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ATIP 2024 #CTP-Innovation #PRICEinSILVER
Published on : 11/27/2024
On November 21 and 22, 2024, and on live from the traditional ATIP-COPACEL Technical Days in Paris, Fabienne Vercelli, Christophe Callejon and Charles Chevrou met our customers on the CTP Stand.=
At the “Palmes de l'Innovation” competition, the CTP, represented by François Bru was once again awarded a handsome SILVER PALME! This competition, exclusively open to companies, suppliers, universities and research centres, is a great springboard for promoting paper technologies! A dozen companies competed this year, and the CTP was awarded the prize for its entry “A new industrial solution for products with ever more fibres”. These innovations are the result of the hard work of CTP teams with François Bru, Laurent Lyannaz, Claire Monot and Philippe Martinez from FUNPRO team, Eline Bartolami from APQUAL team and Pascal Borel from BEST Team... Well done to all of them, but also to all their colleagues in the five divisions and the support services who helped them win this wonderful award!This award once again highlights the quality of the Centre's innovative projects, and will certainly have a positive impact on the whole CTP!
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SUMMARY : "A new industrial solution with ever more fibre"
For years, the use of single-use food packaging has been democratized by its simplified application in everyday life, particularly in the take-away and event sectors. As a result, the volume of associated waste has also risen sharply, prompting the search for solutions to replace 100% plastic packaging. These measures were also prompted by increasingly restrictive regulations on the replacement of plastics.Multi-layer material solutions based on paper/cardboard are already on the market, with functional layers providing the barrier levels required by the food market. However, these functional layers are essentially composed of extruded plastics (PE/PET) and other polymers. However, these complexes are not always easy to recycle and therefore contribute to the accumulation of waste in landfill sites.
CTP has developed a solution combining the coating of polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) on paper/cardboard, followed by Chromatogeny grafting in order to produce a material with fat, oxygen and water barriers required for a wide range of applications. Furthermore, this material can be transformed and shaped using the « glueless bonding » technic developed at CTP, otherwise known as ultrasonic welding.
In the case of products such as cups, this solution makes it possible to obtain a material made up of 96% fibers, perfectly recyclable and home-compostable ! A great advance on current market solutions. During the year, the material resulting from PVOH coating + Chromatogeny grafting combination was approved on the BfR XXXVI positive list for its use in food packaging applications. This validation is the final springboard for large-scale industrial deployment of this innovative solution ! CTP will be supporting industrialists interested in this value-creating process every step of the way.
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