The AGROCIRCULAR PERTE, framed within the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan of the Government of Spain, is part of the ECOFOOD23 flagship project and the primary AGROFILM25 project.

The purpose of this project is to develop a bio-based food packaging that meets the necessary technical requirements, such as sealability and barriers to moisture and oxygen, while being sustainable and recyclable.

To achieve this, innovative methods are being explored to valorize cellulose waste from the paper or cardboard packaging transformation processes, to create new bio-coatings that can be applied to packaging, resulting in a monomaterial, biocompostable, and easily recyclable product.

Simultaneously, research is underway to develop more sustainable inks that can be used on these new types of packaging.

The IM-PACK project aims to expand the application of an innovative technology, based on the use of supercritical fluids, to obtain active biodegradable packaging with antioxidant and antimicrobial properties.

IM-PACK bases its study on demonstrating that active ingredients extracted from agricultural by-products can be used in the impregnation of biodegradable packaging through sustainable techniques.

The consortium is formed by the University of Constantine in Algeria, the University of Aveiro (Portugal), the University of Aix-Marseilles (France), the University of Udine (Italy), Abdelmalek Essaadi University (Morocco), Keey Aerogels (France), Eversia (Spain), and the University of Cádiz, which will coordinate the project.

Eversia plays a crucial role in this consortium as it is responsible for analyzing the market and assessing the feasibility of the new materials, as well as the development of biodegradable packaging impregnated with supercritical fluids.

IM-PACK will be carried out over 36 months, between 2023 and 2025, with the support of the PRIMA Program and the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI).

We are a company benefiting from subsidies from the Government of Spain, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, for outermost regions to support freight transport in the Canary Islands.

As part of Eversia’s desire to innovate in terms of recycling and sustainability, they are working on obtaining new multilayer barrier packaging solutions that have the ability to be recyclable.

The new LAMPACK project, led by the R+D+i team, aims to respond to the problems that arise in the management of waste generated by multilayer structures. To correct these incidents, recyclable PE multilayer packaging structures with a high barrier to oxygen will be developed using lamination technologies. The materials that will be used to achieve this are PE films, coatings and soluble adhesives that favor recyclability.

The AGRO2CIRCULAR project is focused on the implementation of the first systemic territorial solution for the recycling of the most relevant residues of the agri-food sector (fruits and vegetables and plastic multilayers) in products with high added value, driven by a digital tool and built on a systemic with high replicable / scalable potential.

Eversia will participate in the definition of the requirements for the packaging sector and will validate the demonstrators in an industrial environment, building a multidimensional model that allows its scalability and maximizes the impacts of the project, facilitating the replication of the A2C systemic solution.

CIMPA is an EU-funded project with the goal of creating an economy that prevents multilayer plastic films from ever becoming waste. The goal is to develop a recycling value chain for post-industrial and post-consumer multilayer film (used in food and agriculture) to retain between 12% and 72% of its value. Up to 2.34 Mt of recycled materials will be saved per year and reintroduced into production to replace virgin materials.

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Ultimately, the objective is to produce recycled materials that meet the necessary standards for use in both agricultural applications and packaging designed to come into contact with food.

 The European Commission is the funding body.

Our aim to provide biocompostable solutions of the highest quality in processes takes another step forward with the completion of the EXTRUBIO2 project “INCREASING PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY WITH NEW EXTRUDERS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BIOPLASTICS”, thanks to support from the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) at the Ministry of Industry, Economy and Competitiveness, and co-financed by the European Union (ERDF Funds).

This initiative began in November 2019, when the company’s staff set the objective of increasing the production capacity of the existing facility by acquiring new equipment.

After 18 months of work at the Molina de Segura plant, and with a CDTI contribution of €1,147,500, the company has rose to the technological challenge it sought.

The REBIO project is co-financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness under the “Challenges-Collaboration” programme, and co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The aim is to promote technological development, innovation and quality research.

Biodegradable plastics should be collected in the organic fraction, but this type of process is not currently being managed properly. It is in this context that the REBIO project arose. It aims to work on the creation and design of a technological solution for recycling biodegradable plastics.

After three years of studies, research and testing, the REBIO project comes to a close with the design and manufacture of products made from recycled biodegradable plastics, as work has been carried out on a pre-consumer and a post-consumer fraction. These products include biodegradable plastic bags with recycled bioplastic content of up to 30%, with no detriment to mechanical properties (AIMPLAS and EVERSIA), clips for agricultural crops with recycled bioplastic content of 15% (INSERPLASA), as well as a stationery clip prototype made of 100% recycled bioplastic (GAIKER).

In October 2017, Eversia completed the project “Substitution of two single-layer extruders and one cutter for a three-layer extruder and one cutter”, part of the energy saving and efficiency support line for SMEs and large companies in the industrial sector, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and managed by IDAE under the National Energy Efficiency Fund. Total investment was €1,321,600, and was supported with aid of €91,854.27.

In accordance with Spanish royal decree, the company wishes to reduce emission levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to below 100mg/Nm3 per focus. The highest emissions are concentrated in the printing room, where the solvent-based inks that are used emit mainly isopropyl alcohol and methoxypropanol. These solvent-based inks provide very high production yields and excellent quality. The actions carried out to reduce VOC emissions were: Implementing a COV catcher, introducing water-based inks, studying the phenomenon of “orange peel” in blowing, increasing the yield and quality of printing.

Development of a biodegradable complex with gas barrier properties. One of the drawbacks of biodegradable materials is the barrier to their gases, which is why this project aims to develop biodegradable structures to increase the shelf life of foods packaged in biodegradable structures.