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Packaging Eco-Design and Recycling

UST’s Manager: Alain COCHAUX

Objectives
 

• To check the eco-design of paper & board packaging for better recovery at product end of life (European Packaging Directives).
• To develop innovative technological solutions in the manufacturing of paper & board packaging with a view for the sake of economic, environmental and societal recovery (finished product).
• To perpetuate paper and board packaging recycling.
• To be the interface of industrial sectors and other concerned partners (inter-USTs synergy and external partnerships).

Compétences

Optimisation of recycling lines (packaging recycling): improvement in paper-board mechanical characteristics, elimination of unwanted products.
Checking of the Conformity with the Exigences Essentielles des Directives Emballages.
Quality control of recovered papers & boards (link with UST n°10).
In collaboration with other USTs: suitability with food-contact, regulation and directive "packaging and packaging waste", energy and organic recovery (compostability), dry-sorting technology.

Activity

Companies producing packaging products are connected with powerful sectors such as the food-processing industry. Coditioning is a link in the chain which joins up the raw product to the end user, and thus it must meet a set of constraints of equal priority such as the major hygiene criteria, the preservation of products, resistance, cost, but it must also constitute an efficient communication vector and respect the environmental standards: holding the control of these essential requirements is a permanent challenge.
The European directive concerning packagings and packaging waste imposes the development of Packaging Household Collection and their recovery in order to reach high recovery rate. Thus, regulations encourage companies in adapting their products and in optimising packaging products while preserving all their performances (packaging reduction of volumes and weight). Regulations also recommend the use of eco-design methods.
The whole constraints should encourage each key-actor of the packaging sector to lead active research and to innovation. Research work is led for packaging weight reduction in particular in the field of light weight paper and in the quality control of raw materials.

Materials
 

• Laboratory Materials for characterising samples and papers (cleanliness, mechanical properties)
• Recycled Fibres Pilot equipment: " (pulpers, pressure screens, hydrocyclones, flotation cells, washer, thickness, rapid and slow kneading, bleaching, dissolved-air flotation) that can simulate most of paper & board packaging recycling lines.