Working with the food industry

As a food and drink manufacturer, you understand the complexities involved in the manufacturing process. You also know that getting new products to market, adapting existing products and processes for new markets or simply developing existing products present certain challenges. Maintaining existing production whilst doing all this adds further complications.

The Reaseheath Food Centre of Excellence combines the expertise and experience of our commercial food specialists, scientists and technicians with state of the art manufacturing and trial facilities. The services, facilities and expertise across dairy, butchery and bakery are here to help you develop your business.

Key Benefits:

simultaneous access to food processing specialists and fully flexible manufacturing facilities.
potential to develop and trial a new product without impacting your core business operation.
ability to accommodate production runs of various sizes.
specialism in dairy, meat and bakery.
access to microbiological testing on site.
access to labelling and packaging experts and equipment.
extensive skills and training programmes.

People: for more information on the team - click here.

Derek Allen - Food Commercial Manager
Naboth Tinarwo - KTT Lean Manufacturing Specialist - Food
Damien Murphy - Food Technologist
Bernie McCalla - Project Administrator
Carol Love - Food Technologist

Technical Services:

Analysis and testing
Legislation
Packaging
H&S
Hygiene
Continuous improvement
Skills gap analysis

Skills:

Our fully flexible skills training package can be delivered in our state of the art industry relevant production environment, at your site, online, part time, full time day or evening. Our team of experts will help identify all of your business improvement and skills needs to develop a bespoke continuous improvement package.

Bespoke Industry Training packages.
Legislative certification.
Food manufacturing skills ranging from basic operator induction (level 1) to management specific leadership and technical training (level 5).
Vocational related qualifications.

Your business skills needs can be delivered and funded through a number of different programmes including:

Networking and Partnerships:

Food and Drink National Skills Academy

Society of Dairy Technology

University of Chester

Harper Adams University College

North West Universities Association

Food Manufacturing Institute