Food Accelerator Network (FAN)

MarinaTex is developing new films and coatings derived from renewable, low carbon sources including seafood waste and algae that are compostable, effective, and food safe, whilst remaining recyclable in paper streams, designed as a planet conscious alternative to plastic packaging films and coatings.

Senoptica is a novel smart packaging sensor that will help to address the Global problem of fresh packaged food waste. The technology helps to identify failed packs and provides condition data into supply chain analytics to predict spoilage and extend shelf life.

Papkot is a coating that gives paper the same material performance as plastic – moisture, grease, fire or gas resistant and food-grade, whilst keeping the same end of life as plastic, completely recyclable and biodegradable.

Relicta Innovation of Packaging has developed a water-soluble, transparent and biodegradable bioplastic for packaging made from fish waste. This sustainable alternative to conventional plastics valorises waste and supports a circular economy.

MakeGrowLab converts food waste into SPM nanocellulose fibers, capable of producing paper materials that rival plastic in performance and offer sustainable food protective packaging options.

Blue Ocean Closures produces closures from highly pressed natural fibers that are biobased, biodegradable and recyclable as paper in a system that are fast, cost effective and scalable.

By upcycling food-industry streams, wastes and by-products Outlander Materials produces UnPlastic: a functional, compostabile, and non-plastic alternative to single-use packaging solutions.

With experience across food, environmental and biomedical sciences, AgriFoodX can help identify opportunities and sustainable solutions. The startup’s core activities include the production of materials for biodegradable and compostable bio-based packaging solutions. They are exploiting agri-food by-product derived fibre to produce lighter, stronger packaging.

ZeroImpack offers reusable packaging as a service, providing both physical and digital infrastructure, for leading food service operations in school canteens, university campuses, corporate offices,
progressive cities and more.

Pack2Earth develops robust biomaterials from plants & minerals to substitute contaminating plastic in packaging and more. The startup’s biobased flexible film and injection materials are robust, compostable at ambient temperature, organically recyclable and can be used to manufacture packaging and other items for long life dry to semiliquid products, as well as for some liquids.