A Renfrewshire fish and chip shop supplier's move to a bigger premises will create 20 new jobs.
The expansion by T.Quality sees the firm move from its unit within Hillington Park to one more than twice the size in the same industrial estate.
The new £1.9 million logistics unit redevelopment now becomes the company's largest of its 12 depots in the UK.
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It follows its recent acquisition of Glasgow based food service operator Morrison’s Foodservices in March this year.
Work is expected to be completed by the end of May with further expansion planned in the future.
T.Quality, also a fast food wholesaler, supplies and delivers a variety of products to fast food outlets, care homes and the wholesale fish market industry.
The completed £1.9m Carnegie Road redevelopment at Hillington Park will see a dilapidated 1950’s site turned into an energy efficient, modern logistics unit with new internal offices and a redesigned and enlarged service yard that meets modern HGV usage standards.
The redevelopment, is said to be able to reduce energy consumption by 79 per cent compared to the building’s previous condition through enhanced insulation, LED lighting, air-source heat pump efficient heating and removal of gas appliances.
That's understood to result in a typical saving of £6000 in costs each year, with the EPC rating for the building improving from F to B.
Mike Crees, Managing Director of T.Quality said: “We are delighted to be able to move into our own customer logistics facility following our acquisition of Morrisons Foodservice.
"The new site in Hillington Park is the largest of all our depots and shows the exciting potential and plans which we will be laying down in Scotland.
"The site and our acquisition of Morrison’s Foodservices is truly a game changer for how we will operate in Scotland and really is an exciting opportunity for T. Quality.
"We will be able to add further capacity to our operation which will see us deliver to the whole of Scotland, but it will also help enhance our customer service levels with increased delivery dates.”
Grant Edmondson, Commercial Director at Hillington Park said: “It was a bold move by Frasers Property to commit nearly £2m to speculatively redevelop this 1950’s building but we were confident that a high-quality scheme would let quickly.
"There remains a gap in the Glasgow industrial and logistics property market for modern, energy efficient warehousing of this size which is reflected in the speed that T.Quality acted when we made this new property available.
"Working with T.Quality has been a pleasure. We’re delighted to facilitate their expansion and retain their business for the long term at Hillington Park.
"It gives us confidence to undertake further speculative industrial and logistics developments at Hillington Park over the next couple of years.”
Current occupiers at Hillington Park operate in a wide range of sectors including transport and last mile logistics, automotive, construction services, manufacturing, engineering, retail, technology and the public sector.
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