A huge biscuit manufacturing plant the size of three football pitches, will soon be in full production thanks to major input by the HBPW engineering team.
Cerealto, which has operations in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Mexico and the United States, has a 20-year heritage of producing innovative, top quality cereal-based products from biscuits and cakes to baby food and pasta.
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In late 2016 they started the phased opening of a new factory on part of the Gateford Industrial Estate at Claylands Avenue in Worksop, creating new jobs and the company’s first UK presence. Since then, and largely due to customer demand, management decided to expand an existing cereal bar line to include nut production.
However, ‘nut’ legislation meant that if they wanted to take the business in this new direction, they would also have to segregate this area of the factory, which is what they have done. Engineer Roy Bailie takes up the story.
“Most people are aware of the huge implications of nut allergens for people with this type of allergy, hence why legislation exists to ensure that manufacturers separate any aspect of nut production from other mainstream manufacturing. Biscuits are a case in point.
Biscuits Galore the Cerealto Way!
“As a design team we developed a new layout to incorporate the business’s new requirements, providing steel structures that allowed segregated access by employees to the production line, now housed in the new massive 275m x 104m factory.
“It really is impressive,” said Roy. “We were required to design a new goods-in warehouse and additional welfare facilities, for people working on an existing production line, which will soon be put to new use for the manufacture of cereal bars with nuts,” he added.
“Nut allergens have always had huge implications for food manufacture, so this particular job was all about segregation, keeping traditional production separate from those nut aspects of Cerealto’s food production. It was challenging but I know that the combined efforts of all involved have come up with some great solutions,” said Roy.
Cereal bar & biscuit manufacture at Cerealto.