Materials & Waste
Reducing waste by 20-50%
Newton has a proven record of identifying and exploiting opportunities for improving material yields and reducing wastage. Some losses are very visible; others from giveaway, cooking loss or drain waste, may not be so obvious – but all have the potential to deliver significant financial benefit from recovery.
We’re experts in analysing material variance figures and linking these with actual production processes. Variance opportunities are broken down by problem, location and product to provide clarity to the project team. Rigorous and detailed problem solving then reduces the variances, whilst the appropriate reporting measures are developed to ensure that key problem areas are permanently visible to the entire organisation.
Over and above technical and organisational improvements to reduce giveaway, waste, cooking losses and drain losses, we also help manufacturers find more innovative solutions to improve material variances. Our approach of rigorous analysis, problem solving and measurement is well suited to the implementation of value engineering to create a step change in cost.
Our work delivers substantial bottom-line improvements from practical, sustainable solutions. We’ve delivered 32% waste reduction in a bakery to create savings of £680k, cut £1 million worth of giveaway, downgrade and waste for a cheese packing company, saved £280,000 in chocolate overuse for a biscuit manufacturer, and recovered £1 million by improving cooking yields for a chilled and frozen food producer. All without the need for capital expenditure.