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Intelleflex Honored as a "Top Green Provider" for Delivering Sustainability Solutions for the Food Industry
SANTA CLARA, CA, Jun 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Intelleflex, a leading provider of on-demand data visibility
solutions, announced today it has been named a "Top Green Provider"
by Food Logistics Magazine. The editors of Food Logistics recognize
and award companies whose products, services, or exemplary leadership
enhance sustainability within the food and beverage industry. The
judges focused on solution providers that embrace environmental best
practices as central to their operations, and in doing so, play a key
role in their customers' efforts to reduce waste and negative impact
on the environment while helping to advance awareness throughout the
cold supply chain.
Intelleflex provides on-demand data visibility for partner solutions
that enhance sustainability and reduce waste throughout the cold
supply chain. With the cost of annual food waste totaling
approximately $35 billion globally -- one-third of gross production
value -- Intelleflex-based solutions help reduce food waste by
enabling cold chain suppliers to improve the delivered freshness of
perishable foods to retailers by ensuring that those foods have
sufficient remaining shelf life -- reducing or eliminating the losses
of entire pallet loads of perishables and maximizing delivered yield.
Last year, Intelleflex and ProWare Services, conducted a case study
with an international berry grower that showed how adopting
Intelleflex's on-demand RFID temperature monitoring products provided
suppliers with actionable data to reduce food waste and help minimize
environmental impact associated with that waste. The wireless access
to the pallet-level temperature data, based on EPC and ISO standards,
enables improved workflow and reduced labor in managing product
quality. Through pallet-level temperature monitoring, Intelleflex
systems improved delivered quality from the field to the pack house,
in the pre-cool phase, and from pack house to retail distribution
through the use of prioritized routing. The actionable data captured
by Intelleflex temperature-monitoring devices enabled the berry
grower to build pallets of uniform berry quality, prioritize
shipments, and to quickly reroute perishables based on their relative
remaining shelf life.
By wasting less and optimizing logistics operations, Intelleflex
products can prevent a series of negative impacts on the environment.
According to the United Nations Environment Program, "wasting food is
not only an inefficient use of ecosystem services [like water] and of
the fossil fuel-based resources that go into producing them, but also
a significant contributor to global warming. In the USA, organic
waste is the second highest component of landfills, which are the
largest source of methane emissions." By helping to maximize
delivered yield, Intelleflex enables producers and suppliers to feed
more people with the same quantity of food originally produced, while
also reducing the use of water, pesticide, fertilizer and fuel that
would otherwise be required to increase production. Additionally,
growers waste fewer natural resources by reducing supply chain
inefficiencies.
"Sustainability in the supply chain continues to evolve as more
companies recognize the necessity for environmental conservation,
while new technologies are making it easier to adopt and quantify
sustainable practices," noted Lara L. Sowinski, editor-in-chief at
Food Logistics, the only publication dedicated exclusively to the
grocery and food service distribution supply chain. "The companies on
this year's list have proven that making a commitment to
sustainability in their operations not only delivers a measurable
return on investment, but gives them a competitive advantage in the
marketplace and in the eyes of their customers."
"It's a great honor to be recognized by Food Logistics as a Top Green
Provider and receive acknowledgment that on-demand, actionable data
can help reduce waste and improve resource utilization throughout the
cold chain," said Peter Mehring, president and CEO, Intelleflex.
"Working with our partners, we are enabling cold chain suppliers to
capture and share actionable data about the condition of fresh food
-- from the field to the retailer -- helping them maximize delivered
yield and quality while minimizing the impact on the environment."
The benefits of actionable data in the supply chain have also been
recognized by the insurance industry. The Hartford Financial Services
Group, a leading provider of insurance and wealth management services
for millions of consumers and businesses worldwide, which has a
strategic alliance with Intelleflex, has also been recognized for its
sustainability efforts. The Hartford was recognized in 2011 by
Newsweek Magazine as the 12th greenest company in America, ahead of
all other financial services companies. The company has also been
named to the Carbon Disclosure Project's Carbon Disclosure Leadership
Index for the last four years in a row and to the Environmental
Protection Agency's EPA Green Power Partnership Top Partner rankings
(Fortune 500(R) Partner category, 2012). More information on The
Hartford's commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship
is available in the company's Statement on Climate Change and
Sustainability Report.
About Intelleflex
Intelleflex(R) provides on-demand, data visibility solutions for cold
chain and asset management. Its industry-leading XC3 Technology(TM)
RFID products based on ISO and EPCglobal standards enable a range of
solutions for fresh produce, perishable food, and pharmaceutical
temperature monitoring, asset tracking, personnel monitoring, retail,
healthcare and other applications. These real-time monitoring
solutions can help organizations reduce shrink or loss, more closely
track and manage assets, reduce cost of operations, and increase
profitability. For more information, visit www.intelleflex.com.
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Contact:
Kevin Payne
Senior Director of Marketing
Intelleflex
(408) 200-6567
kpayne@intelleflex.com
Clara Andres
Trainer Communications
(925) 271-8210
Pr-intelleflex@trainercomm.com
SOURCE: Intelleflex
mailto:kpayne@intelleflex.com
mailto:Pr-intelleflex@trainercomm.com
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