Cargill opens £75m process plant in Manchester
11 Apr 2008
As well as converting the plant to process wheat, Cargill has consolidated a number of its food ingredients businesses at the Trafford Park site, which is now the hub for its UK food ingredients business, employing over 300 people.
“The advantages of producing sweeteners from wheat, a reduced complexity of operation, efficiencies in milling and superior economies of scale allows Cargill to become the most competitive producers of sweeteners, effectively meeting customers product and supply requirements wherever they are,” said Frank van Lierde, who runs Cargill’s European sweeteners business.
Martin Douglas, general manager of Cargill’s Manchester plant said; “As with any project of this scale, it’s a great feeling to see it at completion as we’re very proud of what this means for our customers, who not only have a continued long-term supply of products from the plant, but can also see Manchester as a “one stop shop” for a range of other food ingredients products from Cargill.”
The Manchester site is one of a network of plants that make up Cargill’s starches and sweeteners operations in Europe. Together these plants supply a matrix of products either directly, or sourced from other network plants to the food, drink, feed, paper and pharmaceuticals sectors across Europe.
Cargill currently employs around 2,800 people in the UK; at 15 locations in London, Cobham, Hereford, Hull, Liverpool (four locations), Manchester, Runcorn, Newent, York, Witham St Hughs, Wolverhampton and Worksop. The company's European starches and sweeteners business is headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium and employs over 3,500 people in 15 sites across the region.
