TERRIFIC

The TERRIFIC project aims to showcase bio-based, circular flagship solutions for advanced packaging applications, achieving superior performance while enhancing circularity and resource efficiency throughout the supply chain. To accomplish this, the project seeks to:

• Establish a groundbreaking first-of-a-kind multipurpose biorefinery to produce bio-based building blocks, demonstrating its applicability.
• Produce biopolyesters and biomaterials with over 95% renewable resource content and enhanced properties, including barrier and durability.
• Develop bio-based, recyclable, compostable, and high-performing flagship packaging products using traditional industrial technologies.
• Demonstrate the sustainability, circularity, and safety of the bio-based materials used in the flagship packaging products compared to existing benchmarks.
• Enhance circularity and resource efficiency by validating multiple end-of-life scenarios for the developed flagship packaging solutions.
• Evaluate and demonstrate the replicability of the TERRIFIC concept through a multi-actor approach, engaging all stakeholders in the value chain to exploit new business opportunities.

Involving 19 partners from nine countries, including six SMEs, TERRIFIC is a multidisciplinary endeavour spanning the entire value chain. The project's expected impacts include:

• Enhancing product quality, reducing products spoilage, and promoting innovative and competitive solutions in comparison to existing alternatives.
• Improving mechanical and barrier properties, enhancing food safety and longer shelf life across the entire supply value chain, while additionally improving circularity and resource efficiency.
• Making use of unexploited byproducts and side streams, while additionally promoting sustainable circular practices and green transition.
• Enhancing packaging solutions for storage and transit, from factory to shelf.
• Lowering the climate impact of bioplastic by decreasing 40% of carbon dioxide equivalent along the entire value chain.
• Enhancing regional economic growth and business opportunities, thereby generating new job prospects.
• Developing intellectual property for innovative achievements (multipurpose flagship plant; innovative biomaterials).
• Promoting the inclusion of bio-based materials and packaging products in multiple market sectors.