Nestle Ski Factory, Cuddington Jan 2011

[nicola1981]

Visited with thestig

The Nestle chilled liquid foods processing plant at Cuddington in Cheshire was purchased from Northern Foods along with the well known Ski yoghurt and Munch Bunch brands, for £145m in February 2002. The deal also involved the transfer of around 300 staff, although some of these were made redundant during restructuring in October 2002. The facility, which was constructed in 1991, produces over 50,000t per annum of Ski, Munch Bunch and Sveltesse yoghurts.
The site is managed by Elyo Industrial Limited (€2.7m, five year deal, signed in June 2005) an industrial utilities manager, which handles five other sites for Nestle in the UK. Elyo’s responsibilities include 24 hour service support and critical asset maintenance; including steam raising plant, compressed air raising plant, refrigeration and the waste water treatment plant.

In January 2007 Nestle contracted CPS (Carlisle Process Systems) for major expansion at the Cuddington plant. Nestle UK needed to upgrade the plant in two ways.
First to provide a stabiliser mix plant consisting of two big-bag powder dischargers, emptying into a powder weighing vessel, a high shear vacuum for incorporating the powders with liquid additions as well as for transfer to the yoghurt mix process. and second, Nestle needed to modify an existing Erca filling line from four pot filling to six pot filling; this included an additional fruit-dosing station, coupled with process modifications at the filling machine to feed yoghurt and fruit to the new filling head – including clean-in-place (CIP) systems.

The factory site has been vacant since 2007, when the company withdrew operations to mainland Europe, and it was bought by developers, Ainscough Strategic Land two years later.
According to a local news paper back in July 2010, the site is set to be demolished to make way for 150 new family homes, a family pub or restaurant and allotments as well as public space.

On with the pics

[nicola1981]

thank you, haven't been out exploring since beginning of November, so think i made up for it with this couple day road trip lol
now looking to arrange another one next month hopefully. Its nice to get away and enjoy the hobby.

[Only2Eyes]

thank you, haven't been out exploring since beginning of November, so think i made up for it with this couple day road trip lol
now looking to arrange another one next month hopefully. Its nice to get away and enjoy the hobby.

I think me old mucker ZerO was confusing you with another nicola.

Good stuff this Was there much sign of the reported security and his massive dog?

[SilentHill]

Very nice. Always fancied a trip here

[georgie]

ahh i see this is open again,nice one...

been open for ages i was there 2 weeks ago

[minxy*]

Brilliant stuff you guys looks a good explore did you see the labs?

[thestig]

We got to thanks them pikies really lol lol

[coops]

Nice explore talk about a bloddy walk in lol