Manufacturer to build production facility in £4m expansion

Manufacturer Valentine Clays is set to start on a production facility which forms part of a £4m expansion plan.

Nearly four years since completing its HQ, distribution and ceramics centre in Fenton Stoke-on-Trent, the business is starting its next expansion.

The 18,000 sq ft facility will enable the company to bring its business onto one site and will be operational in late summer.

Intium Construction has been appointed for the build with project management support from Prosurv Consult, architects Hulme Upright, services engineer Hopkins Coats, and structural engineer C2C Consulting.

The facility will boost production capacity and create a number of jobs, the company said.

Hannah Ault, director of Valentine Clays, said: “We have worked extremely hard over the past few year’s focusing upon our business growth and it’s exciting to be in a position to complete our next stage of our expansion plans that are aimed at helping our industry to grow.

“Valentine Clays has an ambitious expansion plan, and the continued development of the Fenton site is vital to our aims to increase sales, production and storage capacity and to create new processes to help develop new products.

“Our new production facility will enable us to fulfil the demands that we are currently seeing from our customers worldwide.

“Although COVID has proved challenging for our business we have also seen positive sale increases over previous months, everyone seems to be making from home, and it has also enabled us to focus on restructure and growth.”

Andrew Slaney, managing director of Intium Construction, said: “We are all very thrilled at Intium Construction to be part of such an exciting and local project. We have a great deal of experience with similar construction projects and look forward to realising the completion later this year.”