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Alcohols Ltd begins multi-million-pound upgrade

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Third-party spirits producer Alcohols Restricted is consolidating its operations as a part of a multi-million-pound funding.

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An artist’s impression of the consolidated Alcohols Restricted web site in Rugby, UK

The UK-based firm, a part of the family-owned Palmer Group, claims to make ‘over 75% of Britain’s artisan gins’.

It would transfer the vast majority of its operations to a purpose-built five-acre web site in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

The funding will merge the corporate’s head workplace, at present in Bishop’s Stortford, with the Langley Distillery in Birmingham and distribution facility in London.

Langley Distillery’s Oldbury web site in Birmingham shall be retained to help innovation, with an interactive customer centre to advertise the historical past of gin.

Building has already begun on the new Rugby web site, and primary constructing work is predicted to be accomplished by mid-2022. The fit-out and new plant must be commissioned by the top of 2023.

Alcohols Restricted hopes consolidating the corporate on a single web site will permit the enterprise to introduce new choices, akin to an on-site laboratory, to extend buyer companies.

Adam Wallis, Alcohols Restricted managing director, mentioned: “Due to the heritage of the Palmer Group and Alcohols Restricted, our present working websites don’t have any capability for enlargement and are severely limiting the expansion of the enterprise.

“They’re in areas which have been as soon as rural, however at the moment are surrounded by housing developments. The brand new Rugby web site supplies scope for the environmentally delicate future growth.

“Our merchandise, companies, technical and buyer help will all stay absolutely operational through the growth of the brand new web site and services. From our clients’ perspective, this course of shall be a seamless transition.

“The brand new web site will carry important manufacturing functionality and permit the enterprise to develop and prosper. The wonderful transport connections, prepare and highway with A14/M1/M6 are an additional advantage for transferring to the area.”

In different distillery information, earlier this week plans have been submitted to build a new Highland distillery beside the Dornoch Firth in Scotland.

Plus, plans have been permitted to construct Scotland’s first grain distillery in a decade.

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