SAVE FOOD News
07/10/2025
How Packaging Technology Ensures Food Security and Saves Energy – An Interview with Hassia-Redatron CEO Stephan Bahr
How can packaging technology contribute to both food security and sustainability? Hassia-Redatron CEO Stephan Bahr shares his perspective on innovation, the circular economy, and why flexible solutions are shaping the industry’s future.
20/08/2025
Australian Students Bloom on the World Stage with “Fresh Herbs” Packaging
Australian design students have claimed an impressive haul at the 2025 WorldStar Student Awards. Among the standout entries was Fresh Herbs, Fresher Packaging from RMIT – a clever, sustainable design that dramatically extends shelf life and tackles food waste.
19/08/2025
How Packaging Preserves Freshness – and Reduces Food Waste!
What if asparagus no longer turned woody and strawberries stayed juicy for longer? These very questions were investigated at Geisenheim University – with exciting insights for retailers, producers, and the packaging industry. Smart packaging for fruit and vegetables can do more than just protect: it extends shelf life, reduces waste, and conserves valuable resources.
23/06/2025
Rocher Goes Green with New Packaging
Ferrero is proving that sustainability can be delicious: its Rocher treats now come with 40% less packaging weight, optimized transport solutions, and the clear goal of “over 90% recyclability”. Like this, the company has already saved around 6,000 tonnes of plastic since project launch.
27/05/2025
A persistent and underestimated issue: fighting food loss and waste with SAVE FOOD
Around 40 per cent of food is lost – while hunger continues to be a global challenge. The SAVE FOOD initiative shows how smart packaging solutions can be true gamechangers. Saving food means protecting the climate, conserving resources, and securing the future.
02/02/2025
Long shelf life and sustainability: Knowledge transfer from research to industry
New technologies emerging from research help the food and packaging industries to combine sustainability, long shelf life and efficiency. Together with its partners, Wageningen Food & Biobased Research develops intelligent packaging, biobased materials and AI-based solutions that are already seeing successful application.
16/01/2025
Tomato Jos in Nigeria is the winner of the 2024 SAVE FOOD project competition
Tomato Jos Farming and Processing Limited in Nigeria has won the 2024 SAVE FOOD project competition. This initiative centres on practical solutions in order to reduce the post-harvest loss of tomatoes by approximately 45 percent. Transport packaging plays an important role in this process.
09/12/2024
SAVE FOOD and SUSTAINABILITY Design Awards for sustainable packaging solutions
This year's SAVE FOOD Design and SUSTAINABILITY Design Awards were presented at the Shanghai World of Packaging in November 2024. The awards recognise innovative packaging solutions along the value chain with a positive environmental impact. The companies honoured are: United Caps (Malaysia), Koch Pac-Systeme (Germany), UBIS (Spain) and Multivac (China).
19/11/2024
Foreign object detection and food safety – in search of the blue glove
Sometimes large quantities of edible food are disposed of for safety reasons, even though only a single product may be contaminated. To avoid this, manufacturers rely on detection systems that recognise foreign objects. Systems specialist Sesotec recommends combinations of sieves, magnets, metal detectors and X-ray systems for this purpose, and thus contributes to the reduction of food waste.
23/09/2024
Woodly – made of wood, looks like plastic
Wood-based substitute material for plastic offers the food industry new sustainable options. Finnish start-up and SAVE FOOD member Woodly supplies wood cellulose polymers for various packaging solutions and products such as reusable cups. The carbon-neutral material is particularly useful in ensuring that bread is hygienically packaged while staying fresh for a long time and looking appetising.
23/08/2024
Artificial intelligence for more process quality
Artificial intelligence (AI) will play an important part in the future in optimising processes within the food industry. It can lengthen the shelf life of food by allowing precise control of temperature and humidity, for example. AI analyses huge amounts of data in real time in order to guarantee optimum recipes and storage conditions and minimise spoiling.
25/06/2024
Kombucha leather – packaging from the tea lab
The packaging industry is looking for creative solutions to package food both safely and sustainably. A young team of students and researchers in Istanbul is currently working on prototypes of SCOBY, a leather-like biofilm made from fermented kombucha tea.
13/12/2023
SIG Foundation wins first SAVE FOOD Project competition
With “Cartons for Good” the SIG Foundation leverages SIG’s know-how to reduce worldwide food losses and prevailed in the Project Competition organised by the SAVE FOOD Initiative. The project stands for the use of innovation and technology to solve one of the most pressing global problems.
