VTT Growth Lab on Resource Sufficiency, 27 Nov 2018, presentation by Anna Tenhunen, VTT

1. VTT Biobased Material
Solution
for Food Packaging
M.Sc(Tech) Anna Tenhunen
Research Scientist
@TenhunenAnna
#VTTGrowthLab

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4. Plastic
– a societal
necessity that
destroys the
environment
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5. Our solution looks like
plastic and performs like
plastic, but it is
100 % biobased and made
from nature’s
very own raw material
- cellulose

6. Awards
Winner of Circular Materials Challenge 2018, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Winner of EcoPack Challenge 2018, Packaging Innovation & Marks&Spencer
Winner of Biobased Packaging category of Sustainaility Awards 2018

7. Oxygen, gas &
grease barrier
3 layer barrier film structure
Thermoplastic cellulose
Thermoplastic cellulose
Nanocellulose film
Moisture &
water vapour
barrier
VTT Biobased Material Solution
RECYCLABLE
Processable
with
EXISTING
MACHINERY
100 %
BIOBASED

9. Thank you!
#VTTGrowthLab
#VTTbeyondtheobvious