Coming to Interpack? We are there!
Our partners are going to be at Interpack:
- European Bioplastics
Organises the guided tour Packaging Futures on 11 May at 2 pm CEST
- TotalEnergies Corbion, Hall 10, B58
Showcasing how Luminy® PLA is enabling circular solutions across packaging applications.
- Novamont
Showcasing compostable barrier packaging solutions based on Mater-Bi with paper & pulp in collaboration with METPACK (Hall 10 / D96) and THE NAVIGATOR COMPANY (Hall 8a / E14)
- AIMPLAS Hall 9, D14
Key product facts: AIMPLAS is a research and innovation institute focusing on plastic-free packaging alternatives, innovative materials and smart packaging with sensors for traceability. Through the BioSupPack project, AIMPLAS coordinated the development of PHA- and PHB-based materials from brewery waste, including PHA plastisol coatings that are 99% biobased and fully biodegradable — applicable to paperboard as alternatives to PE coatings — and industrially compostable fibre-based packaging with barrier properties comparable to fossil-based plastics, suitable for applications such as ice cream cups and trays. Through the Horizon Europe-funded GRECO project, AIMPLAS is implementing reactive extrusion (REX) as a green chemistry technology to develop tailor-made, safe-and-sustainable-by-design PLA-based copolymers for the food packaging sector, scaling them up to TRL 7; at demonstrative scale, GRECO is designing flexible and rigid food packaging formats — for cheese, processed meat, fresh meat, berries, and nuts — that prevent moisture and aroma loss and extend shelf life, in direct alignment with the PPWR. On the end-of-life side, AIMPLAS coordinates the Spanish Hub of the EU-funded ReBioCycle project, working on sorting, mechanical recycling, and enzymatic recycling of bioplastics, with the aim of demonstrating that biodegradable plastics are fully recyclable and upcyclable at industrially relevant scale. ReBioCycle will also characterise and validate the quality of the recycled materials obtained, providing the evidence base needed to anchor bioplastics recycling firmly within European circular economy policy frameworks. Together, these three projects position AIMPLAS as a uniquely comprehensive actor — advancing bioplastic material innovation, scaling food packaging applications, and solving the end-of-life puzzle simultaneously.