REUSABLE PACKAGING FOR THE MADE-TO-ORDER FOOD MARKET | # FOOD

Netherlands-based Ozarka provides food industry businesses with alternative packaging options. Ozarka provides a full reusable packaging service or just the containers, and it also supplies the packaging for the DeliverZero food delivery system.  

‘QUANTUM HYDROGEN’ PRODUCED USING SUNLIGHT| # ENERGY

The company, QD-Sol, has developed panels that use nanoparticles to perform artificial photosynthesis, using a component that mimics the action of an electrolyser. The panels break down the bonds between the particles in water to release oxygen and hydrogen.

SMART PLASTIC COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS| # TECH

A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a plastic that can change its properties – including hardness and elasticity – which makes it malleable, versatile, and an ideal option for flexible electronics or soft robotics.

GROWING SAFFRON USING VERTICAL FARMING | # AGRICULTURE

Saffron Tech is working towards a new, verifiable commercial market for red gold saffron based on vertically farming multiple harvests in a year. The well-known benefits of reduced water, pesticide, and energy use that vertical farming provides growers are used in saffron production.

‘INVISIBLE FIBRE’ MAKES FOOD HEALTHIER WITHOUT CHANGING ITS TASTE OR TEXTURE| # FOOD

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia have worked with Microtec Engineering Group to develop a starch-based product, which they have called FiberX.