Sustainable Functional Coatings for Monomaterial Cellulosic Packaging

This episode is all about the future of food packaging and functional coatings. Our guests are Jesús Palenzuela from the Spanish technology centre ITENE and Mireille Poelman, coordinator of the EU Horizon project Bio-SUSHY. Together, they shed light on the challenges involved in the transition to fibre-based monomaterials, regulatory hurdles such as the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), and the phase-out of PFAS. Find out how modern plasma and dry powder coating technologies, the 'Safe and Sustainable by Design' (SSbD) concept and computer-aided simulations are paving the way for sustainable, recyclable barrier coatings for food packaging.