Europe’s most efficient cold store facility taking is shape in eastern England following a £130 million investment by cold storage specialist Magnavale. The huge new site – capable of holding 101,000 pallets – is taking shape at Easton, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire.
Work started last September and the whole development should be ready for use by the end of 2024. Magnavale said it will be fully automated, and will operate using 100 per cent renewable energy. The business, which is based in Chesterfield, is one of the UK’s biggest temperature-controlled food storage and value-added service specialists, with four main sites.
It provides a range of services for its clients in the food sector, allowing manufacturers and retailers to cut costs by buying in services such as blast freezing, tempering, packing and date-coding.
