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Italian Coffee Trader Alkaff Turns to Dimitra’s Blockchain Platform to Ensure Compliance with Deforestation Regulation

August 16, 2024

This platform utilizes artificial intelligence and blockchain technology to acquire and analyze farmer data and ensure market compliance with the upcoming European Union Deforestation Regulation, set to take effect at the end of 2024.

Siemens' turnkey Blockchain-based Trusted Traceability Solution expedited future recall scenarios throughout the brewer’s extensive supply chain

Tools to Improve In-House Traceability

Wayne Labs

January 29, 2024

A brewer turns to Siemens for its turnkey Blockchain-based Trusted Traceability Solution to expedite future recall scenarios throughout the brewer’s extensive supply chain.

FOOD ENGINEERING’s Top 10 New Plant Products of 2023

These are the manufacturing plant products that you, the readers, were most interested in throughout the past year.

December 28, 2023

These Are The Manufacturing Plant Products That You, The Readers, Were Most Interested In Throughout The Past Year.

Recording the chain of custody of olive oil

Automation Technology

Blockchain Technology: Slow on the Uptake?

Blockchain technology could solve a lot of food safety and supply chain problems, but acceptance has been relatively slow in the U.S.

Wayne Labs

October 11, 2023

Implementing blockchain technology needs some more time to gestate.

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Software/Devices

UNISOT’s nChain Solution to End Food Fraud

April 11, 2023

A blockchain software solution by UNISOT could help with traceability and stabilization of the food economy.

Raw materials like palm oil are often mixed with physically identical raw materials

Blockchain Track & Trace

Unilever tests blockchain technology in tracing palm oil origins to individual suppliers

The pilot, operated by Unilever and Green Token by SAP, helped to ensure that only sustainable sources for palm oil were used

March 23, 2022

In a successful proof of concept in Indonesia, Unilever applied GreenToken, a blockchain technology, to source more than 188,000 tons of palm oil fruit.

Blockchain technology: Is it ready for prime time?

While there have been many success stories, blockchain technologies are still developing, so producers and processors will need to examine their needs carefully

Wayne Labs

January 4, 2022

Blockchain providers are working hard to gain the acceptance of food and beverage processors—no matter their size, and standard datasets like GS1 are helping to define the rules for consistent information handling.

Penfolds, one of the world’s most respected winemakers in South Australia, has become the first wine to partner with BlockBar

Blockchain Track & Trace

Getting started with blockchain

Blockchain-based track and trace systems can work standalone, and they can be integrated into MES and ERP systems, giving processors several options

Wayne Labs

December 7, 2021

Blockchain applications can be cost effective for small and medium processors, yet integrate into already existing MES and ERP systems.

Yorkshire England Flour Mill Whitworth Bros.

Buhler and Whitworth Bros. open high-tech flour mill in Yorkshire, England

September 24, 2021

Bühler and Whitworth Bros—the UK’s largest miller—have opened a high-tech flour plant called Mill E3 at Whitley Bridge in Yorkshire, England. The data generated and analyzed at the Whitley Bridge plant will drive the evolution of milling technology from the current data assisted mill into a plant capable of using its own process parameters in a closed loop to optimize production. This development of the self-adjusting mill will be the precursor to the SmartMill.