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Alternative transport modes, fuels, packing materials & end-to-end services.

Automated human tasks, and automated product handling with small changeover time.

CPF Thailand is looking for a renewable energy solution for their farms and factories. The solution has to be able to generate or store enough energy to power the farm and factory for 24 hours a day with a sound financial feasibility. This aligns with the group’s holding policy to help CP Group achieve carbon neutrality.

Objectives:

To identify a renewable energy solution to power their farms and factories.

CPF Thailand has identified the following potential solutions to their problem but is open to all other ideas.

• Installing a wind turbine to generate larger amounts of renewable energy
• Installing an energy storage system to store enough energy to power their farms and factories throughout the day.

Working Model:

After partnering with selected startups, CPF Thailand will test solutions and co-develop a prototype or a POC before testing the solution at scale in a real environment to measure its business impact.

As part of the Capitaland Master Sustainability Plan, The Ascott is committed to reducing water and energy use over the next few years. There is an increasing need for the group to find solutions that can address the needs of the properties that Ascott operates globally. The properties range from Serviced Residences, Rental Housing, Hotels, Senior Living Estates and Student Accommodations.

Objectives:

To find a solution that will help Ascott-operated properties reduce water and/or energy usage.

Working Model:

If possible, a charging model based on a revenue share where the vendor takes a cut out of the savings made from the utility bill. Allowing properties to implement easily without incurring large upfront CAPEX.

As part of the Capitaland Master Sustainability Plan, Ascott is committed to reducing waste over the next few years. There is an increasing need for the group to find solutions that can address the needs of the properties that Ascott operates globally. The properties range from Serviced Residences, Rental Housing, Hotels, Senior Living Estates and Student Accommodations.

Objectives:

Because each Ascott property is on average 200 rooms, and does not operate F&B, the scale of the property does not justify the purchase of expensive equipment that costs tens of thousands of dollars.

The Ascott is looking for a solution that will help Ascott-operated properties with at least two out of four of the following:

• Waste Measurement
• Waste Tracking
• Recycling
• Waste Reduction

Working Model:

The solution should be lightweight and if possible, offered on the as-a-service model.

Objectives:

To identify opportunities within the global availability of more than 1 billion tonnes of agrifood by-products (such as husks, hulls, bran, germ, etc) being under-valorised in terms of nutrients or components and going to waste.

Working Model:

Bühler group has identified three key opportunity areas

• Component extract
  • By using a process or technology that can extract valuable components from by-products of agro-industrial food processes
• Direct nutrient recovery
  • Upcycling the micro and macronutrients from by-products through an applied process or technology into new food products such as alternative meat/dairy, savoury/sweet snacks or others
• Energy or heat recovery
  • Novel processes which can efficiently recover the energy value of low-value byproducts

Indorama Ventures is currently building the recycling infrastructure to close to loop for PET bottles. By using used PET bottles as a feedstock to make new bottles, this increases the value for these waste products and in turn de-risks investments in collection and sorting.

Objectives:

Indorama Ventures would like to explore innovative approaches which can address the following problems:

• Creating a higher demand for fully traceable plastic feedstock from ethical sources
• Increasing the amount of funding committed to waste management solutions
• Improving market segmentation by waste type
• Increasing the amount of long-term plastic off-take agreements between large buyers of plastic feedstock and waste collection entities

Currently, TES receives a large amount of electrical and electronic equipment in their original packing in pallets or boxes. These pallets need to be unpacked and sorted into unique waste streams.

Some unique products will then have to be further de-manufactured, disassembled or dismantled into their individual components materials which may involve the removal of casings, screws, etc.

The current process is manual and labour intensive, and therefore time consuming, costly and error prone. The effectiveness and efficiency are also currently heavily dependent on the competence and capability of individuals.

Objectives:

TES would like to explore automating whole or part of the current process to improve efficiency. As there is a broad range of non-homogenous packaging, materials and products received, they are looking to define a standard process for this.

TES has identified some potential solutions to this problem.

1. Can the unpacking process use robotics to unpack and de-box?
2. Can the unpacked materials and products be automatically sorted based on material type, and value? Consulting up to date pricing of the materials would increase value recovery.
3. Can robotics and artificial intelligence be used during the de-manufacture process?
4. Can we also use robotics to manage sortation of the packaging materials?
5. Since removing screws from cases and interior is one of the most common de-manufacturing tasks, could a robotic system be developed that identifies the screws and removes them?