Cool and fresh home delivery of meals and groceries
We are ordering more and more food and drinks online and also spending more and more money on this. The growing need of the Dutch modern consumer for ordering convenience and service brings new opportunities for you as an entrepreneur. Whether you are part of a supermarket chain that delivers groceries, a restaurant owner who wants to start delivering meals at home or a farmer who wants to deliver directly to the end user: the opportunities within online food e-commerce are there for the taking. But how do you make sure your carefully prepared products reach your customers fresh? You’ll find out in this article.
Webshop transportation: rise of online food e-commerce
The modern consumer likes convenience and good service. Not only in non-food products such as clothing, books and utensils, but also in food products we see an increase in online orders. For example, spending on online food by Dutch consumers increased by a whopping 24% in 2019.
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That consumers value service and convenience is well known by now. But quality and environmental friendliness are also becoming increasingly important to today’s consumers. And the good news is that they are willing to pay a bit more for this. This is evident from market research conducted by b-open and GfK.
Transporting your products refrigerated: a suitable solution
To keep fresh products “fresh,” refrigerated and frozen transport facilities are often chosen. You may immediately think of a refrigerated or frozen van, but in many cases this does not prove to be the ideal solution. Besides losing a bit of flexibility when you have to reserve the van in advance or depend on availability, this is also not the most sustainable solution. After all, a lot of energy and capacity is quickly wasted when you cannot make optimal use of the space in the van. For example, when the level of your orders to be delivered is unpredictable and irregular, leaving valuable space unused.
For this reason, well-insulated refrigerated packaging is often chosen. This has the advantage that you do not need electricity during transport (you cool the cooling elements to the desired temperature before transport) and that you can transport your products in your preferred means of transport. This often makes it a more sustainable solution for chilled and frozen transport of fresh products such as meals and groceries.
Suitable packaging materials for refrigerated transport
Which packaging materials are most suitable for you depends on your application and logistical choices:
- Transports without a return procedure. When you use an external transportation partner or for some other reason have no possibility to bring back packaging materials, single-use packaging materials are a suitable solution. For this, you can use an EPS box in combination with Gelpacks A more environmentally friendly alternative to the EPS box is the EcoCoolBox.
- Transportation with return procedure. If you have in-house transport facilities and can therefore take back packaging materials, you can choose long-life tools. EPP boxes in combination with strong, dimensionally stable cooling elements are then a godsend. You can place the products to be transported in these during transport in simple packaging, and lift them out of the EPP box when they are delivered to your home. This way, you can reuse the EPP boxes and dimensionally stable cooling elements again and again.
Sustainable solution: the EPP cooler with cooling elements
The EPP box is an insulating cooler made of Expanded Poly Propylene: a 100% recyclable material. The material has a high insulation value, is lightweight and is enormously strong. This guarantees a long service life. Moreover, EPP boxes are practical to use: they are easily stackable, light to move and easy to clean and decontaminate. Handles and sticker fields are also characteristic of the box.
How do you actually put the EPP cooler with cooling elements into use? You pre-cool six cooling plates to your desired temperature. With these you cover the walls and bottom of the cooler, and after placing the products also the top. Now you can transport your fresh products chilled or frozen, for example, for transports of up to 24 hours.
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