Upcycling PHAs to innovative materials for fully sustainable food packaging
SATISPHACTION is a 4-year project awarded in 2025 with a budget of €3.7 million through the highly competitive EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Nature-inspired alternatives for food packaging and films for agriculture”. It focuses on developing next-generation, fully biodegradable PHA-based materials for food packaging that replace fossil-based plastics and promote circular economy.
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Objectives
- Develop innovative depolymerisation processes for PHA waste.
- Demonstrate the cost-efficient fabrication of PHA-based plastics with bespoke properties from recycled monomers.
- Develop fully biodegradable PHA formulations from recycled material and validate their application in 3 food packaging use cases.
- Prepare the exploitation of the results.
Latest News
The first meeting of the European consortium, held in AINIA, marks the beginning of a strategic collaboration to transform the food packaging sector with solutions based on the recycling of PHA.
Contact us
If you have any questions about our project, activities, or results, please feel free to contact us at satisphactioneu@gmail.com. We’ll be happy to assist you
Partners
The consortium blends the scientific and technical expertise provided by universities and R&D centres, and the support of innovative plastic companies, sustainability certification experts and packaging industry representatives. Altogether, 9 partners from 5 different European countries: France, UK, Belgium, Portugal and Spain are involved in the project.
Partners
EIC Pathfinder Portfolio
SATISPHACTION is one of the six projects awarded in the EIC Pathfinder Nature inspired alternatives for food packaging and films for agriculture challenge’.
