All Eyes On The Pies As Major Investment Project Completes
Lorien Engineering Solutions has completed a major refurbishment for the UK ’ s leading pork pie brand .
Addo Food Group enlisted the help of Burton on Trent based Lorien to augment manufacturing facilities at its Tottle Bakery in Nottingham , a specialist pork pie bakery that sits within the PGI-designated Melton Mowbray pork pie region .
Lorien was appointed as designer and project manager for the 12-month , multi-million pound project , which has seen manufacturing areas further enhanced to meet the large-scale needs of a major UK multiple . The works were completed with zero production downtime .
Tottle Bakery is the only UK manufacturer with process capability in every type of pork pie manufacturing , whether it is baked in a hoop , tin or freestanding .
The flagship facility makes and distributes over 40 million pork pies each year , with a heritage that stretches back to the 1940s , when local lad Ken Parr took out a loan to open his first bakery .
Today , the business is an integral part of Addo Food Group , the UK ’ s premium producer of chilled savoury pastry products . The Tottle Bakery is the home of the Pork Farms and Bowyers brands and is one of six Addo Food Group business locations around the UK .
The year-long investment project , led by a team of specialist utilities engineers from Lorien , reaffirms Tottle Bakery ’ s position at the forefront of FMCG manufacture and signifies the Group ’ s commitment to meeting the needs of the UK ’ s major multiples .
Phil Colquhoun , senior project manager at Lorien Engineering Solutions , said : “ We are delighted to work closely with the technical team at Addo Food Group in bringing a major project such as this to completion on time , within budget , and with no production downtime .”
Tony Ombler , general manager of the Tottle Bakery , added : “ From the outset it was clear that Lorien
is accustomed to integrating seamlessly with in-house teams and project managing the entire process from start to finish . It took the pressure off our internal resources and allowed our focus to remain entirely on production . This was a demanding project and the team at Lorien rose to the challenge .”
Lorien is a division of GP Strategies Corporation , a global engineering and technical services organisation headquartered in Maryland USA .
Based in Burton on Trent in the UK and Wroclaw in Poland , Lorien specialises in capital projects for household names in sectors such as food and drink , brewing , life sciences , biotech , safety and compliance , advanced manufacturing and retail supply chain logistics .
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