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India as selected territory for potential collaborations with third countries

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India is the selected FoodPackLab territory for potential collaborations with third countries . The starting point was a preliminary analysis by the FoodPackLab consortium that led to 3 preselected territories: South Korea, Turkey and India . In terms of the market size, South Korea was by far the most important territory, its value being 1.5 times higher than the ones in Turkey and India. However, the consortium decided to choose the most promising territory – India , according to several criteria, one of the most important being the information provided by the SMEs from the 5 networks with respect to the...
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  • Sep 08, 2019
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FoodPackLab Collaborating Cluster: Welcome Pack4Food!

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We are happy to officially present the second out of three chosen collaborating partners for FoodPackLab: Pack4Food . As a collaboration platform between industrial stakeholders in food packaging and research institutes with broad expertise in food packaging, Pack4Food fits in perfectly as collaborating partnert in the FoodPackLab project. It was founded in 2005 as a spin off company of the University of Ghent and is based in Flanders (Belgium). Since 2011, Pack4Food became independent as a non-profit organization. Pack4Food is coordinating different research projects in Flanders concerning optimal barrier...
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  • Sep 08, 2019
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FoodPackLab Collaborating Cluster: Welcome VIFU!

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We are happy to officially present one of the three chosen collaborating partners for FoodPackLab: The Danish Knowledge Centre for Food Innovation , called VIFU . Focusing on food, food development and food innovation, VIFU is an ideal collaborating partner for the project. Within this line of business, they help to create growth and development by forming unconventional alliances and combining knowledge from research with experience from the food industry and thereby achieve results that everyone can benefit from. Therefore, FoodPackLab’s cross-sectoral approach between the food, packaging and photonics...
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  • Sep 08, 2019
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Inter-Cluster Meetings in Berlin-Brandenburg

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Berlin , Germany’s capital, brings together history and innovation in a special way. Last week, secpho, coordinator of the FoodPackLab project, participated in several inter-cluster meetings , discovering the versatile faces of Berlin and its neighbour region Brandenburg by visiting other clusters from the photonics and food industry, to raise awareness about the FoodPackLab project . secpho’s Berlin-Brandenburg tour started at Adlershof , the largest science and technology park in Germany . Frank Lerch, M anager of the Optics and Photonics Cluster...
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  • Sep 03, 2019
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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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