Sustainability of the Juice IndustryCIBUS TEC, 23rd October 2019, Parma, Italy

David Berryman – CEO David Berryman Limited

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Does the fruit juice industry

have a future?

Is it sustainable?

In the Future

• Enough fruit?

• Carbon footprint?

• Packaging?

Enough fruit?

Brazil

Genetic engineering

is a key solution to

diseases of trees

Fruit grows on trees

A quick reminder…

Carbon footprint

Making orange juice concentrate

Making apple juice concentrate

10kWh for 1 tonne AJC

7kWh for 1 tonne FCOJ

Approximately !!

Fruit juice production costs

• 30–35% cultivating and processing

• 65-70% packaging and local distribution

• Plus long-haul transport

AJC Carbon footprint

500,000 tonnes AJC produces 16-20m tonnes CO2

Plus ancillary costs of about 30m tonnes CO2

Make and consume more

domestically grown fruit juice

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Packaging

Packaging

Children are taught

• Reduce packaging

• Re-use packaging

• Recycle packaging

What does the industry say?

• Re-usable packaging

• Recycling packaging

• Compostable packaging

compostable

Glass

Plastic

Aluminium

Paper

Re-usable Recyclable Compostable

Bottles and cartons

have made fruit juices into a

huge global industry

906,000,000,000 Litres

$170,000,000,000

In 2018:

Plastic bottles

1 million single-use plastic bottles sold worldwide every …

Plastic Bottles

minute= 525,600,000,000 bottles per year

Welcome to

The Blame Game

15,000 plastic bottles every minute

Who is the polluter?

Who makes plastic?

Petrochemical Industry

Petrochemical Industry

Non-edible bioplastics

Oxygen Barrier

CO2 Barrier

Water Barrier

Strength

PET

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

PEF

10 x better

5 x better

2 x better

1.5 x better

PET compared to PEF

Hot fill 74˚- 79˚C 86˚- 87˚C

Blow mold 234˚- 265˚C 213˚- 235˚C

Science caused the problem -

science HAS the answers

…all it needs is money

Thank you

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