Innovating Supply Chains with Sustainable Plastic Bulk Bins
In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving market landscape, innovation is the key to maintaining a competitive edge in the supply chain sector.
This can take various forms. Whether it’s product advancements or cutting-edge technological integrations, our R&D team is continually delivering enhancements across our product line, including our plastic bulk bins. Through continuous product and tech improvement, our bulk bins can increase your throughput, reduce downtime, ensure bottom-line savings and help you with your sustainability goals– all at the same time.
Product innovation, automation-ready design, and unparalleled food safety measures, make our reusable plastic bulk containers the best option to future-proof your supply chain. Here’s how our Superior Hybrid and other plastic bulk bins can transform your operations.
Streamlined Operations
At Tosca, we don’t just focus on transporting products from A to B – we want to transform the supply chain. Efficiency is key, and plastic bulk bins streamline operations to revolutionize processes.
The Superior Hybrid is foldable for efficient storage when not in use. In fact, all our bulk bins come with collapsible sides so they can be assembled and disassembled with ease. They’re designed for simple stacking and moveability, and they don’t need to be disposed of like corrugated counterparts – meaning your employees have a much more streamlined working environment. With 182 folded empty units fitting on a truck versus just 26 rigid alternatives, our solution is 7x more efficient, offering greater stacking compared to a corrugated combination on a pallet.
In the pursuit of supply chain innovation, we offer an Asset IQ solution. Traceability and visibility give you more control over your operations. They’ll find efficiencies and relieve bottlenecks that lead to improved performance.
By integrating IoT technology, our bulk bins can provide real-time insights into critical factors such as location, temperature, vibration, and humidity, ensuring product quality throughout the supply chain. This not only allows for quality monitoring, but also enhances overall efficiency by optimizing routes, reducing food waste, and predicting equipment failures before they disrupt operations.
Additionally, this minimizes CO₂ emissions through better routing, minimizing food waste from damage, and monitoring energy usage to lower your environmental footprint.
Innovative Sustainability
Our commitment to sustainability doesn’t come at the end of our innovation process. It’s the starting point. We don’t sacrifice being green just to keep up with technologies or innovate for our clients. That’s why our bulk bins are crafted from durable, high-quality plastic that’s not only reusable but also 100% recyclable at the end of its lifecycle.
Bailing of corrugated counterparts can be costly and inconvenient, therefore they’re rarely recycled properly. Additionally, corrugated is a one-time use, whereas reusables are used hundreds of times before being recycled. By replacing single-use packaging with these reusable bins, businesses can reduce their carbon footprint by 66% and send zero waste to landfill.
Another simple way to understand the impact of switching to reusables is through a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This evaluates a product’s environmental impact from production to disposal, helping you make informed packaging decisions by identifying improvement areas and highlighting stages with the highest environmental impact for targeted sustainability efforts.
An LCA also provides data on the environmental advantages of reusable packaging over single-use options. This can help both with stakeholder communication and in guiding purchases, as you can compare the environmental impacts of different packaging solutions to align with your sustainability goals.
Bottom-line Savings
Compared to their single-use counterparts, our plastic bulk bins offer substantial cost savings and are a more sustainable choice for your supply chain – making you green and saving you green.
Their durability and longevity mean fewer replacements and reduced packaging expenses in the long run. The streamlined design also maximizes storage space, optimizing transportation efficiency and reducing fuel consumption.
Because bulk bins fold, they allow more empties to be transported on trucks, which lowers transport costs (182 folded empties versus 26 rigid alternatives), and they also offer greater storage efficiency, as they stack more than twice as high as corrugated bins, reducing floor space usage.
Corrugated cardboard can be prone to box failure from contamination, automation mishandling, or unstable stacking. In contrast, the Superior Hybrid eliminates the risk of product leakage, features a standard footprint, and is both automation-ready and safely stackable.
Product Innovation
At Tosca, our dedicated in-house R&D department is constantly innovating. This talented team works to enhance our product portfolio, ensuring our offerings meet the evolving needs of the supply chain industry. By continuously improving our products, we make sure our clients always have access to the latest advancements and innovations.
Take the Superior Hybrid, for example, a food-grade foldable 500 or 1000-liter container. It’s suitable for low and high viscosity liquid products and has five different sealable exit and entry points. Once sealed, the product inside is impossible to access. The container features three runners for easy handling with a pallet jack or forklift, and a bottom discharge to minimize residual product. It also has a low drop door design to simplify the filling process. Filling and discharging dry and liquid products is made much easier and quicker with no mess.
But it’s not just the Superior Hybrid – innovation is at the heart of our entire product line. Our plastic bulk bins are standard-sized and automation-ready. Because they’re molded, the sizes and weights will always be consistent, eliminating disturbances from the automated handling systems. This means your operations can run smoothly with few to no hiccups along the way. You’ll spend less time reconfiguring machines and less money on low-value labor.
Whether it’s through refining existing designs or developing entirely new solutions, our R&D department is at the forefront of creating products that deliver superior performance, efficiency, and sustainability. With Tosca, you’re not just getting a product – you’re gaining a partner in innovation, dedicated to future-proofing your supply chain.
Food Safety Reimagined
Our plastic bulk bins are engineered with food-grade materials and adhere to stringent sanitation protocols, guaranteeing products remain untainted throughout the supply chain journey. The Superior Hybrid is made of easy-to-clean, food-grade polymer that’s resistant to moisture, insects, and fungi, and liners provide a sterile barrier for aseptic filling. This ensures secure containment once it’s filled, reducing the risk of leakage, contamination from debris and minimal product waste.
A single small piece of debris can compromise the integrity of your goods, leading to costly waste and quantity shortages due to QA failures. Similarly, an entire vat can pose a risk of customer harm and reputational damage if an ingredient contains a microscopic mold spore from the corrugated box it was stored in. This is where our Superior Hybrid changes the game.
With its drop wall design, you don’t need to cut into the side for visibility and access to the products that can’t be removed by a tipper. Skipping the step of cutting out an access point saves time, prevents product damage and debris from the box cutter. Plus, it’s safer for employees.
Our pooled reusable plastic bulk bins are non-porous, and cleaned at the most rigid food safety standards in the industry, ensuring you avoid such risks. With pooled reusable assets, we follow a stringent washing process that involves 564 process documents to meticulously outline each step. Before washing, assets undergo a pre-wash phase. Then, they’re thoroughly inspected, with a subsequent re-inspection taking place seven steps later.
We carefully maintain water temperatures within a five-degree variance to guarantee food-safe sanitization and regularly measure adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels every three hours to detect any organic matter.
By doing all of the above, we ensure that while we stay ahead of the curve with innovation, we also prioritize food safety within your supply chain. We innovate and ensure this by keeping your products protected and preserved well.
We’ll Partner With You to Innovate
Our commitment to transforming supply chains goes beyond mere product offerings – it encompasses a holistic approach to efficiency, sustainability, and operational excellence. Our plastic bulk bins eliminate common issues associated with traditional packaging, while introducing advanced features that streamline operations, enhance food safety, and optimize resource use.
From our dedicated R&D efforts to our robust IoT and AI technologies, we provide solutions designed to revolutionize your supply chain. Switching to our reusable plastic bulk containers isn’t just a step toward sustainability – it’s a leap into a future of efficiency and innovation. Let’s work together to modernize your supply chain and set new standards for excellence in the industry.
