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Seeking existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects

• Posted by The Procter & Gamble Company
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• Project Size : Strategic project backed by large scale funding €

The issue of crawling insects in homes has been an ongoing issue. The popular types of crawling insects causing problems have been ants and cockroaches. The search will focus on existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects such as ants and cockroaches (other types of crawling insects are in scope i.e., bed bugs).

Seeking natural colors for foods and beverages

• Posted by PepsiCo
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• Project Size : 50,000 - 250,000 €

PepsiCo is evaluating different natural color ingredients and technologies to replace Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Red #40, and Blue #1 for multiple food and beverage brands in order to address consumer demand. Specific challenges are in the Red #40 (food) and Blue #1 (food & beverage) replacers.

Seeking Glue-free and Plastic-free closure of paper packaging

• Posted by Stefano Resta from Fater SpA
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• Project Size : 50,000 - 250,000 €

We are looking for a technology to seal paper packaging materials (paper only with no plastic coating) without using traditional glues or any other additive. For a sustainable packaging application, we're looking for a technology to seal or crimp kraft paper without using glue or plastic coating applied on the paper. Ideally, we want to seal 100% untreated paper without adding any other chemicals. Our preferred solution would be a folding of the packaging material

Dynamic Pupil for ophthalmological applications

• Posted by CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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• Patents for licensing

Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) have recently developed a self‐‐regulating iris based on light‐‐actuated broadband absorber metamaterial. Manufacturing companies of contact lenses and/or ocular prosthesis are being sought to collaborate and/or exploit the existing know how through a patent license agreement.

A Sustainable Procedure to Released Bioactive Compounds from Biomass

• Posted by CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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• Patents for licensing

CSIC has developed a procedure to extract bioactive compounds from wet biomass, in example microalgae or/and seaweeds, by using a sequential methodology. The procedure is quick, selective, give high yields, maintain bioactivity and minimize the impact to the environment. Industrial partners from the chemical or pharmaceutical or food industry are being sought to collaborate through a patent licence agreement. An offer for Patent Licensing

TWISCO – Digital TWIn for Sustainable Supply Chain in Construction

• Posted by Fabian Belin from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

TwiSCo is a Digital Twin solution demonstrator whose purpose is to promote the sharing of data on construction products in order to finally have complete, accurate and reliable data on a built asset and thus be able to better manage its construction, maintenance and end of life, and to reduce the gap between designed and as-built performance of future constructions. To this aim, TwiSCo offers value-added services which, by enabling players of the construction supply chain to optimize their practices, lead them to formalize and structure their data, and to share them with a win-win perspective. Here are some examples of the gains that the construction supply chain can expect from the tool: Development of new BIM use cases dedicated to the construction phase of buildings, using IFC data coming from BIM models in order to optimize material deliveries on construction sites; Integration of product data from manufacturers (according to new ISO 23386 and 23387) using an ontology to ensure collaboration and efficient data exchanges; de facto, enrichment of as-built model; Implementation of Just-in-Time logistics through a web platform where construction companies and their subcontractors can customize kits and define where they will be delivered and installed, how it should be packaged and when it should be delivered; ·Better control of delivery conditions through the integration of sensors data on site; ·Customization of delivery means and constraints for each project based on user defined business rules ; ·Improved monitoring of the construction site thanks to parcel tracking that enables to locate the place where a material is stored or installed; ·Multi criteria evaluation of current delivery scenarios and alerts on unmanaged constraints; ·Proposition of optimized delivery scenarios calculated by a genetic algorithm.