PepsiCo decided to select half a dozen start-up companies in order to improve its European supply chains by implementing new innovative projects. With these collaborations, the food and beverage company seeks to improve and advance in important areas such as environmental sustainability and production efficiency.
PepsiCo will test the technologies these startups are working on in Turkey, Belgium and Portugal focusing on four key areas: efficiency and automation, sustainable cleaning and hygiene, recycling and water recovery.
“We will seek to discover solutions that can have an impact at scale. Our ambition is to identify which technologies will have the greatest potential to drive our sustainability agenda and leverage them across our supply chain in Europe and beyond. In this way, by embracing emerging technologies, we can identify more sustainable ways of operating across the business and put PepsiCo at the forefront of technological innovation” reiterated PepsiCo’s Head of Sustainability for Europe, Katharina Stenhol.
Specifically, in Turkey, it will test with Pulse Industrial and BrenPower, two companies that detect problems in steam traps through artificial intelligence systems, in order to reduce the carbon footprint of their factories and improve their efficiency.
With UBQ Materials, it will work on its patented conversion process, capable of transforming unsorted household waste into a bio-based thermoplastic with a positive footprint for the environment. This material will be used in Lay’s displays in Turkey.
In the case of Portugal, PepsiCo will rely on Ozo Innovations for research into safer and more efficient hygiene formulas. Its ‘elocube’ can convert cold water and salt into a combined cleaning and disinfection solution by electrolysis.
The American Elateq, which provides electrochemical wastewater treatment to remove pathogens and organic and inorganic contaminants from water, will be tested in Belgium. If successful, it will offer a circular water system.
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