Tatton Consulting supported Essex-based sandwich manufacturer Raynor Foods in its successful application to Manufacturing Made Smarter, awarded £3,730,049 by Innovate UK for the project The Digital Sandwich – Digitised Food Supply Chain.
About the funded R&D project
Raynor Foods produces around three million sandwiches a week and served as the industrial site for the Digital Sandwich project, a distributed ledger and IoT demonstrator for food supply chain traceability. Running the trial in a live high-volume production environment rather than a laboratory is what distinguishes the project: the technical question was whether provenance tracking survives real throughput.
Award details
- Total project grant: £3,730,049
- Of which to Raynor Foods: £109,201
- Competition: Manufacturing Made Smarter
- Competition year: 2019/20
- Project: The Digital Sandwich – Digitised Food Supply Chain
- Sector: Food manufacturing / digital supply chain
- Independent verification: Innovate UK funded projects transparency dataset (UKRI), published 10 August 2026
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