WorldStar Winner: AgroLife®

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AgroLife®

Company:

Smurfit Kappa

www.smurfitkappa.com/es

Country: Spain

Category: Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

This solution is perfect for fresh produts such as fruits and vegetables that experience accelerated deterioration during the supply chain due to exposure to ethylene gas. Ethylene gas is naturally emitted by certain fruits and vegetables and can speed up the ripening process, leading to shorter shelf lives. This solution effectively absorbs this gas, slowing down the ripening process and extending the product's shelf life by up to 50%. By ensuring that the product reaches its destination in better-than-expected condition, it guarantees that consumers receive fresh, high-quality product. As a result, significantly less product waste is generated, making it an environmentally responsible choice.

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In Spain, where approximately 7.9 million tons of fruits and vegetables are wasted annually, this solution plays a crucial role in reducing food waste. This makes it not only a practical choice but also an environmentally responsible one, contributing to the reduction of food waste and reducing the carbon foot print

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Category: SPECIAL AWARD - Packaging that Saves Food

Special Award: Gold Award

Our innovative packaging solution is a game-changer in the fresh produce industry, addressing critical challenges throughout the supply chain. This solution effectively absorbs ethylene gas produced by fresh fruits and vegetables during transport. This is particularly valuable for produts that either emits or is sensitive to ethylene, extending their shelf life post-harvest consumption period. With this application we are promoting less waste of fresh product and saving tonnes of food discarted because of the ripening.

Suitable for those fruits and vegetables that produce and are sensitive to the presence of ethylene, allowing them to last longer after being harvested. 100% safe for food contact, tested and certified, it delays the ripening of fruit and vegetables reducing its waste, it's ideal for export products which spend a lot of time in transports & storages, and it is an integral packaging system, no additional handling.

Very easy and feasible to implement in many solutions that requires it, as we apply the treament on the inside surface of the box in our printing facility and afterwards the box is assembled in our agriculture converting plant. This makes it a very easy solution to produce and shipped everywhere.

100% recyclable, biodegradable and repulpable. Based on reneweable raw material which allows us to recover the fibre and reproduce the box into a new Agrolife tray.

Many fruits and vegetables are thrown away due to their condition and appearance and this increases food waste every day. With our AgroLife® solution we are helping to minimize this waste and save tons of food, in addition to making it last longer in the consumer's home.

This solution not only extends the shelf life of specific fruits and vegetables, allowing society to enjoy them for a longer duration than anticipated, but it also enhances the product's quality. By enabling these items to mature naturally instead of being harvested prematurely and stored in frozen chambers, it ensures that they retain their natural flavors and textures.