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The Dutch company is a leader in fair-trade chocolate in the Netherlands. Their main concern is the welfare of the cocoa farmers and their families, which goes hand in hand with being aware of the need to protect the environment. They believe every company has a responsibility to take better care of the planet, ideally not only limiting its negative impact but positively contributing to better business practices.
The company decided to have their chocolate bags, the ones that are not in direct contact with the chocolate, made of paper. When plastic packaging waste is not recycled, it is incinerated (with energy recovery) together with other waste. In the Netherlands, packaging waste is no longer landfilled. But there are still countries with landfill sites and where the collection and processing of plastic waste is not well organized. They also see plastic waste ending up in the ocean, where it poses a great danger to the ecosystem. Because of this negative impact on the environment, the company decided to go for paper. They also think the look and feel of paper packaging fits well with their brand and vision. But paper has always a memory and will wrinkle when you handle it. It is also more vulnerable than plastic and will tear easily, on the production line or on the shelf in stores, resulting in waste and a damaged appearance.
At this moment the company is looking for companies that share their vision and help them with solutions for offering chocolate bars in sustainable but also sturdy paper packaging. The Dutch company is interested in innovative ideas that can help them in offering a paper packaging that is fully recyclable, sturdy (a minimum of wrinkles and no tearing) and runs efficiently over the production line. The selected potential partner can be offered:
•An assignment to realize a prototype or pilot.
• Possibility to test the prototype over the production line at their co-manufacturer
•Probability of a follow-up order, scaling up or lasting cooperation.
A cooperation agreement will be provided, in the case of a new collaboration.
IMPORTANT: This Technology Request refers to an innovation challenge published on the internet platform. If an organization expresses interest before closing date, it will be guided towards this open innovation platform. Interested participants can browse free through other submissions and engage in discussions. All submissions will get feedback by the company on this open platform. The challenge opens on June 7th and closes on July 12th, 2021 Mind that posts on this platform are not confidential. Beside open discussions on the platform, sharing of confidential information will be made possible on demand. After that, the firm will select the SME's with whom they would like to cooperate in the development of a solution. Once the challenge is closed, Expressions of Interest for this technology request will be treated in the traditional way.
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