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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.
Polish
Mushrooms
Poland has gained a reputation for
producing exceptional quality, low cost mushrooms. An
excellent source of the more expensive and difficult to
pick lines, Greyfriars' imported Polish mushrooms arrive
in the UK ready for despatch within just 27 hours.
Our carefully selected Polish mushroom supplier, Okechamp
SA, is both Eurep Gap and BRC accredited and is part of
the Greyfriars Producer Organization Northern Mushrooms
Ltd.
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Workday at New Mill House
Sep 2006
Quality standards explained
Sep 2006 |
