We use cookies on our website. Some are necessary for the operation of the website. You can also allow cookies for statistical purposes. You can adjust the data protection settings or agree to all cookies directly.
Data Protection Declaration
Imprint
Collaborative project: Evaluation, development and testing of the reusable packaging, the digitization/linking at the point of sale as well as a delivery and return station for the food retail trade and the conception of cleaning logistics and germ detection - subproject C (PFABO)
Project
Project code: 281A710C20
Contract period: 01.08.2022
- 31.07.2025
Budget: 298,871 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: resource conservation, packaging, sustainability, consumer information, digital world, multi-cycle systems, hygiene
Reusable packaging makes an active contribution to environmental protection and the reduction of resources used. However, their use requires innovative logistics and cleaning solutions in order to be able to continue to ensure the quality of the products in the food packaging and to offer consumers the security of hygienic outer packaging. In this context, digitization technologies and processes are to be used at various points in the logistics of goods, such as at the point of sale or at the check-out and return stations. The overall goal of the project is to use reusable packaging as extensively as possible in food retailing and beyond, in tandem with product development, in order to minimize single-use packaging. The overarching goal is therefore to establish a cross-brand deposit system for food packaging with the help of specially developed, resource-saving and sustainable deposit boxes and associated logistics processes. The deposit boxes, which have already been developed with the help of the EXIST and Gründung innovativ innovation funding programs, are adapted to the size standards of food retail logistics and in the future will also be digitally traceable and linkable to the contents via 2D data matrix codes as information carriers, which should ultimately enable the food purchased in the deposit box to be supplemented with, for example, manufacturing information or information on the ecological footprint via a connected app. The aim of this is to enable new data for checking, evaluating and optimizing on the basis of clearly identifiable packaging, to show the complete cycle in the product life cycle of reusable packaging, to provide consumers with relevant additional information on the products purchased and thus to enable greater transparency along the food chain. The result should be a cross-brand deposit system as a comprehensive system solution in the food retail sector.
Section overview
Subjects
- Food Processing
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM)
Funding institution
Project management agencies
Associated projects: PFABO
- Collaborative project: Evaluation, development and testing of the reusable packaging, the digitization/linking at the point of sale as well as a delivery and return station for the food retail trade and the conception of cleaning logistics and germ detection - subproject A
- Collaborative project: Evaluation, development and testing of the reusable packaging, the digitization/linking at the point of sale as well as a delivery and return station for the food retail trade and the conception of cleaning logistics and germ detection - subproject B
- Collaborative project: Evaluation, development and testing of the reusable packaging, the digitization/linking at the point of sale as well as a delivery and return station for the food retail trade and the conception of cleaning logistics and germ detection - subproject D
