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Making Lower Carbon products

Making Lower Carbon products. Bob Marsh Managing Director Food Processing Knowledge Transfer Network. Agenda. The Knowledge Transfer Network Drivers for products with lower carbon footprint Demands from retailers Challenges in manufacturing practice Validation and standardisation

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Making Lower Carbon products

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  1. Making Lower Carbon products Bob Marsh Managing Director Food Processing Knowledge Transfer Network

  2. Agenda • The Knowledge Transfer Network • Drivers for products with lower carbon footprint • Demands from retailers • Challenges in manufacturing practice • Validation and standardisation • Where to get help

  3. Bob Marsh • A chemist with 30 years experience in the UK Food industry • Managing Director of RHM Technology & Director of RHM (1996-2002) • Chairman of Food & Drink Foresight(1997-9) • Chairman of CCFRA (2002) • Governor & Trustee of British Nutrition Foundation • MD of Food Processing Faraday Partnership Ltd & Food Processing KTN

  4. The Food processing Knowledge Transfer Partnershipand Food Processing Faraday Partnership

  5. The Food Processing Knowledge Transfer Network • Our vision is to be recognised as a world class initiator, translator and disseminator of research and knowledge applied to food processing, which leads to demonstrable improvement to UK Food processing quality and efficiency. • We catalyse research and obtain funding • We translate technology into food manufacturers • We build and scale up ‘proof of principle’ prototypes • We organise conferences, workshops, technology road maps and educational publications

  6. The Food Processing KTN • Uniquely serving the Food industry • Contacts with over 4,000 clients in over 2,000 companies • The KTN includes the ‘Faraday’ which is a not for profit company limited by guarantee • Turnover £1.5M/year. Funded 20% DTI, 10%Defra, 70 % private contracts • >20 contracts with Regional Development Agencies

  7. Drivers for low carbon footprint products • Energy costs • Legislation • Customer demands – consumers • - retailers • Competitive advantage

  8. Demands from retailers • Tesco • M&S • Sainsbury’s

  9. Sourcing raw and packaging materials Processing and distribution energy costs Waste costs Retailer distribution and costs in supermarket In home storage costs Waste food and packaging disposal costs Suppliers’ and suppliers’ suppliers’ life cycle analyses costs Local vs central manufacturing Heat and waste recovery benefits Kitchen redesign Waste taxes, promotion redesign Challenges in manufacturing practice

  10. Validation & standardisation • The food industry needs a qualified and independent authority with credibility to check and validate carbon footprint claims • Based on agreed standards of what is included and what is not • The carbon trust? • The Oxford Environmental Unit?

  11. Sources of help • The Food Processing KTN resource efficiency clubs with RDAs, for energy saving and recycling technologies and for technology road mapping • Envirowise • Carbon Trust for grants and tax breaks on energy efficient systems

  12. Thank you. Questions? • Contact bob.marsh@fpfaraday.com

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