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Whether for juice boxes, potato chip bags or plastic trays for minced meat: Packaging is indispensable in the food industry. The Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV is working to develop new recycling processes and alternative packaging materials so that packaging not only protects food but also the environment.

As current crises demonstrate, even industrialized countries are inadequately protected against food supply shortages. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV are working on tools to make the food sector more crisis-proof.