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Food Packaging

CHEP's smaller pallet easier to move from truck to sales floor

February 12, 2019

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.

Sustainability

Starbucks, three suppliers recycle 25 million cups

Pilot with WestRock, Sustana and Seda is a sustainability test case

Rose Shilling

November 13, 2018

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.

Industry news

Blockchain on the menu for Thanksgiving dinner

Cargill’s Honeysuckle White expands traceable turkey program

Rose Shilling

November 5, 2018

After a popular pilot, Cargill’s Honeysuckle White will increase sales significantly of turkeys that buyers can trace to family farms using blockchain technology.

Supply Chain

Community Coffee announces partnership with Blue Ridge Global

Partnership will help coffee company align distribution with demand

Casey Laughman

October 30, 2018

Community Coffee has announced a partnership with Blue Ridge Global for supply chain planning solutions to align its distribution with expected demand.

Food Safety

How processors can improve supply chain safety

New regulations, blockchain buzz and consumer demand have new ideas swirling about how connected partners should be when tracking food and keeping it safe

Rose Shilling

October 15, 2018

Big shifts in thinking about the supply chain are shaking up the food and beverage industry.

Supply Chain

Fighting food fraud with the right tools

Analytical and software tools make it easier to manage suppliers and weed out fraudulent ones

Wayne Labs

September 24, 2018

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.

Cargill Nature Conservancy water management

Cargill, Nestlé Purina, Nature Conservancy join forces to improve water sustainability in the beef supply chain

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.

Manufacturing News

Food waste in the supply chain

The environmental and socioeconomic impacts of food waste across the food supply chain are significant

May 11, 2018

In North America, approximately 168 million tonnes of food are wasted every year, according to a new study from The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in Montréal.