GII is Ireland’s leading dairy ingredients company – processing 1.6 billion litres of milk or 30% of Ireland’s milk pool into a range of dairy ingredients for export to more than 50 countries. The new plant will incorporate two 7.5 tonnes per hour dryers and have an output of 100,000 tonnes of dairy powders per annum.

All produce from the new facility will be destined for export markets. Construction is set to commence on 17 May and the new facility is expected to begin production in Spring 2015. 

The scale and scope of Belview is extremely ambitious. As the dairy industry purchases 90% of its inputs from the domestic economy, there will be a maximum impact on the income of farm families – boosting the rural economy and the local industries that will service on-farm expansion.

GIIL enjoys strong commercial relationships, including contract manufacturing with eight other Irish dairy processors. This new scalable facility will provide platforms for further collaboration in the industry. 

Jim Bergin, chief executive of GII, says: “The Belview facility is a significant, strategic development for our business. Most of all it reflects our confidence in, and commitment to our 4,300 milk suppliers. By providing this additional processing capacity we will be facilitating milk suppliers in their ambition to avail of the opportunity presented by quota abolition post 2015. We are very pleased that through Enterprise Ireland, the Government is acknowledging the economic contribution of the Belview project.”

He adds: “The Belview plant will be entirely focused on export markets and will supply a range of nutritional powders to an increasing number of regions including the Middle East, Africa, Central America and Asia.”

Smurfit Kappa the European leader in innovative paper based packaging has announced a major investment package consisting of a six-colour flexographic, rotary die-cut press, an enhanced material handling system and corrugator upgrades for its Yate, Bristol plant.

The main investment is part of Smurfit Kappa’s continuing development of its High-Quality Post Print service at the BRC and AIB certified site. Supplying a wide range of customers in the South of England, as well as major national brands and Pan-European customers, Smurfit Kappa Yate has drawn from the knowledge and experience of award winning HQPP, six-colour printing expertise at other Smurfit Kappa UK plants.

Beyond the new machine outlay Smurfit Kappa Yate is upgrading the plant’s material handling system for greater accuracy and reliability, and and when combined with modular enhancements on the corrugator will drive additional improvements in quality and service at the high volume site.

Clive Bowers, CEO Smurfit Kappa UK, explains what the investment is designed to deliver and why it has been undertaken; “We listen continuously to our customers and ask how we can help them achieve their future business objectives. The decorative corrugated market continues to outperform the general market and our customers and potential customers have asked us to leverage our skills in print into the wider corrugated market. Our investment at Yate allows our customers to source the highest quality post print, flexographic packaging and differentiate their products from their competitors in an increasingly competitive marketplace.”

Terry McGivern, Regional Director for Smurfit Kappa South, comments; “Our long-standing expertise of producing award winning HQPP in the UK gives us a unique advantage when working with demanding print requirements on corrugated. Moreover, Yate has had an excellent year in quality and service with complaints per million items produced running at less than one in a million and On time in Full delivery (OTIF) exceeding 98%.. These three investments will help us to improve our industry-leading statistics and provide a compelling case for any customer who needs to source the highest quality, combined with superior service and superb printed corrugated, to look no further than Smurfit Kappa Yate.”?

Nationally renowned Clegg Food Projects, which provides solutions for major food operations all over the country, was awarded the contract to increase output at Fletchers Bakeries’ Sheffield site.

John Moxon, business development director at Clegg Food Projects, said: “We’re delighted to have completed the work to boost production for our client.

“It is reassuring that we have continued to secure a number of significant contracts such as this in the current, difficult financial climate.  We have completed many similar projects to this scheme which meant our experience and expertise was ideally suited to carry out the work to the very highest standards.

“At Clegg Food Projects we ensure that we can provide our clients with a range of design, engineering and specialist construction and consultancy solutions.  Therefore, we can ensure that we can help our clients, or potential clients, whatever stage they are at with their project,” John added.

The work on the Sheffield site involved converting an existing de-commissioned freezer area to increase production capacity for the bakery.  There was demolition work involved and modifications to the car park and vehicle entrances were also part of the project.

Operations continued on site as the work took place to improve manufacturing and boost output.

Fletchers Bakeries has four UK locations and has a turnover of more than £100 million.  It produces and supplies the highest quality products – both fresh and frozen – that are distributed to major high street retailers and foodservice customers.  Fletchers Bakeries has strong relationships with the most high-profile retail companies in the sector.

Clegg Food Projects is a nationally known designer, constructor and engineer of food manufacturing facilities with more than 30 years’ experience in the sector. Clegg Food Projects is a national company and part of the Clegg Group.

These include a £200 million investment to transform its Product Technology Centre for confectionery in York, UK in 2012. In the same year, Nestlé also invested SFr54 million to extend its Purina factory in Hungary, SFr300 million to build a new Nespresso factory in Switzerland, and SFr265 million in a new Nescafe Dolce Gusto factory in Germany.

“The Buxton factory is an excellent example of how we are continuing to invest in Europe despite tough economic conditions,” says Paul Bulcke, chief executive of Nestlé. “This factory will contribute to accelerate the development of our bottled water activities and illustrate our capacity for innovation in production facilities via an approach that combines strong and sustainable production efficiency with outstanding environmental performances.”

Bottled water plays an important role in Nestlé’s nutrition, health and wellness strategy emphasizing that water should be the preferred healthy hydration option and is an important factor against the growing problem of obesity.

The new factory is Nestlé’s most recent multi-million pound investment in the UK. The company recently invested £40 million over the past few years to create a European centre of excellence for Nescafe Cappuccino in Cumbria.

Last year, Nestlé also announced a £310 million investment in its coffee manufacturing business in Tutbury, Derbyshire, creating 425 new jobs.

The 122m cargoship berthed alongside the former conventional ferry (mail) boat Carlisle Pier, from where the cargo will be taken by road convoy, but travelling overnight to avoid traffic and minimise disruption.

This delivery is part of a ‘project’ cargo as a further two shipments are scheduled, however it has been many years since cargoships have called to Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

In the late 1980′s/early 90′s there were relatively frequent calls undertaken by ‘reefer’ ships, vessels equipped with refrigeration capability carrying perishable products.

Some vessels were instead of the ro-ro design, this allowed refrigerated freight-trailers to be driven onboard the ship which berthed at the port’s ferry ramp linkspan.

The three projects involve extending an existing factory in Newport, South Wales and altering the layout of two chicken processing sites in Norfolk and in Devon.

Clegg Food Projects has already worked with 2 Sisters Food Group over the last couple of years on two similar projects.

Nationally renowned Clegg Food Projects, which provides solutions for major food operations all over the UK, is set to complete all of the work in mid-2013.

John Moxon, business development director at Clegg Food Projects, said: “We are thrilled to be working once again with 2 Sisters Food Group.  We’ve built up a fantastic relationship with the company and hope to be involved in many more of their future projects.

“Our considerable experience in a huge variety of schemes across the food and drink sectors means we’re ideally placed to carry out the work required through this contract.

“The work will involve Clegg Food Projects improving the general production facilities by altering and extending the existing factories. The schemes at all three of the sites will boost production for 2 Sisters Food Group so it can increase its output,” John added.

For more information about Clegg Food Projects, visit: www.cleggfoodprojects.co.uk

The work has been carried out at Dairy Crest’s site in Foston, Derbyshire.

A new link building between the milk bottling site and the adjacent factory that makes plastic bottles means there is a reduced need for vehicle movement across a site that can bottle up to 250 million litres of milk per annum.

Nationally renowned Clegg Food Projects, which provides solutions for major food operations all over the UK, completed the complex project while the Dairy Crest site remained in full operation.

“It was an unusually complicated project since we had to access the bottle-making site while there were still vehicle movements and people working at the site,” said John Moxon, business development director at Clegg Food Projects.

“That required a flexible and co-operative approach to working with the client that meant we could both achieve our aims. We are both very pleased with the results.”

This was the fifth time that Clegg Food Projects has worked on the site since building the Dairy Crest factory at Foston 10 years ago.

The new link building means that bottles are now moved between factories on conveyor belts rather than by wagons, as they were in the past.

This has led to the reduction in vehicle movements across the site which has consequently seen a fall in overall emissions and diesel fuel use.

Clegg Food Projects also constructed a new mezzanine floor, for the installation of conveying and handling equipment, in the bottle-making factory.

“I am delighted that we have completed another project for our client Dairy Crest,” John added. “We have considerable experience in this area and have the expertise to undertake complex design and construction projects that enable our clients to cut costs and work more efficiently.”

In order to meet the tight deadline, the staff at Krones’ Steinecker plant worked three shifts for about six weeks on the “Pegasus C”. This lauter tun is basically a standard model; what’s unusual about it, though, is its massive size and the polished insulating hood stipulated by the client. It’s only been possible to produce such large brewing vessels at Krones’ Steinecker plant in Freising since the beginning of 2012, when the new pickling shop was completed. The two parts of the 14-metre lauter tun were riveted and polished, and after that separated again for pickling and transport. Together with the transport frame, each part will measure 7.50 x 14.30 metres.

The complete order covers a total of around 60 extra-wide/extra-high packing units, which will have to be moved with heavy-haulage trucks. They will be loaded onto inland waterway barges in Deggendorf and transferred to ships in Rotterdam. Other parts will go via Munich by train to Rotterdam. And more than 1,000 packing units are being delivered by truck. A massive logistical challenge, particularly since the brewery is located right in the heart of Dublin. This means the heavy goods transports have to be routed from the harbour right through the mediaeval city centre.

The advance logistical planning had been ongoing since February 2012; a road survey was carried out, revealing that there are three different routes for delivering the tun, where road signs and traffic lights will have to be removed, and entire streets and crossroads will have to be closed for other traffic and the trams.

Among this project’s special features is the off-site logistical concept, with components being placed in interim storage at a warehouse in Dublin. This solution guarantees just-in-time delivery on site.

McCain Foods is a leading producer of French fries and potato speciality foods. The new greenfield food manufacturing facility will address the increasing demand for McCain Foods’ products in the local market.

This announcement was made during a visit to PM Group’s office in Bangalore by Ireland’s Minister for Training and Skills, Ciarán Cannon. Minister Cannon is heading Ireland’s largest ever education delegation to India organized by Enterprise Ireland. The objective is to promote Ireland as a world-class destination for international education to young Indian students.

Ciarán Cannon said that PM Group is a leading Irish services exporter and securing the latest contract with McCain Foods in India demonstrates the quality of PM Group’s service offering and their continued success in export markets around the world.

PM Group managing director Krishna Kumar Gopala said that recent project wins and growing reputation in India reflect the company’s focus on design excellence and service.

PM Group is currently involved in projects in Indian food and beverage and consumer products for companies such as McCain, Johnson & Johnson, Danone, Givaudan and Unilever. The company is also completing complex life science facilities for multi-national clients in India including Lonza, Biocon, Dr Reddy’s and U.S Pharmacopeia.

PM Group is an engineering, project management and architecture firm that focuses on lifesciences and food and beverage sectors. It operates in Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East.

John Moxon, business development director at Clegg Food Projects.

Leading designer, constructor and engineer in the food manufacturing industry, Clegg Food Projects, has launched a brand new website. The website explains all about the vast experience and creativity Clegg Food Projects is renowned for, the type of work it does to help businesses across the food and drink industries to thrive and introduces the company’s key people.

Visitors to the website can also view case studies of work Clegg Food Projects has done for its clients, all the latest company news such as contract awards and contact details for getting in touch.

John Moxon, business development director at Clegg Food Projects, says: “We’re delighted to be launching our new website.  It has been created to ensure it is as informative and user-friendly as possible. Clegg Food Projects prides itself on the relationship it has with its clients, so ensuring they know all about us and what we do at a glance is really important.”

Nationally renowned Clegg Food Projects provides experience and knowledge to support major food and drink manufacturers all over the UK, regularly completing multi-million pound projects.

Visit the new website at: www.cleggfoodprojects.co.uk.