The initial pilot program will trace milk from farms and producers in New Zealand to Nestlé factories and warehouses in the Middle East.
July 8, 2019
Nestlé S.A., Switzerland, announced a collaboration with OpenSC, a blockchain platform that allows consumers to track their food right back to the farm.
Supermarkets of the near future will have their business models radically re-shaped by innovations instore, online, and in the food industry supply chain. These technologies will be deployed in the battle for customers but, more than this, can also benefit the planet.
Because of increasing consumer interest in a more diverse product selection, healthy foods, and more convenient meal preparation, food manufacturers in dairy, meat, baked goods and produce are supplying a widening array of new SKUs in both chilled and frozen formats. This places an ever increasing demand on cold storage, and with older facilities, it’s not very easy to automate them.
Pooled wooden pallet provider CHEP offers a half pallet that is easy to maneuver from tractor-trailer to retail floor loaded with ready-to-go products.
Starbucks and WestRock completed a pilot to recycle fiber from 25 million coffee cups for new cups.
Recycled paper company Sustana invested in pulping equipment to remove polyethylene liners from the cups and save the fiber, which was mixed into paperboard at WestRock’s mill in Evadale, Texas. Large rolls went to Seda packaging company for printing, cutting and forming.
After a popular pilot, Cargill’s Honeysuckle White will increase sales significantly of turkeys that buyers can trace to family farms using blockchain technology.
Community Coffee has announced a partnership with Blue Ridge Global for supply chain planning solutions to align its distribution with expected demand.
New regulations, blockchain buzz and consumer demand have new ideas swirling about how connected partners should be when tracking food and keeping it safe
Severin Weiss, CEO of SpecPage and an expert in integrated software process solutions for recipe-based food and beverage processors, thinks PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) are two sets of tools that can help food processors avoid using fraudulent ingredients from less-than-scrupulous suppliers.
This project is expected to reduce the environmental impact of row crop irrigation in Nebraska and provide a scalable irrigation solution for U.S. farmers.
May 24, 2018
Cargill, Minneapolis, teamed up with The Nature Conservancy, Arlington County, Va., and Nestlé Purina PetCare Co., St. Louis, Mo., to launch a 3-year water project to improve the sustainability of the beef supply chain.