FoodGuardians Partners With Schoeller Allibert — a Big Step Forward
Todays Investors are Tomorrow Customers
At Smart Containers we are all about participation and inclusion. We are not only trying to raise money from the community but also make our investors our future customers. We include you in our company by sharing dividends to the investors that buy SMARC tokens. We also want to include you and all others, in this case consumers of food and that is pretty much everyone, in the success and adaption of our products.
All products by us may directly or indirectly affect, influence or support everyone in the community. Be it a vaccine that got safely transported across the globe through challenging climate. Be it a dearly needed medicine delivered safely to your doorstep. Or in the case of the example we want to highlight today — your food delivered safer and fresher than ever.
Partnering With the Best
Smart Containers and its subsidies SkyCell and FoodGuardians have learned early on that partnering with the right strategic and operational partners is of paramount importance for a successful go to market and a fast and deep market penetration.
For FoodGuardians we choose to partner with the industry leader in food crates. Schoeller Allibert has a long and ongoing history; from beer crate to high tech Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP). Today they serve millions by providing all kinds of reusable and returnable transport packaging. The best known product by them (most probably) is the foldable green food crate that is used to transport and present food in many grocery stores around the world.
FoodGuardians and Schoeller Allibert will bring to market an overnight delivery box for food and groceries, catering to both individual consumers as well as the hospitality industry.
Our CEO Richard Ettl comments on the partnership:
“We want to ensure it costs less than €1 EUR per day to protect the products that come to people’s homes when they shop online. Combining Schoeller Allibert’s long history of innovation in packaging with our cutting-edge container technology, we are poised to bring something truly exceptional to the industry, all at an affordable cost.”
A Booming Market
With many of the traditional grocery store chains getting into food home delivery and large scale e-commerce pioneers getting into food home delivery as well this market is already large and expanding in the next few years. Food is still small compared to electronics or other non food goods in some countries. This is also due to non optimal packaging and cooling so far.
About Schoeller Allibert
The group has developed out of traditional roots from Gebrüder Schoeller in Düren (founded in 1799) and Alexander Schoeller & Co, Jülich (founded in 1880) and is now held by Martin and Christoph Schoeller and their families in the 7th generation. (http://www.schoeller.org)
The subsidiary Schoeller Allibert is the „worldmarket leader in plastic returnable transport packaging“.
Key figures:
Schoeller Allibert is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of returnable plastic packaging for material handling. We have been inventing, developing, designing and manufacturing Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP) for more than 50 years. Today we are the European market leader in operations worldwide.
Revenue (2015) € 555 million
Employees: 2000
Operations in over 20 countries
https://www.schoellerallibert.com/about-us/facts-and-figures/
The Problem We Face
The food packaging industry is inefficient, uneconomical and highly ecologically damaging today. Immense amounts of waste are produced and disposed in landfills. The problem is twofold: reuse of the legacy packaging is economically not worthwhile and the legacy packaging is not made to be reused.
Food packaging also has problems with continuity in cooling. Ice melts and when there is a holdup in the shipping schedule the food transported goes bad and thereby unnecessary food waste is created.
In our whitepaper we describe the competitive set as follows:
99% of the market consists of one-way Styrofoam boxes, with negative environment impact. Only 3% of Styrofoam used worldwide is recycled. The rest is burnt, creating harmful acid residues that send pollutants into the atmosphere.
FoodGuardians containers reduce total cost of shipping by up to 20% compared to existing Styrofoam boxes, since they replace heavy ice content with efficient, lighter and more reliable cooling technology. Therefore, the shipped content per box is higher, which lowers total costs. All FoodGuardians containers are reusable and recyclable, making them an ecologically sound proposition.
FoodGuardians outperforms the competitive set in all dimensions. The cooling technology is proven in a market that knows zero tolerance and no room for failure. Smart Containers first subsidiary „SkyCell“ developed and successfully operates a fleet of air freight containers for transportation of temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals.
The FoodGuardians containers are constructed with the very same high tech equipment developed for the SkyCell containers. They are equipped with state-of-the-art IoT sensors and tracking devices to ensure a beyond industry standards temperature tracking and data storing.
This all results in you as the consumer getting the chance to enjoy your food “one day fresher”. So as an investor you profit from the future success of Smart Containers and by that FoodGuardians in two ways. On one hand you will profit from the dividend share you get with holding the SMARC tokens and on the other hand you will get your food delivered to your store fresher than ever and ecologically sound.
The following containers are developed for the go to market:
We hope that you get to see and touch one soon yourself and let the quality of the product convince you. We are looking forward to a bright future and a cleaner, fresher and easier one as well!
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Swissinfo.ch article by Matthew Allen
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