What happened
The move follows an earlier £150,000 commercial-roaster investment. The company says current roasting capability is up to roughly one tonne per day and that the new facility could enable production to double. Green-coffee storage silos have also been installed.
Why it matters to food manufacturing engineers
Production growth often exposes constraints in electrical capacity, gas, ventilation, drainage, compressed air, fire systems, storage and material flow.
Operational impact
Moving into a larger factory creates an opportunity to improve material flow, storage, segregation and maintainability, but simply transferring existing equipment can reproduce old inefficiencies.
AFME perspective — what to watch
Factory expansion is an opportunity to eliminate inherited layout and infrastructure compromises. Engineering should be involved before a building is selected.