Two new info packs present the first steps of the ViSS value chain
The ViSS project has released two new info packs presenting the first stages of the value chain towards sustainable bio-based packaging.
Funded by the European Union, ViSS is developing innovative packaging solutions based on PHBV, a biodegradable biopolymer produced from industrial residues. The two info packs offer a clear overview of how waste streams can be transformed into valuable materials through circular and safe processes.
To make the ViSS approach easier to understand, ViSS project’s partners developed new materials, translating complex research into a more accessible visual format. Aimed at stakeholders across the bioeconomy value chain, from researchers and industry representatives to innovation actors and wider non-specialist audiences, the info packs explain how organic side streams from the food industry can become a valuable resource for new packaging solutions, and how material formulation can help overcome some of the main processing and performance limitations of bioplastics.
The info packs help make the ViSS approach more tangible, showing how different steps in the process contribute to building a circular packaging solution. From preparing alternative feedstocks for fermentation to identifying safe additives that improve processing and material behaviour, they offer a practical overview of the work being carried out in the project.
The first info pack, From food industry to fermentation focuses on the early steps of the value chain, from food industry residues to fermentation processes. It explains how sugar-rich effluents and poultry by-products are conditioned and used as feedstock for the microbial production of PHBV, turning industrial side streams into a resource for sustainable packaging.
The second info pack looks at PHBV formulation and compounding. It highlights how the project is improving the polymer’s processability and material performance through safe and sustainable additives, combining computational modelling with experimental validation.
Together, the two info packs show how ViSS is building a circular approach that starts from residue valorisation and moves towards the development of high-performance bio-based packaging materials.