Innovative in developing solutions to advance sustainable packaging solutions, Elif, hosted a technical trip to SusFoFlex Consortium in its benchmark factory located in Istanbul.
An EU project is aiming to use active packaging to improve barrier properties and intelligent packaging to give consumers more product quality information.
The SusFoFlex project (Smart and sustainable food packaging utilizing flexible printed intelligence and materials technologies) will develop sustainable and intelligent packaging aiming at improving the shelf life of food, monitoring the quality of packaged food, and communicating the information to the user. The project will produce PLA films improved in terms of barriers and smart functions by using natural additives, filler and nanomaterials (natural antioxidant extracts, cellulose-based bionanocomposite, nano-silicates, edible nanolaminate coatings).
The SusFoFlex Consortium, a three-year European Project under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) that focuses on the development of novel, sustainable, and intelligent food packaging solutions for enhanced shelf life, held its first annual technical meeting in November 2012 at Elif Plastik, a global supplier of flexible packging, based in Istanbul, Turkey.