Food waste tech expands, skills program advances, and hospitals improve transparency in Mexico and Latin America
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Chilean FoodTech UNK expanded its operations to Mexico, bringing a platform that monitors temperature and humidity throughout the food supply chain.
The company aims to replace manual checks with continuous measurements and alerts, hoping to reduce the over 20.4 million tons of food Mexico loses annually, about 34 percent of its production. UNK already serves over 2,500 temperature monitoring points and 50 clients in Chile, including major companies like Sodexo and Domino’s Pizza.
Francisco Cuevas will lead the Mexican operations, targeting food, retail, restaurant, logistics, and storage industries. In a separate development, twenty young people from several Mexican states, Jalisco, Michoacán, Chiapas, and Yucatán, completed the 2026 Labor Skills Development Program. ExxonMobil Mexico and COMEXUS coordinated the four-week intensive training at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on artificial intelligence, data analysis, leadership, and global skills.
ExxonMobil Mexico’s president, Solid Pérez, emphasized the program’s goal of giving national talent access to international academic experiences. Meanwhile, a ranking of Latin American hospitals, the IntelLat Ranking of Best Hospitals and Clinics, revealed that hospitals which publicly share their performance data gain efficiency and credibility. Nine private hospitals in Mexico stood out in the study for having lower bed and operating room occupancy rates than the regional average, shorter hospital stays, and better profitability.
These hospitals achieved a 9.1 percent profit margin on sales, nearly double the 5.1 percent average for Latin American hospitals. Finally, residents of the Cuxtitali neighborhood in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, regained access to consistent water service after 18 months. A collaborative project involving Coca-Cola FEMSA, local authorities, community organizations, and residents built a well capable of delivering up to 432,000 liters of water daily, serving around 90 percent of the community.
