The perfect partner for innovation in packaging!

Pack4Food is a consortium of 63 companies, the most important Flemish research centers active in the food-packaging interaction field and network organizations. Pack4Food aims to stimulate innovation in food-packaging, both at the food producer and at their suppliers (packaging producers, filling machine producers, ...), and also to support companies in their everyday packaging challenges.

OptiBarrier is the collective research project of Pack4Food where it searches the optimal barrier properties of packages for selected food. We assess the central question of too much versus not enough packaging from the gas, light and functional barrier.
Are you interested in calculating your optimal barrier and knowing the maximum durability? You can find out more about OptiBarrier here.

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News - Latest Posts

Food Packaging: the Road to GMP - 07-06-2016
Branding and packaging - 30-04-2015 Report from the StiMa BrandCafé XL
Innovative technology for leak detection in MAP packaging - 31-03-2015 MAPAX® Leak Detection, is an innovative technology which makes use of food-grade hydrogen gas for the detection of defects in MAP packaging.

Events - Upcoming events

Migratie | seminarie - 11-09-2018
Migration | Seminar - 11-09-2018 On September 11 2018 Pack4Food organizes a seminar on migration. It will take place in Ghent in the afternoon.
Training EMAP: how do I pack cut vegetables and fruit? - 18-10-2018 A Pack4Food training about packing cut vegetables and fruit, from the point of view from the product, the packing material and the packing machine.

In the last couple of years, Pack4Food has successfully completed several collective research projects whose results are widely disseminated. Additionally, Pack4Food also gives lectures on national and international seminars/workshops on various aspects of the food packaging topic.

Based on the results obtained during these projects, a software program that simulates the evolution of the oxygen content in the headspace of the packed foods, named PredOxyPack, was developed.