It left from Verona on D4Pack projectunder the guidance of Cevi Srl, a Confindustria Verona company and co-financed by the European program Interreg Central Europe, will have a budget of almost two million euros to be dedicated to the study of a method for
select the best packaging for food SMEs from a sustainability point of view.
The D4pack project is underway
The D4Pack project involves 8 partners from five European countries who will be committed to working together for two and a half years. In addition to Cevi Srl, a Confindustria Verona company, the project involves Lukasiewicz Research Network – Lódz Institute of Technology, Campden BRI Hungary Ltd, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia – Chamber of Agricultural and Food Enterprises, Krakow University of Economics, Innoskart Business Development Nonprofit Ltd, PROMA-PACK Ltd, Federation of the Food and Drink Industries of the Czech Republic.
“I am convinced this is a significant occasion. Being the leader of this European project is not only a source of pride but is also a great opportunity to actively contribute to the sustainable growth of businesses, for their competitiveness and for all of us thanks to the repercussions it could have”. She stated Raffaele Boscaini, President of Confindustria Verona.
D4pack, in fact, is a collective project which, thanks to the cooperation between the partners, who will each bring their own specific skills, will develop a tool to support the decision-making process of SMEs to introduce more sustainable packaging from an environmental and technical point of view into their processes. , economical and productive.
The new approach
A new approach Technology Transfer Services (TTS) will help agri-food SMEs to efficiently choose the most suitable packaging solution and carry out risk self-diagnosis.
This TTS, created through an integrated and multidisciplinary transnational network, is implemented through a business logic in which each decision-making phase (technical, legal, economic, environmental and social) is combined with a specific risk assessment framework for the transition to a new packaging.
In this way it will be possible to concretely help companies and stakeholders to fully seize every opportunity linked to change and to evaluate the real sustainability of the new packaging solutions in their production process.
