Tetra Pak works to develop the "package of the future"
Company has commenced research toward advancing fibre-based sustainable food packaging, in collaboration with MAX IV.
Tetra Pak has commenced research toward advancing fibre-based sustainable food packaging, in collaboration with MAX IV, the most modern synchrotron radiation laboratory in the world, the company stated. The research aims to uncover fresh insights into the nanostructure of fiber materials, with the first application to optimize the composition of materials used for paper straws.
This is the first industrial research and development experiment at ForMAX, a new research station dedicated to studying materials from the forest, located at the MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden.