Increasing efficiency & sustainability in online retail glass packaging delivery

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的新电子商务商店，该商店可以使用来自英国水果和草药加工商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。本项目的主要目标是：1\；与我们的包装供应商合作，开发一种创新的运输包装解决方案，用于通过快递运送的小玻璃瓶，这种解决方案在运送内容物方面比目前的选择更环保，更高效，更有效。通过我们的包装供应商，将这种创新的解决方案提供给其他小玻璃瓶产品的生产商，以改善他们的在线交付主张。推出一个在线平台，让顾客在线购买我们的饮料，并由快递公司送货上门，使我们自己的市场渠道多样化。与我们的原料供应商密切合作，找出多余或浪费的产品，以最大限度地利用我们的软饮料，从而提高英国水果和草药加工商的回报和效率。这个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。没有这个，就没有必要开发第二个重点领域，一个新的运输包装解决方案的小玻璃瓶。目前的运输包装选择小瓶要么包装每个瓶单独在塑料泡沫包装或使用纸箱内纸板隔板。第一种选择不是环境可持续的，也是劳动密集型的，而且这两种选择在运输过程中仍然会产生破损，既费时又费钱。我们的概念是开发纸板模切，其中每个瓶子内的纸板运输外。它减少了瓶子在运输过程中松动和相互碰撞的机会，并使瓶子远离箱子边缘，因为它们在运输过程中也有被砸碎的危险。我们自己的研究和我们的包装供应商还没有在市场上发现这样的东西，将需要他们的内部包装创新中心来开发产品。

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.