Nestle and Sheffield Hallam University partner on supply chain efficiency scheme

Nestle has announced a new supply chain efficiency scheme that will see it partner with Sheffield Hallam University.

The company is working on a series of Innovate UK-backed projects that seek to help improve resource efficiency and deliver cost savings across the food supply chain, thus benefiting the whole industry.

Nestle will partner with businesses and researchers from across the sector to collaborate with Sheffield Hallam's Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering and Spirax Sarco to develop a project to improve waste heat recovery processes.

It will focus on reducing the carbon footprint and waste heat of the 40-metre long ovens used by Nestle UK in food and drink manufacturing. Meanwhile, a second project involving Sheffield Hallam, First Milk and Foss aims to reduce raw milk supply chain wastage by three per cent across the UK supply chain.
 
Ryan McNeill, resource efficiency lead at Nestle UK and Ireland, said: "In meeting the greatest challenges facing our business today and in the future, the need to collaborate is clear."

This comes after the firm was hailed as a world leader by sustainability ratings agency CDP earlier this month for its work on climate change.