Growing demand for sustainable production, increasing competition and consideration of health concerns have led the meat industries on a path to innovation. Meat industries across the world are focusing on the development of novel meat products and processes to meet consumer demand. Hence, a process innovation, like nanotechnology, can have a significant impact on the meat processing industry t...

Within the framework of the European project EcoBioCap (ECOefficient BIOdegradable Composite Advanced Packaging), aiming at conceiving the next generation of food packagings, we introduce an argumentation-based tool for management of conflicting viewpoints between preferences expressed by the involved parties (food and packaging industries, health and waste management authorities, consumers, et...

Synthetic polymers are very widely used today, with diverse applications in various industries such as food, automotive, and packaging. The quality of plastic products depends on the quality of the polymers or polymer blends used during manufacturing, so identity verification and quality testing of those materials during every stage of manufacturing is necessary to ensure that only high-quality...

Within the framework of the European project EcoBioCap, we model a real world use case aiming at conceiving the next generation of food packagings. The objective is to select packaging materials according to possibly conflicting requirements expressed by the involved parties (food and packaging industries, health authorities, consumers, waste management authority, etc.). The requirements and us...

Bionanocomposite packaging materials have a bright future for a broad range of applications in the food and biomedical industries. Antimicrobial packaging is one of the bionanocomposite packaging materials. Silver nanoparticle (AgNP) is one of the most attractive antimicrobial agents for its broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity against microorganisms. However, the traditional method of prep...

The production and subsequent processing, packaging and distribution of food cannot be considered in isolation from the rest of the country's economy. The Input-Output Tables for the United Kingdom (Central Statistical Office, 1968) illustrate the complex interdependencies of all its industries and may indeed be used to quantify the importance of other industrial inputs in determining the outpu...

Shape memory alloy actuators are attractive for many industries because of their high energy density and moderate strokes and forces, which can enable low cost, light weight, high performance devices. SMA wire actuators are particularly advantageous because of their simple form, well-developed manufacturing and quality control, actuation with simple electrical circuits, and faster heating and c...

In this paper, we outline the process leading from technologies to successful products in the MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) and MST (Microsystems Technology) field. The development of new products involves a lot of factors, such as mature technologies, interdisciplinary team, identifying the right business potential and long term oriented investors. The paper summarizes a survey of diff...

Sterilization of packages prior to product filling is a key step in aseptic filling machines. Chemical sterilization is one of the main conventional techniques in many packaging industries. To monitor the effect of sterilization on test microorganisms (Bacillus atrophaeus spores), an impedimetric sensor approach was developed based on a planar interdigitated electrode (IDE) design. In this work...

nanotechnology in manufacturing of sensors with small dimensions, evaluate a lot of the parameters carefully. the applications of nanosensors include three important branch in nan biotechnology (medical, agricultural and food industries). nan osensors technology as a new science is a powerful substitution for conventional analytical techniques in the field of agricultural sciences. sensitivity ...