As a longstanding UK whitewall and cold store contractor, a major misconception among Stancold’s clients is that they only work as part of large new-build and extension projects. While they are always happy to get involved with new-build projects or large facility extensions, Stancold can also bring an unrivalled level of expertise to reconfiguration works within existing areas in food and drink facilities to improve production processes.
In many cases, Stancold can help food and drink producers reach greater efficiency with process improvement works within their existing facilities. This can be achieved by helping producers fit out existing areas of their factories that were previously unused or reconfiguring existing space to better suit our clients’ overall goals.
Take the recent work Stancold conducted at a drinks producer’s facility in Derbyshire for example. The drinks producer had two challenges that were hindering their overall facility efficiency.
First, due to the noisy nature of the production area, it was difficult for the production staff to conduct meetings in that environment and walking back to the office area required going through the PPE changing area. The travel and going through the changepoint cost their team valuable time throughout the working day.
Second, a temperature-controlled ingredient that is part of the producer’s manufacturing process was housed on the opposite side of the production space from its implementation point. The need to transport the ingredient through the production facility multiple times a day would cause interruption to the rest of the production facility.
Stancold’s Food Projects team created facility solutions to meet both these challenges for the producer. To meet the first challenge, Stancold installed a food-safe office in the production area to cut down the time needed to go to and from production meetings.
To meet the second challenge, Stancold installed a temperature-controlled storage space for the ingredient, using previously unused space near the ingredient’s implementation point on the production line.
For more information contact Dan Bartfield.
