Bacon producer Danish Crown plans to invest more than £100m in a new 328,000 sq ft processing facility in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
The factory is expected to produce pork products in a more sustainable way through the use of highly automated production equipment and the latest processing technology. The site will be 100% powered by renewable energy.
The new facility is due to begin production in the second half of 2023 and will create about 300 jobs once it is fully operational, producing more than 900 tonnes of bacon and gammon a week.
Jais Valeur, chief executive at Danish Crown, said: “This investment forms the next step in our commitment to the UK market, bringing our customers a reliable, transparent supply of high-quality bacon to help meet demand, produced to high sustainability and welfare standards.”
The investment will create Danish Crown’s first production facility in the UK in three years, following the sale of its Tulip subsidiary to Pilgrim’s in 2019.
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