EU RESEARCH PROJECT MANIPULATES NANOCLAY TO PRODUCE NEW BIO-PACKAGING
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITISH supermarket chain Sainsbury and Dublin-based packaging manufacturing multinational Smurfit-Kappa are working with European Union (EU) researchers to develop a new recyclable and biodegradeable biopolymer food packaging. The EU SUSTAINPACK project consortium is incorporating nano-clay particles within the packaging material, with the aim of replacing materials based on petrochemical polymers. Professor Chris Breen of Sheffield Hallam University, a member of the EU SUSTAINPACK project, said his team was incorporating tiny nano-clay particles ...
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