, Huhtamaki researchers, led by Harald Kuiper in the Netherlands, have been working to create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[14279,7105],"supplier":[14509,14584,8002],"class_list":["post-53430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biocomposite","tag-packaging","supplier-huhtamaki-group","supplier-saladworks","supplier-sodra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53430"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=53430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}