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Research on home food packaging
The Cofresco Institute can look back on seven years of instructional co-operation and meetings with packaging experts from all over Europe.
During this time it has built up a competent and lively network in the scientific community committed to exploring new topics and aspects of food packaging. In order to keep you updated, the Cofresco Institute would like to share with you this wealth of knowledge gathered during numerous 
events and its research prizes/innovation prizes.
You will also find background information on the Institute itself, its genesis, creation and mission, as well as on the company behind the project.
„Packaging of Food – Quality – Convenience – Safety.” This is the topic of the annual conference of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising on 1-2 July 2009. Closing date is 15 June 2009.
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The functionality of a package, the selection of materials, the packaging design, and waste management: these are possibilities to reduce the environmental impact of a package. What else has to be considered explains a presentation by Prof. Dr. Horst-Christian Langowski, Director of Fraunhofer IVV in Germany. To read the whole presentation please click 
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