- Packaging Sector
Solutions for packaging
Sector challenges
- Sustainable packaging: ecodesign, recyclability and reduction of environmental footprint
- Compliancein food contact materials (FCM)
- Active and intelligent packaging that extends shelf life and improves user experience
- Cost optimisation and packaging performance
- Improving consumer usability and experience
Our value proposition
- 360° approach: material-product-process-consumer
- Laboratories specialised in FCM, migration, barrier, sealing and mechanical properties
- Recyclability and packaging upcycling
Solutions and services
We offer solutions that integrate sustainability, digitalisation, new raw materials and products, and regulatory compliance, supported by more than 300 professionals and 21 pilot plants dedicated to innovative technologies that enable processes to be scaled up to pre-industrial levels.
R&D&I and technology
- Development of biomaterials from industry by-products
- Design of packaging solutions that are easier to recycle
- Biodegradability, recyclability and compostability studies
Design of packaging with more sustainable materials
Cellulosic materials, recycled polymers, …
Computer vision and data analytics for sealing control and inline quality
Laboratory
- FCM, overall and specific migration, NIAS, material characterisation
- Packaging-product compatibility and shelf-life studies
Sealing and hermeticity testing
Thermal and ultrasonic integrity
Consumer and market
Pack experience
Usability, opening/closing, ergonomics, perception of sustainability
Consumer testing and sensory analysis applied to packaging
Events
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Success stories
- 2022
SAVECREAM
The SAVECREAM project is aimed at reducing the volume of waste generated in ice cream production by optimising the use of creams produced during start-ups, reusing and reconditioning them for subsequent use in the production process. AINIA’s collaboration focuses on monitoring the degradation or loss of functionality of the ingredients used, as well as evaluating the impact of using reprocessed creams on the characteristics and shelf life of different ice cream categories. This improvement not only contributes to reducing waste and its environmental impact, but also to lowering the consumption of ingredients with a high carbon footprint, such as dairy products or tropical fats, among others. This new circular economy model will also lead to reduced water consumption during the ice cream manufacturing process.
- 2024
BLOOD4GOOD
This project aims to valorise pig slaughterhouse blood in order to obtain a powdered protein hydrolysate for food use, which may be of potential interest to two end-user companies in the food sector: MATADEROS INDUSTRIALES SOLER S.A. and MORENO RUÍZ HERMANOS S.L. In addition, the feasibility of using the pig blood protein hydrolysate, in a prior non-dehydrated stage, as a biostimulant will be assessed by HEROGRA FERTILIZANTES S.A. The project is funded by Supra-Regional Operational Groups.
- 2023
PHOTONFOOD
The overall objective of the project is to investigate the application of photonic technologies in the agri-food chain to address the major challenges faced by society. The project involves AINIA, UPV, and a consortium made up of MULTISCAN, INCARLOPSA, PIGCHAMP, ROBOTNIK, PROPORSEG, TRIANGLE and NIT. It is funded by CDTI through the Misiones call.
Capabilities and infrastructure
- FCM laboratories
- Packaging pilot plants
- Climatic and shelf-life chambers
- Equipment for barrier, sealing, strength and characterisation analysis
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