Overview knowledge institutes
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Country |
Institute |
Expertise |
Theme |
| All over Europe | EXPRA | Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance | recycling |
| Belgium | Fostplus | Sorting, recycling | |
| Pack4Food, Ghent | Active packaging, barriers, bio-plastics, migration, design, logistics, sustainability. OptiBarrier project: multi-year research into optimal barriers (liners etcetera). |
Technical expertise | |
| University of Hasselt Packaging Technology Center, Diepenbeek | Measuring gas permeability of materials and packaging, physical/mechanical characterisation of (packaging) materials (plastics, paper and cardboard), characterisation of environmental variables (temperature, humidity, UV), transport simulation, and eco-design. | Technical expertise | |
| Valipac, Wemmel | Collection of packaging waste | Collection | |
| Denmark | Danish Technological Institute, Plastic and Packaging, Taastrup | Technics, materials, new packaging facilities, eg. The Technological Institute works with Carlsberg and EcoXpac to develop fiber bottles for beer and water. | Consumer responses |
| Germany | BFSV, Verpackungsinstitut Hamburg GmbH Non Profit | Applied research of packaging materials and consultancy & testing. | Technical packaging materials |
| Fed. Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin | Technology, materials, NIR systems, and dangerous goods packaging. | Sustainability | |
| Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Berlin | Packaging concepts, material testing, barrier films, hybrid materials, compliance & migration, shelf life simulation, recycle-systems, and environmental impacts. | Recycling | |
| Grüner Punkt, Cologne | Sustainable packaging, licensing, recycling | ||
| Stuttgart Media University | Packaging technology | Technical packaging materials | |
| France | Citeo, Paris | ||
| Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne | 'Comportement dynamique des systemes démballage' studies the relationship between packaging materials and functionality. | Technical packaging materials | |
| Italy | Conai | National packaging consortium | |
| The Netherlands | HAS Hogeschool Den Bosch | Food innovation and packaging | Food and design |
| Haagse Hogeschool (HHS), The Hague | Industrial design with a specialisation in packaging design | Packaging design | |
| Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) | Design tools, packaging development, environmental impact | Packaging design | |
| National Test Centre Circular Plastics (NTCP), Heerenveen | Sorting and recycling | Circular plastics | |
| Polymer Science Parc, Zwolle | Plastic innovation, new technologies | Plastics | |
| TNO Brightlands, Maastricht | Innovation in performance materials | ||
| University of Twente | Packaging design and management, design methodology, structural packaging design, material development and sustainable packaging | Decision-making, technical expertise | |
| University of Utrecht (UU) | Reusable pacakging materials, evironmental analysis (Life Cycle Assesments) | Reusable packaging | |
| Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (WUR) | Materials, laminates, migration, sorting and recycling | Sorting and recycling, laminates | |
| Norway | Grønt Punkt Norge | Recovery and recycling of used packaging on behalf of the industrial sector | recycling |
| Nofima As, Tromso | Applied research in food | Food | |
| NORSUS (former: Ostfold Research), Krakeroy | Food waste: mapping of quantities of food waste and reasons why food waste occurs, documentation and analysis of packaging use in a life-cycle perspective, and LCA of packaging and foodstuffs as a basis for documentation and improvement. | Food | |
| Spain | AIDIMME, Paterna/ Valencia | ||
| Ecoembes, Madrid | eco-design, ackaging waste, recycling, circular economy | ||
| Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos, Paterna | Food science and Bio technology | Food | |
| Instituto Tecnologico De Aragon, Zaragoza | |||
| Itene, Paterna | Technics, Materials, Bio and Nano technology. Eg: Biosmart, Sherpack, Pulpacktion. Packaging Pilo Plant to test new materials. | Bio-based and degradable | |
| Sweden | Karlstad University | Department of Engineering Chemical Sciences. Consumer behaviour & Food Waste. | Food waste behaviour |
| Linköping University | Industrial Design Engineering, department of management and engineering, division of machine design, material sciences. | Industrial design engineering, sorting and recycling | |
| RISE, Stockholm | New materials with interactive functions | Materials and bio-based | |
| Switzerland | NESTEC SA, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne | Research focus areas will include recyclable, biodegradable or compostable polymers, functional paper, as well as new packaging concepts and technologies to increase the recyclability of plastic packaging. | New concepts and technologies |
| School of Engineering and Management Vaud, Packaging Laboratory (HEIG-VD), Yverdon-les-Bains | COMATEC: Institute of Mechanical Design, Materials Science and Packaging Technologies. Design and characterisation of packaging. Product-packaging interactions, determination of gas, water vapor and aroma permeation, migration, active and intelligent packaging | Migration | |
| United Kingdom | WRAP, Oxon | Waste Management Consultants, collections and reprocessing. | Collection, sorting and recycling |