Sustainability
sus·tain·a·bil·i·ty:
Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance and preserve nature
Most sustainability plans focus on:
1. Decarbonization
2. Waste Reduction
3. Energy Use
CakeBoxx’s engineering approach is designed to support customers in delivering on all three – and more…
”The regulatory environment is driving increasingly stringent, mandatory requirements; thus, sustainability is now as critical to an organization’s success as profitability and financial performance.
Daine EisoldFounder and CEO, CakeBoxx Technologies
We conceptualize, design, and build comprehensive solutions that are engineered to enable…
Reduced costs, waste, and carbon footprint within your supply chain operations
Access to green shipping modalities and streamlined supply chains
Improved logistics performance, environmental impact, and sustainment
Safer operating environment for your workers
Increased profitability
Accelerated delivery times
Zero Defect deliveries that improve quality and eliminate rework and return shipping
Highly engineered securements and safety locks for safer transport and handling
End-to-end supply chain
sustainability and optimization
CakeBoxx utilizes a “design for sustainability” approach. This enables improvements in operations & profitability, while supporting your organization’s critical sustainability goals.
Decarbonization
Supply chain improvements that are designed to support reduced carbon emissions for cargo owners, BCOs, and 3PLs
Access cheaper, faster, lower carbon transport
Historically, shippers and 3PLs had to rely on limited, costly, and carbon-heavy breakbulk and RORO shipping methods.
CakeBoxx’s specialized supply chain solutions and transport platforms (with or without CakeBoxx’s patented, protective lid) are engineered to enable high-value, high-consequence, large, and unusually sized items to be transported more efficiently. This opens up access to faster, more sustainable shipping options that would not otherwise be available for this type of cargo.
Transport more with less
All CakeBoxx platforms and containers are ultra-strong and engineered to carry significantly more weight than traditional methods. As a result, shippers can maximize cargo volume, densifying the shipment and eliminating wasted space.
This reduces the requirement for additional containers or platforms in any routing, which supports an improved carbon footprint and contributes to decarbonization across the supply chain over time.
This design approach is intended to enable:
Decarbonization of entire supply chains through more efficient cargo movement
Access to faster, less costly, lower-carbon footprint shipping modalities
Fewer containers and transport platforms, reducing raw material and fuel consumption
Elimination of dunnage and dunnage disposal
Zero defect deliveries that eliminate multiple shipments of damaged, replacement, or repaired cargo
CakeBoxx® two-piece standard and specialized containers integrate seamlessly into global supply chains.
Waste Reduction
Tailored securements are designed to eliminate dunnage, reduce costs, and drive sustainability
CakeBoxx’s specialized containers and platforms are both protective and efficient. By eliminating significant dunnage, crating, and non-recyclable packaging materials, and by enabling Zero Defect deliveries, they support a substantial reduction in environmentally damaging waste – as well as reductions in associated CO2 and energy use.
Zero Defect delivery means no need for multiple shipments of damaged, replacement, or repaired cargo, which is a significant advantage for an organization’s value chain.
CakeBoxx’s tailored Perimeter Tie Down System (PTS™)
CakeBoxx Technologies’ specialized securement devices and flush-mounted, heavy-duty D-rings provide a wide array of lashing options to secure any cargo and are an ideal sustainable alternative to wasteful dunnage.
Eliminate Crating and
Reduce Handling
For safer shipments, with less handling
CakeBoxx’s specialized two-piece containers seamlessly integrate into global container logistics.
Historically, large, sensitive, or unusually shaped cargo had to be transported in crates. This is not only costly and wasteful in terms of wood, dunnage, and labor required, but each instance of handling adds complexity, time, cost, and likelihood of damage.
The ideal method of shipping is containerization. CakeBoxx’s engineering enables large, oversized, and hard-to-transport cargo to be containerized – and CakeBoxx works closely with every customer’s team to develop sustainable, optimized supply chain solutions tailored to their specific requirements.
Less Energy Use
Lighter weight, stronger, green transport solutions designed to lower energy use and costs
CakeBoxx’s transportation product line of container and platform solutions is designed for maximum cargo velocity, minimizing the necessity for handling and often reducing touch points. This means forklifts and other handling machinery are designed to spend significantly less time burning fuel in operation. With the 360° easy top and side loading access offered by the deck portion of our two-piece containers (what we call “Approachable Cargo“) the design actively reduces the energy demands of cargo handling throughout the supply chain.
CakeBoxx Technologies has been a pioneer in the use of Vacuum Insulated Panels (VIP) for containers. Insulated versions of our containers use this technology to control temperature excursions for temperature-sensitive cargo. This supports a greener supply chain where cargo can be kept within the required temperature range for the duration of a movement, without costly and energy-intensive mechanical refrigeration equipment.
Circularity and Regenerative Systems
Enabling growth and resilience
What is a circular supply chain?
In a circular supply chain, products and components are reduced to their raw materials state and remade into products that can be sold. This enables manufacturers to deliver the sustainability benefits (environmental, energy, waste, carbon footprint) of recycling while recovering costs and usable materials in the process. The win-win nature of this model is growing in popularity, with virtually all leading global multinational corporations and government regulations driving efforts to improve sustainability efforts and 70% of supply chain leaders planning to invest in the circular economy* (*Gartner 2020 survey on the circular economy).
Regenerative systems and aquaculture
CakeBoxx Technologies is applying its supply chain systems engineering expertise and modular platform technology to transform Regenerative Agriculture and Aquaculture in support of global food sustainability goals.
By applying specialized engineering innovations that have already unlocked significant value in the wind energy, steel, defense, aerospace, and specialty manufacturing markets, CakeBoxx Technologies is now helping to transform the regenerative agriculture and aquaculture industries — delivering fresh, nutritious food supplies locally around the world.
Eight “GEN2 Raceway” regenerative aquaculture platforms stacked
Recycling, Green Steel and Lightweighting
Lighter. Stronger. Green Recapture. Green Recycling.
Green steel is steel with the lowest carbon footprint currently achievable. A green steel circular supply chain starts at steel scrap — enabling efficient capture and collection of discarded steel at the end of its life, then transporting and remaking it into sellable steel using a significantly lower-emissions process. This enables businesses to deliver the environmental and energy benefits of recycling while offsetting costs in the process.
CakeBoxx’s specialized containers and platforms for the steel industry are optimized for all modes of upstream and downstream transport, and are lighter and stronger than conventional alternatives — delivering highly efficient supply chain velocity to and from recycling and manufacturing locations.
These solutions are designed to enable steel to be collected, transported, and recycled more efficiently, faster, and at lower cost than previously available methods.
CakeBoxx’s ongoing materials initiatives include:
- Matrixx™ composite panels — steel-free composite construction panels developed for the Matrixx™ CakeBoxx container are for applicable for various container variants, eliminating the carbon and weight associated with steel fabrication in those components.
- USS VerdeX low-carbon steel — CakeBoxx can supply U.S. Steel’s VerdeX steel, produced via Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) process, which significantly reduces carbon emissions compared to conventional blast-furnace steel production.
According to
The World Economic Forum…
”Producing steel from secondary source steel scrap with clean electricity results in a very low-emitting circular material. This bodes well for steel as the world transitions to a carbon-neutral circular economy, as steel will be increasingly favoured over other materials in overlapping applications with less circular and less carbon-neutral potential.
”…based on the circularity and carbon-neutral credentials of scrap-based steel, we should strive towards even higher recovery rates
”Steel has excellent circularity properties. Whereas other materials are often downcycled at their end of life, for many applications, steel scrap can be turned back repeatedly into new steel, retaining its original properties.
Source: World Economic Forum: What is steel scrap and how can it help us reach net zero?
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