IBM Nutrient Trust blockchain platform has onboarded one more than French manufacturer seeking to enhance transparency of production provenance and supply chain.

The Avril Group, a vegetable oil, eggs and poly peptide manufacturer, and the owner of brands Matines and Lesieur, has begun using IBM Food Trust network to ensure traceability of its products, according to a Feb. 4 press release.

Improving corporate social responsibility and client experience

Past applying blockchain, the Avril Grouping expects to make improvements in its corporate social responsibility, especially when it comes to sectors such every bit quality livestock and the consideration of animal welfare.

Matines is looking to advance customer experience, providing greater transparency through a QR code printed within the egg box, which directs customers to an application containing a wide range of information related to the eggs they consume —  from the style the hens are fed to the appointment of acceleration to the warehouses of the distributors.

Nutrient producers actively comprehend blockchain

In January, CHO, 1 of the largest olive oil producers in the southern Mediterranean, announced that it is using IBM's blockchain engineering science to provide traceability for its Terra Delyssa extra virgin olive oil. Speaking with Cointelegraph on the development, vice president of IBM Blockchain Supply Chain Solutions, Ramesh Gopinath, said:

"The best part of the IBM Nutrient Trust network is its ability to connect members of the supply concatenation together, similar the terminate consumer with the farmer. CHO has washed just this, as every entity involved can share data, which non merely provides traceability and nutrient data, but also shows where nutrient trust is heading in general."

Food manufacturers take been actively pursuing blockchain adoption, in recent months. Retail giants Carrefour and Nestlé began using IBM's Food Trust blockchain platform to rail the supply concatenation of milk-based formula for infants, final November. The firms thus aim to advance consumer confidence in production quality.

That same month, Singapore-based blockchain application platform VeChain unveiled a new blockchain tracking organisation for the food and beverage industry. The company had worked with food certification group DNV GL and supply chain specialist ASI Group on the project, known as Foodgates.