New Mill House

From our centre of operations at Wath, North Yorkshire, Greyfriars handles marketing and distribution on behalf of our producer organisation, Northern Mushrooms Ltd.

Opened in 2002 at a cost of £500,000, New Mill House provides an excellent working environment, along with state-of-the-art grading and distribution facilities for Northern Mushrooms members, enabling our team to deliver the consistent high standards that have made our name.

Reflecting our ongoing commitment to Northern Mushroom members, we invested in a new, state-of-the-art pre-packing line. Handling up to 120 units per minute, the line includes a stretch wrapper, two label applicators, a check weigher and metal detector ensuring a high integrity finish for each pack.

Standard House - Investment & Innovation

Our new Morrison-dedicated pack house was opened in September 2004 and represented an investment of £300,000 in diversification. New fresh produce lines include sweet corn, garlic and cabbage.

Comprising 13,000 sq ft of packing area with a 5,000 sq ft of cold store, the new pack house features high specification equipment, including sweet corn stripping technology which is completely new to the UK. With a capacity to process 3,000 packs per hour, product quality is further optimised. The stripping line uses air knives to minimise mechanical damage and improve shelf life and appearance and its speed of operation ensures that the processed corn can be returned to the cold store within 20 minutes of leaving it.

Poland has gained a reputation for producing exceptional quality, low cost mushrooms. PO member Okechamp SA is probably the most advanced production unit in that country and is both Eurep Gap and BRC accredited. Greyfriars sources the more "difficult to pick" lines such as button mushrooms from this source, is able to transport them to the UK in just 27 hours and have them ready for onward dispatch in under an hour.

Packer of the year 2004 Award