Stancold’s Food Projects team recently secured a whitewall and cold store installation project for a Taste of the West producer based in Cornwall, Proper Cornish, who produces baked savoury goods.
Proper Cornish finalised a new production contract with a nationwide distributor, so it is necessary for them to upgrade their facility to ensure that they can efficiently reach the required levels of production.
The producer contacted our team in April to create a cold store for their bacon products in an unfinished part of their factory. As this space is currently used for storage, part of it has existing whitewalls that our team can incorporate into the design.
The preparation for this project involved an extensive site visit by our Food Projects Specialist Andy Connell to fully understand the producer’s needs and what they are trying to achieve with the new space in the context of their existing operations.
During the site visit, Andy was able to identify a way to help the client not only lower the overall cost of the project but to also use the existing space more efficiently. This involved changing the plans to build a straight wall across the existing steel columns rather than fitting the whitewall around them. The client did not need the small amount of extra space that fitting around the columns would provide, so they happily took our recommendation to design the wall to go straight across, lowering the cost and time of the installation.
‘That’s one of the benefits of doing a site visit,’ says our Food Projects Specialist Andy, ‘Seeing the space and the client’s overall facility in person allows us to identify ways we can value-engineer a project to better suit both their budget and what they are looking to achieve.’
For any client or potential client that approaches Stancold to help them achieve their food or drink facility’s goals, our Food Projects team will always visit the site whenever possible so that we can confidently determine the best solution to fit their processes and the changes they are striving to make.
This is especially true for Taste of the West members as we are right on their doorstep and are very keen to support the vibrant and always-expanding Southwest food and drink-producing community.
‘The Food Projects team at Stancold couldn’t be happier for the opportunity to help a Taste of the West producer like Proper Cornish expand capacity,’ says Andy. ‘We hope this will be the beginning of a long-lasting mutually beneficial relationship and are confident that this project will set the highest standard for how we can help other Taste of the West members achieve operational excellence.’
