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Belgium-based ingredients supplier COSUCRA helps customers to be the best option on the shelf, ready to meet new dietary needs and consumption trends worldwide. CEO Eric Bosly discussed sustainable operations and the drive towards Net Zero.

Sustainability is a strong ingredient within operations at COSUCRA. After a long journey, COSUCRA’s belief in having a strong CSR plan and working hard to implement it has borne fruit with the award of B Corp certification.

“In the field of CSR, there are numerous certifications, more or less well-known, more or less serious, more or less difficult,” explained CEO Eric Bosly. “We decided to go for the one we felt had the best international reputation. This certification process took almost two years and has reviewed in depth all our processes focusing on evidence, indicators and not on slogans.”

On a busy packaging line, an alert flags a label change. It’s the fourth notification that shift, buried among others, in a language the operators don’t read fluently. They miss it. The impact: hours of rework and thousands of euros of waste cost. Was it a technology failure? No. An operator failure? Not really either. What failed was everything around it. Raf Swinnen, business development lead at Maecos, and Evelien Taillieu, senior consultant and connected worker specialist at delaware, explain why people, not platforms, are what actually cuts food waste, or lets it slide. 

You pay twice for every raw material that doesn't make the cut. Once to process it, and again to dispose of it. The same goes for the water, energy, and chemicals lost along the way. Most food manufacturers know waste hurts. Few know exactly where on the line it comes from.

Belgian start-ups Polysense and Liquisens help you see where. Together with delaware, you stop losses before they turn into waste. On your line, that means you can:

• Catch quality deviations while there's still time to act, so less product gets rejected
• Know right away if a cleaning cycle worked, instead of waiting a day or two for a lab result
• Avoid lost batches and costly shutdowns
• Deliver stable output quality with less manual checking on the floor
• Cut chemical use by around 24% and energy costs by 17% in your cleaning processes

Curious where your biggest losses are? Fight Food Waste Week helps you find out.

Every marketer already knows the punchline. Customers want authentic, personalized, effortless communications. The business wants it to convert: pipeline, revenue, and retention, not just likes and opens. To get there, marketing teams push harder: more sends, sharper copy, one more channel. And still, the numbers won’t cooperate. Somewhere along the line, they hit a ‘performance plateau’: teams are using the most powerful technology marketing has ever had to send more generic messages.