Pet food manufacturer sitting pretty with £1.5m investment

PET food manufacturer Inspired Pet Nutrition, formerly known as Wagg Foods, is investing another £1.5m in its North Yorkshire facilities.

The company has already invested £7m in a 100,000 sq ft distribution centre at dalton Airfield, which became operational in May.

The investment in a new conveyancing system will nearly double the amount the site can handle, expanding its capacity from 40 pallet loads an hour to 75.

The system will also work in tandem with the new distribution centre – which currently has a capacity to store 11,500 pallet loads

George Page, operations director at IPN, said: “Previously there was a lot of manual double handling required as pallets were collected from individual packing lines and stacked in the factory before being moved again for despatch.

“Now there is just a single collection point from where bagged goods are shunted on the Automatic Trailer Loading System straight to the new DC, where they are automatically unloaded directly into an automated racking system that prepares loads for despatch.”