Inspired Pet Nutrition, the UK’s largest independent producer of dry pet food, has confirmed a £500K investment in a new broth and stock plant at its Kinmel Park production site in North Wales. Installation is currently underway and the plant was scheduled to start production at the end of August.
David Proctor group operations director, said: “This plant will enable us to utilise ingredients which would otherwise be wasted by turning them into nutritious bone broths and stocks which will be very tasty, easily digestible and can be added to both our wet and dry pet foods. The investment is really a double win for us as it will also significantly reduce our carbon footprint.”
The plant will enable IPN to fine tune the fat and nutrient content of its products, so optimising pet health and delivering on the firm’s commitment to create “Healthy Pets and Happy Owners”.
Led by Chris Ackroyd (engineering manager) and Ceri Twist (technical services manager), the scheme utilised their colleagues’ extensive technical and process knowledge and so was entirely designed and project managed in-house.
This project is part of a wider plan to quadruple volumes of wet pet food at Kinmel Park over the next five years and clearly demonstrates IPN’s continued commitment to technical advances at the site. IPN as a group has invested a total of some £60 million in equipment and processes during the past nine years at Kinmel Park and its site at Dalton in North Yorkshire.