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Innovation Event on New Technologies in Agriculture & Food Industry in Barcelona

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In the mid of may, secpho had the pleasure to organize the last event of the European Photonics Roadshows in Barcelona. This unique Innovation Event was dedicated to New Technologies in Agriculture & Food Industry and attracted more than 70 international participants from Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the U K. These two days on innovation in plant production, animal production, environment, and food processing, were a result of collaboration between two European projects, EPRISE (H2020, aiming to empower photonic SMEs in four Life Science sectors: health, food,...
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  • Jul 13, 2019
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Electro Optics Article about FoodPackLab

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The Electro Optics Magazine , a leading resource for engineers involved in photonics business, technology and applications, has published an article about the FoodPackLab initiative on how the use of photonics to reduce food waste and increase its safety . Click here to read more .
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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Photonics for Agrofood Event in Amsterdam

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Two partners of the FoodPackLab Consortium, the Packaging Cluster and secpho , participated in the event of the European Photonics Roadshow Series , that has been held in Amsterdam on the 14th and 15th of February. The event was entitled “ Photonics for agrofood ”, dealing with new applications of photonics in the field of agriculture and food processing in order to answer the following question: How to feed 9 billion people in 2050? This roadshow, organised by the EPRISE project , aimed to provide SMEs with solutions on how to overcome the market barriers and to boost collaboration in Europe via pre-...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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International Food & Photonics Events in 2019

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2019 – Overview international food & photonics events Find out more about international events related to the food & photonics sector overview international events 2019
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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Market Insights about the Packaging Sector

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The food industry needs to focus on innovation in the following key areas: – Food Processing – Increasing hygiene and food security – Reducing food waste – Enhancing the information received by the consumer, especially regarding labelling Among the above listed key aspects, both photonics and packaging have a huge potential . In fact, packaging is one of the steps of the food value chain and therefore a cross-sectorial approach is recommended to integrate solutions from other sectors, such as packaging and photonics. Thus, solutions will have a major range of innovation in the food industry. Furthermore,...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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LIGHT 003! Magazine by secpho - Photonics revolutionise the food industry

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Food & Photonic technologies – In order to ensure a high level of international competitiveness, a steady growth in production, an increase in EU exports as well as a rising number of direct jobs, the food sector is facing major technological challenges by safeguarding the following three aspects: quality, safety and productivity . In this context, photonic technologies offer a wide range of innovative solutions – light control enables us to monitor the composition and the quality of food. Moreover it allows us to control the whole production process, rise crop yields, optimize packaging and bottling...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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FoodPackLab Pilot Event in Barcelona

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On 18 December 2018, the FoodPackLab coordinator secpho collaborated with the Cluster Foodservice , organizing an innovation workshop about how to apply photonics technologies in the food industry . The event was hosted by the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) . The objective of the event was the identification of technological solutions to challenges in the field of food that can be addressed through collaborative innovation projects. More than fifty key agents in the innovation of the food industry and experts in photonic technologies gathered on this day, including: AINIA, ALBA SYNCHROTRON, AUDENS...
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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FoodPackLab Event in Hannover

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FoodPackLab Event in Hannover On 29 January 2019, the first FoodPackLab Innovation Workshop took place in Hannover. The Event was hosted by the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and adressed challenges in the field of food processing, foodsafty & packaging. Along with the consortium members of FoodPackLab, additional companies operating in the photonics-, research- and packaging-industry from Spain, France and Germany attended the workshop. After the registration, the participants were welcomed by one of the consortium members, Norbert Reichl, Managing Director of Food-Processing Initiative e.V....
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  • Apr 23, 2019
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Photonics technologies are revolutionizing the food industry

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Have a look at our introduction video about the FoodBackLab programme in order to understand how photonics technologies revolutionanize the food industry by addressing food processing and packaging challenges of companies . Are you facing any challenges in the food industry, but still have difficulties in imagining how this might work? Then join our cross-sectorial innovation workshops starting in Hannover on the 29th of January , followed by the upcoming events in France (spring 2019) and Barcelona (october 2019) . The goal of these workshops is to foster collaborative projects at an international level,...
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  • Jan 28, 2019
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