Today we'll tell you about an interesting innovation, which at first glance has nothing to do with the packaging. However, in fact, it can make a small revolution and allow you to save a huge amount of both packaging material and space during transportation and storage of the final product. Intrigued? Now let's talk in more detail.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a unique pasta technology that can be “pre-programmed” to change shape when cooked. Those. all pasta is made from a special dough flat and straight, and when immersed in boiling water, it increases in volume and changes shape. At the same time, the future shape of such a paste is very variable - it can be twisted, spiral, tubular, etc.

What does this development mean for the packaging industry? First of all, huge savings. After all, now it will not be necessary to “pack the air”, which is enough when packing any curly pasta. Penne, conchiglioni, cannelloni, all shapes other than flat are packaged with a huge waste of usable space in the package. Now this can be avoided. Thin and flat sheets of paste are easily and economically packaged and transported.

It should be noted that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mentioned its similar development back in 2017. However, it was technologically laborious, involving 3d printers and did not receive support and application. The development, presented in Jerusalem, does not require 3D printing and is announced as simple and inexpensive to manufacture.

At the moment, the Israeli technology transfer company Yissum is interested in this development and is looking for investors to further scale it up.

In the meantime, the new technology remains only a technology and has not been launched into wide production, you can find the equipment for filling and packaging all traditional pasta products here.

The materials of the sites packagingeurope.com, yissum.co.il were used.