Food and beverage manufacturers are looking to streamline their packaging and distribution to reduce freight miles, manual labor, and emissions.
Industrial automation startup Sojo offers robotic packaging systems for customer sites, avoiding the need to ship products to third-party co-packers. Sojo also operates its own national network of sorting facilities.
The Pennsylvania-based company’s blockchain-based track-and-trace geolocation software provides real-time supply chain insights.
“As complexity grows, brands need more agility,” said Matthew Walker of S2G Investments, the investment firm spun out of Builders Vision. “Traditional workflows, marked by multiple handoffs and limited visibility, are no longer sustainable.”
Industrial emissions
Sojo’s products have helped Fortune 500 food and beverage clients, such as global food supplier Schreiber Foods, eliminate more than five million freight miles and the emissions they would have generated.
Freight transportation makes up 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and as much as 11% if warehouses and ports are included.
Sojo has multiple packaging facilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California and Texas. The company also has mobile manufacturing sites in Indiana, Colorado and Utah.
