R&D
The company, our patent approach, scientific work and collaborations.
Company
PAKET was founded in 2024 by a team of engineers and materials scientists around a single question: is hygiene possible without water?
The team comes from mechanical design, nonwoven technologies and field logistics. The product was tested not in a lab but in caravans, on construction sites and in disaster drills.
Patent approach
The national patent filing is complete and the application is entering the international phase via PCT.
Scope of protection: the elastic cinching ring, the liquid-permeable nonwoven package and gravity-driven contact-free transfer, working together.
Technical detail will be opened progressively on this page as publication proceeds.
Scientific work
Nonwoven layer design: we optimised the balance between liquid permeability and solid retention at 45 gsm. Thinner layers leak; thicker ones slow filtration.
Odour chemistry: we measured that cutting H₂S and NH₃ emission at the source is both more effective and cheaper than filtering it afterwards.
Elastomer fatigue: the compound that keeps ring tension loss below 15% across 10,000 cycles was developed with a university partner.
University collaborations
İTÜ — Tekstil Teknolojileri
Nonwoven layer characterisation
ODTÜ — Makine Mühendisliği
Elastomer fatigue analysis
Ege Üniversitesi — Çevre Mühendisliği
Odour emission measurement
Publications
Phase separation at source in portable sanitation: a design approach
PAKET AR-GE Ekibi · Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development · 2026
Breaking the sanitation contamination chain in post-disaster settlements
PAKET AR-GE Ekibi · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 2025
Projects
- 2026
Phase-separating package system — prototype v3
Ongoing
- 2026
Biodegradable nonwoven layer
Research phase
- 2026
TÜBİTAK 1507 — SME R&D Grant
Applied