SIBO G. d.o.o.

Their core work

SIBO G. is a Slovenian industrial company specializing in coating and surface engineering technologies, particularly for packaging, automotive, and functional material applications. Their core competency lies in nanomaterial deposition processes — including electrospray and nanodeposition techniques — applied to production lines at industrial scale. More recently, they have expanded into sustainable packaging systems, working with bio-based materials, barrier coatings, and end-of-life upcycling strategies for multilayer flexible and rigid packaging. They function as a technology implementation partner in large research consortia, contributing industrial process know-how and manufacturing validation rather than basic research.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (2015–2018), SIBO G. was firmly in the nanomaterials processing space — electrospray deposition, nanocomposite injection, and functional coatings applied to demanding end-use sectors like automotive parts, self-cleaning solar panels, and barrier packaging. By their second project (2021–2024), the nanotechnology framing had largely dropped away, replaced by a sustainability and circular economy focus: bioplastics, enzymatic upcycling, ebeam processing, and paper-based multilayer structures. The thread connecting both periods is barrier packaging and coating technology, suggesting the company has repositioned the same industrial capabilities toward the growing sustainable materials market rather than reinventing itself entirely.

SIBO G. is moving toward the sustainable packaging and circular materials space, retaining its coating and barrier-layer expertise but applying it to bio-based and recyclable substrates — a direction well-aligned with EU Green Deal packaging regulations and growing industry demand for recyclable multilayer solutions.

How they like to work

SIBO G. has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never taking on a coordinator role across their two projects. Despite their small project count, they have worked with 40 distinct partners across 12 countries, implying involvement in large, multi-stakeholder consortia averaging around 20 partners per project. This pattern suggests they are a valued specialist contributor — brought in for their industrial process or materials expertise — rather than a project initiator or manager.

SIBO G. has built a surprisingly broad network for a company with only two projects: 40 unique partners across 12 countries. This European-wide reach reflects participation in large, geographically diverse research consortia typical of H2020 Industrial Association (IA) and Research and Innovation Actions (RIA).

What sets them apart

SIBO G. occupies an unusual niche as an industrial company — not a university or research institute — that has operated in both the nanotechnology and sustainable materials spaces within H2020. Their value to a consortium is practical: they bring manufacturing-side knowledge of coating deposition and packaging line processes that academic partners typically lack. For coordinators building consortia around bio-based packaging or functional coatings, SIBO G. offers a Slovenian industrial anchor with demonstrated ability to contribute to both early-stage research (RIA) and implementation-oriented (IA) projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• OptiNanoPro
  The larger of their two projects (EUR 269,150) and the one that best reflects their core industrial identity, covering nanodeposition across three distinct application domains — packaging, automotive, and solar panels — which is an unusually broad technical scope for a single production-line specialist.
• PRESERVE
  Marks a clear pivot toward sustainable circular economy themes, covering bioplastics, enzymatic upcycling, and ebeam processing simultaneously, which signals that SIBO G. has positioned itself for the post-2020 regulatory shift toward recyclable packaging.