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Author
Cerdà Mas, Ismael Vicent
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Abstract
The globalization and home fast-delivery services have led companies to destiny much of its resources in logistics and designing products’ transportation. Light, resistant, and low lifecycle impact packaging are the current key success factors.
In this Final Degree Project in Engineering in Industrial Technologies, the design and optimization of the manufacturing process of a take-out container made of sugar cane fiber or also known as bagasse, a natural and biodegradable material, is addressed. To achieve this goal, different consecutive stages will be carried out to design the lowest environmental impact process possible. From the selection of the material assessing different existing options in the market, the design of the packaging’s manufacturing process by Wet Compression Molding (WCM), and the required mould’s optimization for the defined geometry and its production. Different calculations and simulations will be carried out to fulfil mould’s functions.
To analyse and quantify the project’s impact, finally an EcoAudit of the designed process will be done comparing it with two equal packages but made of other more commonly used materials in the industry: one made of Polylactic Acid and the other of Polystyrene. Moreover, it will be calculated the project’s economic cost to know the required budget inversion for designing a packaging with these features.
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