The project is coordinated by Jose María Lagarón Cabello from Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC).
YPACK brings together the necessary competence and resources to ensure the achievement of the project goals and the ensure an impact of these results at both European and international level. YPACK consortium consists of a multidisciplinary team of 21 partners from 10 European Union member countries or associated.
These partners are key actors and stakeholders in the field of food novel packaging, including raw material researchers and developers, packaging manufacturers, food retailers and producers, and consumers research.
Belgium
Avecom is an innovative company with a main focus on steering and optimizing microbial processes. Together with their partners, they develop and produce bioproducts & applications for and from bacteria, produce high quality feed- and foodstuff and exploit microbial insights Europe.
EUFIC, European Food Information Council, is a non-profit organization that offers accessible, appealing and actionable science-based information on food and health – to inspire and empower both the general public and health professionals.
EUFIC has extensive expertise in translating and tailoring scientific results into digestible materials. Versatile audio-visual materials are produced to satisfy the needs of different audiences, from simple infographics explaining basic food and health concepts, to thorough reviews of scientific literature. EUFIC’s communication tools and networks then ensure a broad and effective dissemination.
Hungary
LC Innoconsult (Laser Consult Ltd.) is an international innovation management consulting company (SME) which was established in 1992 with the objective of servicing its clients from the innovation idea all the way to commercialising intellectual products by providing complex innovation services. The company’s innovation management activities include primarily knowledge and technology transfer services, supplemented by its consulting experience related to intellectual property rights. They create a bridge between science and the business world in Europe by exploring commercialization opportunities following the successful closure of the project (e.g. establishing spin-off company, technology transfer).
Italy
Intertek – For more than 130 years, companies around the world have depended on Intertek to help ensure the quality and safety of their products, processes and systems.
They go beyond testing, inspecting and certifying products; they provide Total Quality Assurance to industries worldwide. Through their global network of state-of-the-art facilities and industry-leading technical expertise they provide innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification services to customers. They support their customers’ Quality Assurance efforts in each of the areas of their operations including R&D, raw materials sourcing, components suppliers, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and retail channels, and consumer management.
Intertek is an industry leader with more than 42,000 employees in 1,000 locations in over 100 countries.
Intertek Iberica Spain SA (Intertek Spain) and Intertek Belgium (Intertek BE) are linked as third party of Intertek Italia.
Macedonia
PrymApps was founded in October 2013 and actively working from April 2014. We are engaged in development of web and cloud-based products and solutions.
The founders of PrymApps have strong technical and business background, with 14 to 22 years of experience in the IT industry, working for companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Deloitte, National Bank of Macedonia, Halkbank, Assecco etc. PrymApps aim to produce crowd powered business cloud applications with the motto “App in the cloud, feet on the ground”.
Netherlands
Wageningen University & Research is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation. ‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’ is the mission of Wageningen University & Research. A staff of 6,500 and 10,000 students from over 100 countries work everywhere around the world in the domain of healthy food and living environment for governments and the business community-at-large. The strength of Wageningen University & Research lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes and the university. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences.
This union of expertise leads to scientific breakthroughs that can quickly be put into practice and be incorporated into education.
The Marketing and Consumer Behavior Group of Wageningen University has a combined focus on consumer behavior (understanding what consumers need and want, and how they make decisions) and on marketing strategy (designing strategies and new product/services to best serve those consumer needs).
Portugal
BIOTREND is a research-based SME focused on the development, optimization, de-risking and scale-up of bioprocesses. They are experienced in working with a wide range of microorganisms, often non conventional, and renewable resources, including by-products of existing industries. Biotrend supports a range of partners, from start-ups to multinational corporations exploring opportunities of biotechnology and of the use of renewable raw materials, including by-products and wastes, in deploying new products in diversified markets in the food, feed, cosmetic, crop-protection, pulp and paper, enzyme and chemical industries..
The INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory), located in Braga (North of Portugal) was founded, in 2005, by the governments of Portugal and Spain under an international legal framework to perform interdisciplinary research, deploy and articulate nanotechnology for the benefit of society. INL aims to become the world-wide hub for nanotechnology addressing society’s grand challenges.
The INL research program comprises four strategic fields of application of nanoscience and nanotechnology:
- Safety in Environmental and Food Control, Nanotechnology applied to Food Industry, Food Safety and Environmental Control: Food Process Control, Smart Packaging and Labels, Biosensing Technologies, Water and Soil Control, Lab-on-a-chip Technologies, Air Pollution Monitoring.
- ICT (Nanoelectronics): NEMS/MEMS, Spintronics, Photonics, Micro and Nanofluidics, Integration of New Technologies on CMOS. Development of support platforms for the environmental and food control, energy and health areas.
- Energy: Solar Cells, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Energy Harvesting Micro and Nano – systems.
- V Health: Point-of-Care Diagnostics (lab on chip microsystems, microfluidic platforms), DNA, Protein and Cell chips, Biomolecular labels, Drug Delivery Solutions, Imaging, Neuroelectronics. http://inl.int/
Founded in 1977, Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/NOVA) is one of the most prestigious Portuguese public schools of science and engineering today, with a total enrolment of ca. 8000 students (Degree, MSc and PhD). The Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Nova.id.FCT) is a private non-profit initiative of the FCT/NOVA to promote and facilitate scientific research, technology and development services to society, and to organize qualified human resources training and consulting expertise and knowledge dissemination and technology transfer.
Nova.id.FCT acts as the legal front institution of research units, from different scientific fields, carrying out research work and managing financial and administratively R&D&I projects.
The Biochemical Engineering (BIOENG) group at FCT/NOVA is the participant research group and is devoted to develop high quality scientific research (both fundamental and applied) in the areas of Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology with main focus on: Wastewater Treatment Processes, Anaerobic Digestion, Micropollutants, Biological Nutrient Removal and Recovery; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Production and Characterization of olyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), Microbial Polysaccharides and Bulk Chemicals. The group has strong collaborations with industry and participated in more than 50 Projects, out of which in 14 European Projects (6 are on-going).
Sonae is a leader in the Portuguese retail market (food and non-food). Innovation in products and services has been the main tool to increase the company’s competitiveness. Sonae holds other businesses and interests such as retail properties, and core partnerships, such as shopping centres and telecommunications (one of Portugal’s biggest Telco companies). The retail business came a long way since the opening of the first hypermarket in 1985, changing along the way the consumer habits and starting a revolution in the commercial landscape in Portugal. Today Sonae owns hypermarkets & convenience supermarkets, electronics stores, fashion stores, cafeteria and restaurants, book shops & stationery, health & wellbeing stores. Sonae’s vision is “to create economic and social value in the long run, taking the benefits of progress and innovation to an ever increasing number of people”, that’s why the company sees innovation in the service of sustainability as a priority.
Modelo Continente Hipermercados S.A. (MCH) is linked as third party of Sonae.
The University of Minho, founded in 1973, is one of the called “new universities” in Portugal. The University of Minho is a research University, engaged in the valorization of the chain Knowledge-Research, Development and Innovation – as evidenced by a series of indicators. University of Minho team is constituted by members of both the Centre of Biological Engineering and the Institute of Polymers and Composites. CEB carries out research in various scientific domains, including food processes for more than 30 years. IPC mission is to contribute to the advancement of the science and technology of polymers and composites, helping to generate added-value in the Portuguese plastics and mould-making industries. Both centres have strong interaction with industrial partners, either local SMEs or international companies, specialized in the production and processing of
polymer materials and composites, the plastic packaging and food businesses.
Spain
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and technological progress. CSIC plays an important role in scientific and technological policy, since it encompasses an area that takes in everything from basic research to the transfer of knowledge to the productive sector.
Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (UJI) participates as a 3rd party in the project as in kind contribution against payment.
Bioinicia is an engineering company dedicated to the development and manufacture of nano and microstructured materials by electro-hydro dynamic processes (electrospinning & electrospraying) for our customers, and providing premium quality electrospinning equipment for laboratory to industrial-scale processing.
GAIKER-IK4 Technological Centre, located in the Technological Park of Bizkaia (Spain), is devoted to the up-take of own knowledge and to the development of new technologies that are later transferred to customers coming from sectors such as the Pharmaceutical Industry, Chemical Industry, Human and Animal Health, Engineering and Consultancy Firms, Public Administrations, Automotive Industries, Construction, Packing and Packaging, and Home Appliances, amongst others.
From 1985, the Centre has carried out close to 1.900 R+D Projects related to its Knowledge Areas: Biotechnology, Environment and Recycling and Plastics and Composites. Besides its activity in R+D, GAIKER-IK4 offers to its customers Advanced Technological Services, Analysis and Tests and Technological Dissemination Services.
Tecnopackaging is a technology-based company developing innovative plastic materials and products, mainly packages and nanocomposites. It offers customised solutions, targeting companies in the agri-food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and industrial sectors. Thanks to its know-how on advanced polymeric materials and their transformation processes, Tecnopackaging provides its customers with a comprehensive design of new products, from concept to prototype, validation and development of the first series. The core of the company is the development of new nanoadditivated, biodegradable and/or antimicrobial materials with technological equipment for processing plastics, including extrusion-compounding, injection, extrusion blow moulding, thermoforming and film-blowing.
TUTTI PASTA is the leading company in Spain for deep-frozen pasta with sauce dishes, and a reference within the pre-cooked, 5th range market. Originally focused on the development of ready-made Italian pasta dishes, the catalog now includes all types of recipes based on pasta, rice, meat, fish, vegetables, legumes, and potatoes. TUTTI PASTA strategy is follow growing in business volume, thanks to the diversification of pre-cooked frozen dishes references, more beyond of traditional products of pasta and rice, positioning in the market as a provider of integral deep-frozen gastronomic solutions (first and seconds dishes and desserts) of high quality organoleptic to price competitive, thanks to the use of high quality ingredients and to the automation of their processes.
Founded in 1942 in Reus, UNIÓ CORPORACIÓ ALIMENTÀRIA is a company with extensive experience in the oil, wine, nuts and fresh fruit sectors.
UNIO is a second tier Cooperative that brings together the production of more than 20,000 producer members, consisting of 90 local cooperatives associated with Unió, which are mainly concentrated in the different areas of Tarragona, as well as in the province of Lleida, in certain areas of Aragon, in the Valencian Community and in the Balearic Islands.
Our commitment to the region, the environment and the collaboration with associated cooperatives,
Enables UNIO to offer markets high quality natural products. At UNIO, continuous innovation, efficiency and the business reliability of the organization are complimented by achieving the satisfaction of our customers.
Turkey
As the pioneer of organized retailing in Turkey, Migros offers spacious stores in a wide range of formats and locations whose vast selection of cosmetics, stationery, glass and kitchenware, electronic appliances, book, textiles, and other items along with groceries and other necessities give it the ability to satisfy the shopping needs of its customers.
Striving to give customers the benefit of technological developments while confidently continuing to serve them with its trusted human resources, the attention which the Migros gives to information technology and the investments which it undertakes always keep them at the forefront of the retailing sector.
United Kingdom
KPAD Ltd. was established in 2014 and demonstrates expert knowledge in simulation and integration of state-of-the-art industrial processes, product development and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of products and services for energy and resource saving and sustainable development.
The area of expertise of KPAD Ltd can be summarized in:
- Application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental management, Resource minimization and water and energy saving
- Estimation of CO2 footprint of food products and environmental assessment through product design
- Sustainable product design and development for food industry
- Sustainable food processes design
- Experimental and applied study of the physical industrial processes such as extraction, drying, extrusion and novel processes
- Novel encapsulation processes. Application in packaging materials
- Development of mathematical models describing the physical processes and thermophysical properties of materials
- Design of the physical industrial processes in order to determine the operating conditions
- Determination of sensory analysis, shelf life tests and user’s acceptance, legislation issues KPAD Ltd. also works on the development of Good Agricultural
- Practices (GAP) toolkit, consisting of easy-to-use applications in order to provide convenient and portable solutions..
KPAD Ltd. also works on the development of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) toolkit, consisting of easy-to-use applications in order to provide convenient and portable solutions.
LINPAC (Klöckner Pentaplast) delivers the best packaging solutions to customers throughout the world in the retail, catering and food manufacturing and packing sectors.
Their fresh thinking ensures that their customers get the best quality, innovative and customised packaging products and services. As a result, LINPAC Packaging is a global player in the evolution of fresh food packaging, delivering lower levels of food waste, improved standards of hygiene and cleaner, more convenient solutions for all of our customers and their markets.
The Klöckner Pentaplast Group is a global leader in rigid and flexible packaging, printing and specialty solutions, serving the pharmaceutical, medical device, food, beverage and card markets, among others. With a broad portfolio of packaging, films and services powered by innovation, Klöckner Pentaplast plays an integral role in the customer value chain by marketing and safeguarding product integrity, assuring safety, consumer health and protecting brand reputation. Founded in 1965 in Montabaur, Germany, Klöckner Pentaplast has operations in 18 countries and employs over 6,300 people committed to serving customers worldwide from 61 total locations, including 35 production sites.
Israel
Melodea Ltd. is a pioneer and leader in the development of an economically viable industrial process for the production of CNC from wood pulp, side streams from the pulp and paper industry, and other sources. Melodea’s CNC propriety production process is simple, involving efficient chemical utilization, reduced water usage, fully chemical recycles, low energy consumption and minimized CAPEX. Melodea is a technology company and our mission is to license our intellectual property to users having the desire to incorporate CNC in their product or to resale CNC as an additive for end users.
At this point of time Melodea is increasing the production capacity both in Israel and abroad to meet market demands. Together with Holmen, MoRe Research and RISE we completed the building of the first CNC pilot plant in Sweden that will produce 100 kg/day of CNC. In parallel Melodea is increasing its local production in Israel to support the growing collaborations with the industry leading to constant increase in material demand.
In addition to CNC Production, Melodea is highly dedicated to product development. Melodea exploit CNC’s superb properties for the development of unique technologies based on CNC in a variety of applications and markets such as packaging, paint, paper, plastics and many more.
CSIC-IATA
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and technological progress. CSIC plays an important role in scientific and technological policy, since it encompasses an area that takes in everything from basic research to the transfer of knowledge to the productive sector.
Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (UJI) participates as a 3rd party in the project as in kind contribution against payment.
Avecom N.V.
Avecom is an innovative company with a main focus on steering and optimizing microbial processes. Together with their partners, they develop and produce bioproducts & applications for and from bacteria, produce high quality feed- and foodstuff and exploit microbial insights Europe.
BIOINICIA
Bioinicia is an engineering company dedicated to the development and manufacture of nano and microstructured materials by electro-hydro dynamic processes (electrospinning & electrospraying) for our customers, and providing premium quality electrospinning equipment for laboratory to industrial-scale processing.
BIOTREND
BIOTREND is a research-based SME focused on the development, optimization, de-risking and scale-up of bioprocesses. They are experienced in working with a wide range of microorganisms, often non conventional, and renewable resources, including by-products of existing industries. Biotrend supports a range of partners, from start-ups to multinational corporations exploring opportunities of biotechnology and of the use of renewable raw materials, including by-products and wastes, in deploying new products in diversified markets in the food, feed, cosmetic, crop-protection, pulp and paper, enzyme and chemical industries.
EUFIC
EUFIC, European Food Information Council, is a non-profit organization that offers accessible, appealing and actionable science-based information on food and health – to inspire and empower both the general public and health professionals.
EUFIC has extensive expertise in translating and tailoring scientific results into digestible materials. Versatile audio-visual materials are produced to satisfy the needs of different audiences, from simple infographics explaining basic food and health concepts, to thorough reviews of scientific literature. EUFIC’s communication tools and networks then ensure a broad and effective dissemination.
GAIKER
GAIKER-IK4 Technological Centre, located in the Technological Park of Bizkaia (Spain), is devoted to the up-take of own knowledge and to the development of new technologies that are later transferred to customers coming from sectors such as the Pharmaceutical Industry, Chemical Industry, Human and Animal Health, Engineering and Consultancy Firms, Public Administrations, Automotive Industries, Construction, Packing and Packaging, and Home Appliances, amongst others.
From 1985, the Centre has carried out close to 1.900 R+D Projects related to its Knowledge Areas: Biotechnology, Environment and Recycling and Plastics and Composites. Besides its activity in R+D, GAIKER-IK4 offers to its customers Advanced Technological Services, Analysis and Tests and Technological Dissemination Services.
LIN INL
The INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory), located in Braga (North of Portugal) was founded, in 2005, by the governments of Portugal and Spain under an international legal framework to perform interdisciplinary research, deploy and articulate nanotechnology for the benefit of society. INL aims to become the world-wide hub for nanotechnology addressing society’s grand challenges.
The INL research program comprises four strategic fields of application of nanoscience and nanotechnology:
- Safety in Environmental and Food Control, Nanotechnology applied to Food Industry, Food Safety and Environmental Control: Food Process Control, Smart Packaging and Labels, Biosensing Technologies, Water and Soil Control, Lab-on-a-chip Technologies, Air Pollution Monitoring.
- ICT (Nanoelectronics): NEMS/MEMS, Spintronics, Photonics, Micro and Nanofluidics, Integration of New Technologies on CMOS. Development of support platforms for the environmental and food control, energy and health areas.
- Energy: Solar Cells, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Energy Harvesting Micro and Nano – systems.
- V Health: Point-of-Care Diagnostics (lab on chip microsystems, microfluidic platforms), DNA, Protein and Cell chips, Biomolecular labels, Drug Delivery Solutions, Imaging, Neuroelectronics. http://inl.int/
Intertek Italia
Intertek – For more than 130 years, companies around the world have depended on Intertek to help ensure the quality and safety of their products, processes and systems.
They go beyond testing, inspecting and certifying products; they provide Total Quality Assurance to industries worldwide. Through their global network of state-of-the-art facilities and industry-leading technical expertise they provide innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification services to customers. They support their customers’ Quality Assurance efforts in each of the areas of their operations including R&D, raw materials sourcing, components suppliers, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and retail channels, and consumer management.
Intertek is an industry leader with more than 42,000 employees in 1,000 locations in over 100 countries.
Intertek Iberica Spain SA (Intertek Spain) and Intertek Belgium (Intertek BE) are linked as third party of Intertek Italia.
KPAD Ltd.
KPAD Ltd. was established in 2014 and demonstrates expert knowledge in simulation and integration of state-of-the-art industrial processes, product development and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of products and services for energy and resource saving and sustainable development.
The area of expertise of KPAD Ltd can be summarized in:
- Application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental management, Resource minimization and water and energy saving
- Estimation of CO2 footprint of food products and environmental assessment through product design
- Sustainable product design and development for food industry
- Sustainable food processes design
- Experimental and applied study of the physical industrial processes such as extraction, drying, extrusion and novel processes
- Novel encapsulation processes. Application in packaging materials
- Development of mathematical models describing the physical processes and thermophysical properties of materials
- Design of the physical industrial processes in order to determine the operating conditions
- Determination of sensory analysis, shelf life tests and user’s acceptance, legislation issues KPAD Ltd. also works on the development of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) toolkit, consisting of easy-to-use applications in order to provide convenient and portable solutions..
KPAD Ltd. also works on the development of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) toolkit, consisting of easy-to-use applications in order to provide convenient and portable solutions.
LC INNOCONSULT
LC Innoconsult (Laser Consult Ltd.) is an international innovation management consulting company (SME) which was established in 1992 with the objective of servicing its clients from the innovation idea all the way to commercialising intellectual products by providing complex innovation services. The company’s innovation management activities include primarily knowledge and technology transfer services, supplemented by its consulting experience related to intellectual property rights. They create a bridge between science and the business world in Europe by exploring commercialization opportunities following the successful closure of the project (e.g. establishing spin-off company, technology transfer).
LINPAC (Klöckner Pentaplast)
LINPAC (Klöckner Pentaplast) delivers the best packaging solutions to customers throughout the world in the retail, catering and food manufacturing and packing sectors.
Their fresh thinking ensures that their customers get the best quality, innovative and customised packaging products and services. As a result, LINPAC Packaging is a global player in the evolution of fresh food packaging, delivering lower levels of food waste, improved standards of hygiene and cleaner, more convenient solutions for all of our customers and their markets.
The Klöckner Pentaplast Group is a global leader in rigid and flexible packaging, printing and specialty solutions, serving the pharmaceutical, medical device, food, beverage and card markets, among others. With a broad portfolio of packaging, films and services powered by innovation, Klöckner Pentaplast plays an integral role in the customer value chain by marketing and safeguarding product integrity, assuring safety, consumer health and protecting brand reputation. Founded in 1965 in Montabaur, Germany, Klöckner Pentaplast has operations in 18 countries and employs over 6,300 people committed to serving customers worldwide from 61 total locations, including 35 production sites.
Melodea
Melodea Ltd. is a pioneer and leader in the development of an economically viable industrial process for the production of CNC from wood pulp, side streams from the pulp and paper industry, and other sources. Melodea’s CNC propriety production process is simple, involving efficient chemical utilization, reduced water usage, fully chemical recycles, low energy consumption and minimized CAPEX. Melodea is a technology company and our mission is to license our intellectual property to users having the desire to incorporate CNC in their product or to resale CNC as an additive for end users.
At this point of time Melodea is increasing the production capacity both in Israel and abroad to meet market demands. Together with Holmen, MoRe Research and RISE we completed the building of the first CNC pilot plant in Sweden that will produce 100 kg/day of CNC. In parallel Melodea is increasing its local production in Israel to support the growing collaborations with the industry leading to constant increase in material demand.
In addition to CNC Production, Melodea is highly dedicated to product development. Melodea exploit CNC’s superb properties for the development of unique technologies based on CNC in a variety of applications and markets such as packaging, paint, paper, plastics and many more.
MIGROS
Migros – As the pioneer of organized retailing in Turkey, Migros offers spacious stores in a wide range of formats and locations whose vast selection of cosmetics, stationery, glass and kitchenware, electronic appliances, book, textiles, and other items along with groceries and other necessities give it the ability to satisfy the shopping needs of its customers.
Striving to give customers the benefit of technological developments while confidently continuing to serve them with its trusted human resources, the attention which the Migros gives to information technology and the investments which it undertakes always keep them at the forefront of the retailing sector.
Focusing on customer expectations since the day it was founded, Migros is known for its innovation and progress in retailing.
NOVA ID
Founded in 1977, Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/NOVA) is one of the most prestigious Portuguese public schools of science and engineering today, with a total enrolment of ca. 8000 students (Degree, MSc and PhD). The Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Nova.id.FCT) is a private non-profit initiative of the FCT/NOVA to promote and facilitate scientific research, technology and development services to society, and to organize qualified human resources training and consulting expertise and knowledge dissemination and technology transfer.
Nova.id.FCT acts as the legal front institution of research units, from different scientific fields, carrying out research work and managing financial and administratively R&D&I projects.
The Biochemical Engineering (BIOENG) group at FCT/NOVA is the participant research group and is devoted to develop high quality scientific research (both fundamental and applied) in the areas of Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology with main focus on: Wastewater Treatment Processes, Anaerobic Digestion, Micropollutants, Biological Nutrient Removal and Recovery; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Production and Characterization of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), Microbial Polysaccharides and Bulk Chemicals. The group has strong collaborations with industry and participated in more than 50 Projects, out of which in 14 European Projects (6 are on-going).
PRYMAPPS
PrymApps was founded in October 2013 and actively working from April 2014. We are engaged in development of web and cloud-based products and solutions.
The founders of PrymApps have strong technical and business background, with 14 to 22 years of experience in the IT industry, working for companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Deloitte, National Bank of Macedonia, Halkbank, Assecco etc. PrymApps aim to produce crowd powered business cloud applications with the motto “App in the cloud, feet on the ground”.
SONAE
Sonae is a leader in the Portuguese retail market (food and non-food). Innovation in products and services has been the main tool to increase the company’s competitiveness. Sonae holds other businesses and interests such as retail properties, and core partnerships, such as shopping centres and telecommunications (one of Portugal’s biggest Telco companies). The retail business came a long way since the opening of the first hypermarket in 1985, changing along the way the consumer habits and starting a revolution in the commercial landscape in Portugal. Today Sonae owns hypermarkets & convenience supermarkets, electronics stores, fashion stores, cafeteria and restaurants, book shops & stationery, health & wellbeing stores. Sonae’s vision is “to create economic and social value in the long run, taking the benefits of progress and innovation to an ever increasing number of people”, that’s why the company sees innovation in the service of sustainability as a priority.
Modelo Continente Hipermercados S.A. (MCH) is linked as third party of Sonae.
TECNOPACKAGING
Tecnopackaging is a technology-based company developing innovative plastic materials and products, mainly packages and nanocomposites. It offers customised solutions, targeting companies in the agri-food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and industrial sectors. Thanks to its know-how on advanced polymeric materials and their transformation processes, Tecnopackaging provides its customers with a comprehensive design of new products, from concept to prototype, validation and development of the first series. The core of the company is the development of new nanoadditivated, biodegradable and/or antimicrobial materials with technological equipment for processing plastics, including extrusion-compounding, injection, extrusion blow moulding, thermoforming and film-blowing.
TUTTI PASTA
TUTTI PASTA is the leading company in Spain for deep-frozen pasta with sauce dishes, and a reference within the pre-cooked, 5th range market. Originally focused on the development of ready-made Italian pasta dishes, the catalog now includes all types of recipes based on pasta, rice, meat, fish, vegetables, legumes, and potatoes. TUTTI PASTA strategy is follow growing in business volume, thanks to the diversification of pre-cooked frozen dishes references, more beyond of traditional products of pasta and rice, positioning in the market as a provider of integral deep-frozen gastronomic solutions (first and seconds dishes and desserts) of high quality organoleptic to price competitive, thanks to the use of high quality ingredients and to the automation of their processes.
UMINHO
The University of Minho, founded in 1973, is one of the called “new universities” in Portugal. The University of Minho is a research University, engaged in the valorization of the chain Knowledge-Research, Development and Innovation – as evidenced by a series of indicators. University of Minho team is constituted by members of both the Centre of Biological Engineering and the Institute of Polymers and Composites. CEB carries out research in various scientific domains, including food processes for more than 30 years. IPC mission is to contribute to the advancement of the science and technology of polymers and composites, helping to generate added-value in the Portuguese plastics and mould-making industries. Both centres have strong interaction with industrial partners, either local SMEs or international companies, specialized in the production and processing of
polymer materials and composites, the plastic packaging and food businesses.
UNIO
Founded in 1942 in Reus, UNIÓ CORPORACIÓ ALIMENTÀRIA is a company with extensive experience in the oil, wine, nuts and fresh fruit sectors.
UNIO is a second tier Cooperative that brings together the production of more than 20,000 producer members, consisting of 90 local cooperatives associated with Unió, which are mainly concentrated in the different areas of Tarragona, as well as in the province of Lleida, in certain areas of Aragon, in the Valencian Community and in the Balearic Islands.
Our commitment to the region, the environment and the collaboration with associated cooperatives,
Enables UNIO to offer markets high quality natural products. At UNIO, continuous innovation, efficiency and the business reliability of the organization are complimented by achieving the satisfaction of our customers.
WUR
Wageningen University & Research is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation. ‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’ is the mission of Wageningen University & Research. A staff of 6,500 and 10,000 students from over 100 countries work everywhere around the world in the domain of healthy food and living environment for governments and the business community-at-large. The strength of Wageningen University & Research lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes and the university. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences.
This union of expertise leads to scientific breakthroughs that can quickly be put into practice and be incorporated into education.
The Marketing and Consumer Behavior Group of Wageningen University has a combined focus on consumer behavior (understanding what consumers need and want, and how they make decisions) and on marketing strategy (designing strategies and new product/services to best serve those consumer needs).