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The project BIOVEGE, in which AIMPLAS participates, has resulted in new biodegradable films and nets for horticultural products and food colourants and additives from waste coming from products harvested in the field of Almería.
The project MIPLASCOE, framed within the call Innterconecta, seeks to recover the wastes generated in the orange juice sector productive activity through the extraction of different monomers by microbial fermentation and synthesis of biopolyesters.
AIMPLAS has started the project NEMOSINE, which will allow to protect visual and sound memories produced between 1895 and 1970 that are now at risk due to the instability of the formats that were used in its registration.
The project Bio+, in which companies manufacturing single-use products, led by the bag manufacturer PICDA and coordinated by AIMPLAS, in collaboration with other centres and universities, will allow to develop customised compostable materials.
The LIFE RECYPACK project will implement a new public-private waste management project for commercial plastic packages in line with the circular economy criteria.
Plásticos Romero, in collaboration with AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is working on a project to tackle, from a sustainable point of view, the production of manufactured packages from complex structures.
The project MIPLASCOE aims to produce biopolyesters by using fermentation from wastes of the orange juice industry for the manufacturing of elements for the rail industry and bottles to package the juice itself
AIMPLAS takes part in the project CLIPP+, led by the British firm SKYMARK, whose objective is to achieve a new technology to recycle printed films and remove odours and contaminant substances.
Technological innovation is the key to provide a personalised and functional response to convenience or comfort criteria that prevail in the purchase decision of the final consumer.
