Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd

Rapid expansion of e-commerce for perishables, coupled with expanding cold chain last mile delivery fleets, contribute to high levels of damaging emissions. Last mile delivery is the most complex/costly part of supply chains, particularly for those selling temperature-sensitive products such as food and pharmaceuticals. Ensuring optimum temperature for tr...

The world's population will reach 10 billion people by 2050\. By this point, the demand for animal-based products will have doubled, yet we currently struggle to feed the animals we eat in a sustainable fashion today. Based on Deep Branch Biotechnology's proprietary CO2-to-protein process, the REACT-FIRST consortium will develop feeds with 65-75% smaller ...

Tail biting in growing pigs is affected by many risk factors, but an outbreak can start without warning or obvious cause. This unpredictable tail biting results in pain and sickness for bitten pigs and severe economic losses for farmers: infection through tail wounds results in abattoir condemnation of meat. Tail docking of piglets is partly effective at ...

This collaborative project aims to evaluate the energy and emissions benefits of a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) supplied by Alternatech for urban delivery vehicles, including both articulated and rigid vehicles. The partners include Howdens, Sainsbury’s, Alternatech and Imperial College London. During the trial period, Howdens and Sainsbury’s wil...

The project will aim to develop healthier products within the fresh category that deliver an improved nutritional composition whilst still maintaining great taste and quality. The innovative aspect is the use of cutting edge technology and ingredients without the need for the addition of flavours to deliver reductions in nutrients that are commonly over c...

The current proposal aims to develop a new system for assessment of lamb carcasses that will objectively and more accurately quantify carcass classification and composition. Furthermore, the project aims to develop an alternative pricing model that more closely reflects the retail value of lamb. This system will be based on Imaging technology and will fac...

The realisation of optimal yield and quality from a crop is often dependent upon a complex interaction between the environment and the plant genotype. In the UK and across Europe growers are increasingly producing fruit crops such as strawberries in substrates, rather than in soil and in glasshouses and polytunnels rather than the open field. Despite this...

This project brings together the University of Leeds and Grantham Institute with commercial developers from BioCarbon Tracker and ESRI UK to provide Sainsbury’s with insights into site-specific, multi-parameter environmental risk profiles, both for now and for future forecasting. Risk profiles will combine three categories of data: multiple layers of geos...

Control of soilborne pathogens such as Verticillium wilt has become a major problem in UK horticulture since withdrawal of the broad-spectrum chemical fumigant methyl bromide. A previous project involving the RTO's investigated biofumigant green crops as replacements for methyl bromide. Cultivation and incorporation of biofumigant crops proved difficult, ...

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