Visuals, German version and PDF file available at:\u00a0www.nova-institute.eu\/press\/?id=198<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As in every year, the Innovation Award \u201cBio-based Material of the Year\u201d was granted to the most innovative materials and products on the market. Six companies out of 17 applications were previously nominated by an expert jury and the nominees brought their innovative ideas via screen to the participants’ homes. After the presentations of the six nominees, the winners were elected by the audience in an online poll and awarded with their prize, sponsored by YNCORIS Industrial Services (H\u00fcrth, Germany). Here are the three winners in detail (see also\u00a0Graphic: Winner\u00a0of the innovation award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2020).<\/p>\n Huhtamaki Lurgan (UK\/Finland): Fresh \u2013 Biodegradable ready meal packaging<\/strong> monta Klebebandwerk (Germany): monta biopack\u00ae \u2013 self-adhesive tape<\/strong> Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC (Germany): bioORMOCER\u00ae \u2013 functional barrier coatings<\/strong> nova-Institute would like to acknowledge the companies NESTE (Germany\/Finland) and UPM (Germany\/Finland) for supporting the conference as Gold Sponsors. Special thanks go to YNCORIS Industrial Services (Germany) for sponsoring the innovation award \u201cBio-based Material of the Year 2020\u201d. Last but not least, we would also like to thank our premium partner CLIB for supporting the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Especially in uncertain times, the need for exchange, cooperation and innovation within the bio-based economy is even higher than usual. Politicians and companies are louder than ever calling for a greener economy after the crisis. However, what are the best ways to make the chemical and plastics industry more sustainable? What role can and will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,7192],"tags":[11270,5838,6026,10416,12239,7105,12344],"supplier":[3628,16916,16917,16565,16922,4,16921,16656],"class_list":["post-74956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-novapress","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biopolymers","tag-circulareconomy","tag-compostability","tag-packaging","tag-verpackungen","supplier-clib2021","supplier-fraunhofer-institut-fuer-silicatforschung-isc","supplier-huhtamaki-lurgan","supplier-monta-klebebandwerk-gmbh","supplier-neste-germany-gmbh-renewable-and-circular-polymers-and-chemicals","supplier-nova-institut-gmbh","supplier-upm-biofore-house","supplier-yncoris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74956","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74956"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=74956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"20-05-13](\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20-05-13-winners_bbmaterial_2020_330px_zimpel.png\")
First place<\/h3>\n
\nFresh is a fully bio-based and biodegradable ready meal packaging. It is a wood fibre-based ready meal tray, which is functional as a black plastic alternative, but easier to recycle and certified for home composting. It is made from natural wood fibres which are sourced from FSC certified and renewable Nordic forests. Fresh has been developed in collaboration by Huhtamaki, Saladworks (UK), and S\u00f6dra (SE) through a BBI JU funded Horizon 2020 project (February 2017 \u2013 July 2020). The tray is food-safe, both oven proof and microwavable, cooler to touch, maintains rigid when heated and natural aesthetically pleasing. Trays are produced in Northern Ireland by Huhtamaki Lurgan using bespoke machines which were developed by Huhtamaki engineers.
\nMore information: www.huhtamaki.com<\/a><\/p>\nSecond place<\/h3>\n
\nmonta biopack\u00ae is the first certified sustainable self-adhesive tape made in Germany. Made from about 90% renewable resources, its carrier is a bio-based PLA film that is coated with a natural rubber adhesive. Under industrial composting conditions, this packaging tape biodegrades within a few months. monta biopack\u00ae meets the requirements on disintegration, biodegradation, ecotoxicity and material characteristics of EN 13432, ASTM D 6400-04, AS 4736 (2006) and ISO 17088 (2012): Certified by T\u00dcV Austria and awarded with the \u201cOK COMPOST INDUSTRIAL\u201d conformity mark, monta biopack\u00ae is the eco-friendly choice for sealing cardboard boxes, biodegradable bags and for bundling flowers and garden waste. Its sustainable roll length of 80 m and 1,200 m reduces unnecessary packaging waste.
\nMore information: www.monta.de<\/a><\/p>\nThird place<\/h3>\n
\nFraunhofer ISC has developed a functional barrier coating (bioORMOCER\u00ae) that enables mono-material packaging, paper-based and compostable. With these coatings, the properties required for packaging food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals can be achieved. The packaging can be easily recycled or composted. bioORMOCER\u00ae is bio-based and compostable and it uses bioorganic structures from green waste, or chitosan.
\nMore information: www.isc.fraunhofer.de<\/a><\/p>\n