Increasing efficiency & sustainability in online retail glass packaging delivery

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• 批准号: 60162
• 金额: $ 4.69万
• 依托单位: SUMMERHOUSE DRINKS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=60162
• 关键词: Increasing; efficiency; sustainability; online; retail

The overriding vision for this project is to develop more environmentally sustainable, more effective and labour efficient packaging for small glass bottles and employ them in a new ecommerce store for our soft drinks which can use lower quality fruit and herb ingredients from UK fruit & herb processors. This will support the processors in the UK by reducing waste and assist our drink manufacturing business which has lost 60% of its turnover due to Covid-19\.Key objectives for this project are:1\. Collaborating with our packaging supplier to develop an innovative shipping packaging solution for small, glass bottles for delivery by courier which is more environmentally sustainable, labour efficient and effective in delivering its contents safely that the current options.2.Through our packaging supplier, make this innovative solution available to producers of other products in small glass bottles to improve their online delivery proposition.3\. Launch an online platform to allow customers to purchase our drinks online and have them delivered by courier, diversifying our own route to market.4\. Work closely with our ingredient suppliers to identify excess or waste produce to maximise their use in our soft drinks, therefore improving returns and efficiencies of UK fruit and herb processors.The main areas of focus for this project are two fold. Firstly, the development and successful launch of our ecommerce platform. Without this there would be no need to develop the second area of focus, a new shipping packaging solution for small glass bottles.Current shipping packaging options for small bottles are either to wrap each bottle individually in plastic bubble wrap or use cardboard dividers within the cardboard box. The first option is not environmentally sustainable and labour intensive and both options still produce breakages in transit, costing time and money.Our concept is to develop a cardboard die cut which holds each bottle within the cardboard shipping outer. It reduces the opportunity for bottles to become loose in transit and smash against each other and keeps bottles away from the edge of the box where they are also at risk of being smashed in transit.Our own research and our packaging supplier have not found anything like this on the market and will require their in house packaging innovation centre to develop the product.

该项目的首要愿景是为小玻璃瓶开发更环保、更有效和更节省劳动力的包装，并将其用于我们的软饮料新电子商务商店，这些软饮料可以使用英国水果和草药加工商生产的低质量水果和草药成分。这将通过减少浪费来支持英国的加工商，并帮助我们的饮料制造业务，该业务因Covid-19而损失了60%的营业额。与我们的包装供应商合作，开发一种创新的小玻璃瓶运输包装解决方案，通过快递交付，这是更环保的可持续发展，劳动效率和有效的安全交付其内容比目前的选择。2.通过我们的包装供应商，使这种创新的解决方案提供给其他产品的小玻璃瓶生产商，以改善他们的在线交付提案。推出一个在线平台，让客户在线购买我们的饮料，并通过快递送货，使我们自己的市场路线多样化。与我们的原料供应商密切合作，识别多余或废弃的产品，以最大限度地利用它们在我们的软饮料中，从而提高英国水果和草药加工商的回报和效率。该项目的主要关注领域有两个方面。首先，我们的电子商务平台的开发和成功推出。如果没有这个，就没有必要开发第二个重点领域，即一种新的小型玻璃瓶运输包装解决方案。目前，小型玻璃瓶的运输包装选择是将每个瓶子单独包装在塑料泡沫包装中，或者在纸板箱中使用纸板分隔物。第一种选择是不环保和劳动密集型的，两种选择仍然会在运输过程中产生破损，花费时间和金钱。我们的概念是开发一种纸板模切，将每个瓶子固定在纸板运输外部。它减少了瓶子在运输过程中变得松散和相互碰撞的机会，并使瓶子远离盒子的边缘，在那里它们也有在运输过程中被打碎的风险。我们自己的研究和我们的包装供应商在市场上没有发现任何类似的东西，将要求他们的内部包装创新中心开发产品。