Fletchers invests £1m at Kara site

FLETCHERS Group of Bakeries has completed invested £1m at its Kara cold storage facility in north Manchester.

Kara, which specialises in frozen buns, rolls and doughballs for the food service and convenience sectors, has converted an existing building to double capacity.

The Kara project by the Sheffield-based group is part of a £12m capital investment programme in 2013 which also involves the£4m expansion of food manufacturing facilities in London and the creation of a new £7m production facility in Sheffield.

Kara general manager Jeff Dean said: “Kara is consistently growing due to improving performance levels, innovative product development and the support the customer receives. Our facilities have got to match our exacting customer standards.

“Cold storage is an essential part of the production process and our previous facility had become outdated. This is more energy efficient, enables us to handle products in a more orderly way with less movement and offers us greater efficiency in dispatching the product to third party distributors.

“This project has allowed us to double our storage capacity to now hold up to 1,000 pallets at any one time whilst retaining high levels of quality and food safety. The new facility complies with all the latest regulations and is far easier to maintain.”