NEXE Innovations Inc (TSX-V:NEXE, OTC:NEXNF) said it has onboarded and produced its Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI)-certified compostable, single-serve coffee pods for U.S.-based Rooted Grounds Coffee, its third co-manufacturing customer.
Ohio-based Rooted Grounds Coffee Company is a craft coffee company whose customers include hospitals, senior living communities, hotels, restaurants, retail stores, universities and car dealerships across 22 states, the company said.
“We are absolutely thrilled to introduce NEXE's exciting new compostable product to all our customers (including those in distribution with US Foods and Sysco (NYSE:SYY)), as they have been asking for this and we can finally deliver,” Rooted Grounds Coffee Company CEO Dr. Patsy Knopf said.
“Rooted Grounds Coffee Company's partnership with NEXE will help improve sustainability in each community we serve."
NEXE said it has also completed shipping of its product to Neighborhood Café, one of its previously announced partners.
"This is an exciting period for NEXE as interest grows for our proprietary NEXE pod,” NEXE president Ash Guglani said in a statement.
“We continue to build our operations in Windsor as we are engaged in several active discussions with local artisanal brands and larger coffee companies.”
Further, NEXE said it has completed the transition of its own retail brand NEXE Coffee, being produced at its Windsor, Ontario, facility, to its BPI-certified single-serve coffee pods.
NEXE is a leader in innovative compostable materials technology based in Ontario, Canada. Its first product is one of the only patented, fully compostable, single-serve coffee pods for use in existing major single-serve coffee machines.
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