The technology center Itene will present printed electronic solutions to improve the functionality of packaging at the LOPEC 2023 fair, which will be held between March 23 and 24 in Munich (Germany).
Itene will present conductive and functional inks that offer a wide range of applications and sustainable biobased inks under development to improve the environmental impact of containers.
Specifically, developments of printed electronics for containers such as NFC-powered sensors that, through a mobile application, allow information on different indicators, such as temperature and humidity, to be obtained.
These developments were created in the European LEE-BED project, financed by the Horizon 2020 program, by the technology center together with the Spanish label company GRAFIETIC with the aim of monitoring the temperature and humidity variable and ensuring the correct operation of a printer. . They can be applied in the packaging intended for different sectors, such as pharmacist, the e-commerce and eatingas well as to improve the traceability of goods, facilitating stock control or product location, among other purposes.
At the fair, ITENE will also present functional inks, among them a microwaveable susceptor ink for products such as snacks and V-range foods. Based on compounds that favor the heating of food and with a monolayer and more sustainable development, this ink is based on a paper substrate that replaces aluminized PET. In addition to paper, it can be applied to other substrates for bakery products or microwaveable pizzas.
The technological center will also present its services scaled for printed electronics and which include a pilot plant through which, by means of screen printing, flexography or ink jet, companies can transform their ideas into prototypes for subsequent validation.
Additionally, Itene will publicize the research it carries out to reduce the environmental impact of printed electronics through the development of new sustainable inks that allow the reduction of the use of materials obtained from non-renewable sources. Specifically, it will present new biobased conductive inks that can be separated from the support on which they are printed and that is developed in the European R&D project ECOTRON, financed by the Horizon Europe program.
