Work is underway on a new £8 million home for Terinex Flexibles, a supplier of printed flexible packaging for the food, pet food and medical packaging industries. The new facility is going up on Dove Valley Park, a 200-acre industrial and distribution development in Foston, South Derbyshire.
Clowes Developments and a professional team including IMA Architects, CDS Engineers, and Savills, are bringing forward site 10A, a 45,500 sq ft plot located on the southern area of the industrial park, just off the A50. Leicestershire-based IMA Architects is providing all architectural services and acting as principal designer on the scheme.
The premises will feature production and warehousing as well as R&D facilities. The building will also include advanced sustainable energy systems to recover heat for re-use, and solar panels to generate power for the factory. Terinex parent company OGM Holdings wants to create the “most sustainable, low carbon footprint, flexible packaging factory in the UK”.
Dove Valley Park, a subsidiary of Clowes Developments, has been developing the business park for a number of years and it is already home to occupiers including Top Hat, JCB, Müller, Futaba Ltd and GXO. Completion of the building is expected in January.
Clowes Developments director Marc Freeman said: “Dove Valley Park is a fantastic location for logistical enterprises, benefiting from easy access to the A50.
“The site continues to grow in popularity with occupiers, creating valuable employment opportunities in South Derbyshire.
“We are looking forward to delivering the new site for Terinex Flexibles. Clowes Developments is currently constructing a further 270,000sq ft across the site which will enhance the existing offering for perspective occupants.”
Jack Mellor, associate at IMA Architects, said: “This is our latest project with Clowes at Dove Valley Park, and we are proud to be playing our part in creating a thriving business location.
“Being involved in the site, from the planning stage to completion, means we are able to create premises bespoke to the needs of the end user, something that was important to Terinex Flexibles.”
Paul Wightman, group managing director of the OGM Group, said: “Our new location for Terinex Flexibles will facilitate the further growth of our business and we are looking forward to adding to our team in South Derbyshire.
“The new site will be more than double the size of our current factory and will accommodate new equipment, our expanding team and increased R&D capabilities to benefit our food, petfood and medical packaging customers.
“Reducing the environmental impact of industry in the UK is both a moral obligation and a business necessity. We aim to build the UK’s best flexible packaging factory with the lowest environmental footprint producing very high quality products. We can’t wait to move in next year.”
Clowes Developments is a major privately-owned property investment and development company, headquartered in Ednaston, Derbyshire.
IMA, based in Blaby, just outside Leicester, has completed more than 200 projects nationally and is actively working on 75 large-scale projects across the UK, Ireland and further afield.
It works across all sectors and with a range of FTSE 100 companies – such as Marks & Spencer – as well as global brands including an international discount supermarket retailer.
