Plastics:

• Food Grade rPP and rPE
• PET Bottle Ultra-Light Weighting, beyond gram reduction and focusing on optimization
• Replacement for non-recyclable nylon barriers for PET bottles
• Replacement for plastic blister packaging
• Food contacts plastics made with >10% recycled content
• Biobased plastics, recyclable at scale
• Food Grade rPP and rPE: Utilizing recycled polypropylene (rPP) and recycled polyethylene (rPE) for food packaging under regulation approval
• PET Bottle Ultra-Light Weighting: Beyond simple weight reduction, focusing on optimization to minimize material usage by technology/process & material properties
• HDPE Bottle Ultra-Light Weighting: Beyond simple weight reduction, focusing on optimization to minimize material usage by technology/process & material properties

Fiber Packaging:

• Coating for dry molded fiber paperboard bottles that allows recycling and meets shelf-life quality standards
• Carton coating to extend secondary packaging shelf life without hindering recycling stream
• A multi-pack made of recycled paper or alternative fiber paper
• Reusable carton packaging – multicycle
• Forms that provide moisture and oxygen barrier. Must be compatible with fiber recycling
• Fiber Primary Packaging (Bottles, Pouches, Pods, etc.), that are recyclable/repulpable at scale, with lower CO2 footprint than existing primary packaging
• Coating for Fiber based packaging: Creating forms that provide either moisture – oxygen – gas – water barriers without impact on recyclability, minimizing no-paper fraction (ideally plastic free) meeting quality standards for shelf life. Can be applied by conventional coating technology or printing or spraying technology
• Palletization: Developing stretch paper fiber tertiary packaging for transport pallet as alternative to plastic

Cans (Aluminum/Steel):

• Returnable and refillable aluminum container
• Can of the future where lid and body are all made from the same alloy for 1-1 recycling and increased recycled content in can sheet
• Aluminum purification although these often take big investments; e.g., ALCOA ASTRAEA
• Aluminum Containers coating: a safe, neutral coating for natural water bottles. Prioritize traceability, hygiene, and eco-friendly materials to enhance quality and sustainability. BPA-Free coating

Glass Bottles:

• Anti-scuff coating for returnable bottles to help increase the bottle lifetime
• Decarbonated glass material: Glass containers (water & dairy) will have a positive impact on CO2 footprint by using new technology/process & material properties
• Anti-Scuff Coating for Returnable Bottles: Enhancing the durability of returnable glass bottles

Generic:

• Recycled/Recyclable secondary and tertiary packaging materials
• Sachet film technology to advance recyclability, biodegradability/compostability
• Shrink-wrap alternatives OR reusable secondary packaging/shrink OR new sustainable solutions for secondary packaging
• Pouches: Monolayer film for water (PET) & dairy products advancing recyclability and biodegradability/compostability
• Label Alternatives & Multi-Colors/High Contrast Solutions: Exploring label-free packaging options. Beyond traditional labeling, using technologies like direct digital printing and laser marking
• Alternatives to dairy pots: Technology allows low plastic & low carbon solution as an alternative to dairy classic pots

Palletization:

• Fiber Primary Packaging (Bottles, Pouches, Pods, etc.), that are recyclable/repulpable
• Improvements to enable the removal of plastic stretch film, while maintaining transportation quality (Corona Challenge)
• Scalable technology for bio-based and renewable materials
• eCommerce ready packaging to avoid overpacking and material waste to be made of majority recycled content
• Elimination or alternatives of labels on packaging
• Multi-colors/high contrast solutions without labeling beyond current Direct Digital Printing and laser marking technologies at comparable traditional labeling speed
• Use of novel packaging materials and technologies in various packaging categories (aluminum, steel, glass, paper, polymer, glue) that enable further light-weighting or reduced material use (e.g., glass strengthening technology that enables super light weighting)
• Biobased materials in substitution of fossil fuels-based packaging
• 100% plastic-free bag for the delivery segment
• Alternatives to disposable paper/plastic cups and multilayer pouches to ensure recyclability

• Novel ways to concentrate products including low water content forms that are reconstituted or used directly by consumers, CPG focus
• New product ideas involving re-fillable/replacement product that is stored or otherwise used with a permanent/durable container while addressing hygiene challenges for refillable
• Refillable Packaging for dilutable products from a concentrated form into reusable packaging (e.g., bottles), novel ways to ensure the consumer maintains a clean and sanitary environment

• Solutions to track packaging materials through the entire circular economy. Better tracking and reporting of recycled content across all materials.
• Visibility and traceability of input materials for packaging
• Reuse marketing materials in different points of sale, increase marketing materials traceability to know where and what we are using or storing and reduce, eliminate, reuse and/or recycle materials that are used to pack marketing materials
• Traceability of aluminum and glass across the value chain, from mine to remelt, enabling product passports
• Track and trace for the precise measurement of return rates for reusable bottles

• Marketplaces for upcycling co-products from CPG industry
• Processing technologies that turn our co-products into ingredients for various food applications
• Palm oil, tallow and other vegetable oil substitutes including waste food, spent grain, and other feedstocks - as use in surfactants for soap as well as food applications
• Low-cost sulfate free or natural surfactants technologies
• Natural, sustainable preservative technologies for food, personal and oral care products
• Processes and materials that incorporate co-products into sustainable packaging solutions
• Find a second life for all of our co-products through products that generate value to our consumers, especially for: spent coffee and tea leaves, seeds, peels, pulp, dry/wet yeast and brewers’ grain
• Biological / chemical process to extract valuable properties for skincare products, pharmaceutical products
• Stabilizing our brewers’ grains which, if not treated, has a very limited lifetime of 4-6 hours
• Solutions to make transportation economically viable; e.g., low-cost de-watering to reduce original moisture of 80% (brewers’ grain contains only 20%-40% dry matter)
• New foods and beverages derived from and linked to our co-products that enable healthier diets and address obesity and malnutrition
• Anaerobic digestion for brewers’ grain (ideally with cogeneration)
• Renewable or recycled carbon, non-fossil fuel derived carbon ingredients; e.g., surfactants for cleaning products, CO2 for carbonation
• Energy production from coproducts (BSY and BSG) through anaerobic digestion or other technologies
• New solutions to fuel/accelerate the fermentation process including alternative carbon or nitrogen sources
• Solutions to improve the functionality or nutritional profile of brewers’ spent grain or brewers’ spent yeast through fermentation
• Startups in the plant-based meat or dairy sector who are interested in testing/using novel ingredients derived from barley or yeast including proteins and fibers
• Bioplastics, composites or other packaging solutions derived from brewers’ spent grain
• Novel valorizations of brewing co-products for use in biochemicals, cosmetics, etc.
• Circularity of commercial coolers, 2nd life cooler technology
• Processing technologies that turn our co-products into (new) ingredients for various food applications (focus on dairy by-streams such as acid-whey, UF permeate, lactose streams, water + monovalent minerals)
• Find a second life for all of our co-products through products that generate value to our consumers (keeping food / health grade), especially for: spent coffee and tea leaves, seeds, peels, pulp, dry/wet yeast and brewers’ grain, dairy based by-streams from milk filtration and dairy product processes (such as acid-whey, UF permeate, lactose & lactose free streams, water + monovalent minerals)
• Startups in the plant-based meat or dairy sector who are interested in testing/using novel ingredients derived from barley or yeast including proteins and fibers
• Technologies or initiatives to valorize oat kara and/or soy okara to create nutritious ingredients for plant-based applications with higher focus fibers
• Tools to enable accurate real time visibility into DM and protein content of our BSG ( I think actually SCIO can be relevant for this)
• Opportunities to increase dry matter & / or protein content of BSG / BSY
• Technologies for efficient (lower energy consumption) to dry our BSG, BSY and Sludge
• New applications & valorization for BTS sludge, DE

• Renewable and biodegradable water soluble polymers with functionality for use in home care, personal care and cosmetics products
• New biodegradable platform and specialty chemicals from renewable sources for a range of applications
• New biodegradable chemicals and materials derived from marine biomass, targeting ingredient and materials applications in foods, home care, personal care and cosmetics products