Nfinite Nanotechnology Inc

Published purpose

Plastic packaging is responsible for significant soil pollution, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Compostable and fully recyclable packaging materials have the potential to displace single-use plastics in the food-packaging industry, but these sustainable alternatives have poor moisture-barrier properties so can’t keep food fresh. Nfinite Nanotechnology Inc., a Waterloo startup company, has developed barrier coating technology for sustainable packaging. The technology enables solvent-free, open-air coating at high throughput on flexible packaging materials. It produces coatings with excellent moisture-barrier properties that are only a few tens of nanometers thick, so they do not affect the biodegradability or recyclability of the sustainable packaging. In this project, Nfinite is setting up infrastructure to test its barrier coatings with packaging suppliers and consumer-packaged-goods companies. Together they aim to tackle the global plastic-waste challenge.