AINIA / Packaging
- 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
- 2023
MICOALGA-FEED
Development of new feed formulations that, when supplemented with fungi and microalgae, provide inhibitory and/or antimicrobial effects, enhance local immunity, and support saprophytic intestinal flora, improving animal welfare in poultry farming. The companies HIFAS VETERINARY S.L., NEOALGAE MICRO SEAWEED PRODUCTS S.L.N.E., GRUPO UVESA and FEUGA are involved in this project.
- 2023
SEGURAM
Design of new processes to enable the valorisation of by-products to obtain natural preservatives and functional animal feed. DELAFRUIT is working with AINIA on this project, in which the potential of the direct use of plant-based by-products, after conditioning and stabilisation, as active ingredients in animal diets has been studied. The project is part of the CIEN call of CDTI.
- 2023
PREDIMIC
Collaborative research project supported by CDTI for the predictive control of microbiological contamination risks in food production, based on machine learning techniques. VERDIFRESH, GRUPO ENTREPINARES and SAN DALMAI are involved in this project.
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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