BluWrap

BluWrap supplies patented and FDA-approved packaging technology to increase the shelf life of proteins be it fish or beef. Shelf-life for chilled salmon can be extended up to 40 days, and pork up to 90 days.

Earlier fish were transported on ice in polystyrene containers, and delays meant food wastage, and the parcel was a pollutant that didn’t degrade for hundreds of years. Bluwrap is a game-changer for fresh protein supply chains worldwide. Instead of using expensive airfreight to avoid food wastage, suppliers can now use ships and cut costs and still deliver fresh food. Moreover, carbon dioxide emitted per metric ton of freight per kilometer of transportation by air is 500g, compared to only 10-40g by sea. So, this can act as a way to fight climate change as well.

Bluwrap uses its patented, oxygen management techniques to create and maintain an all-natural, controlled atmosphere environment that suspends time so that fresh fish and other proteins can be transported virtually anywhere in the world without the need for ice, environmentally harmful polystyrene, or expensive airfreight. As the cell has sensors the level of temperature and oxygen can be tracked in real time. This also increases transparency during transport.

Based in San Francisco, California, they operate across the globe. In 2013 BluWrap entered the logistics market and began shipping full containers of commercial fresh protein shipments to and from Belgium, Chile, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Panama, and the USA. Rabobank recognizes BluWrap for Revolutionizing Fresh Protein Supply Chains Worldwide (2016). The company is repeatedly in the News, both mainstream and business.