Since the project's inception, direct contact has been established with companies across the packaging value chain. The goal is to understand their challenges and needs, identify innovation opportunities, and connect them with technologies and capabilities developed at ITENE. This initiative builds upon previous work, evolving towards more robust technological validation, the creation of strategic R&D projects, and effective market transfer of results.
The primary mission is to enhance business competitiveness in the Valencian Community. This is achieved by stimulating the environment to capture the challenges faced by the packaging sectors. The aim is also to generate strategic R&D projects, with a clear focus on promoting the circular economy within this field. Technology transfer to companies of ITENE's innovative developments, as well as driving challenges in collaboration with other innovation ecosystem players, are further fundamental pillars.
Planned activities include business prospecting, project generation and collaboration agreements, proof-of-concept studies in real or controlled environments, trend analysis, company visits, product roadmapping, and participation in specialized fairs and congresses.
In this manner, ITENE seeks to strengthen collaboration with companies and accelerate the market introduction of innovative solutions related to sustainability, circular economy, new materials, recycling, and valorization within the packaging sector.
