LINCOLN & YORK - RELOCATION TO NEW FACTORY BEGINS

Dec 2008

The builders had left Lincoln & York’s brand new factory site by mid December, so the massive logistical job of relocating silo, blender, roasters, grinders, hoppers and packing lines is about to start.

The ten day Christmas break provides a great opportunity.

The original plan was that Lincoln & York’s many items of plant and equipment would move stage by stage, one at a time over a three month period starting January 2009.

However the ten day Christmas break was just too tempting an opportunity for factory manager Jeff Kidd and his small team of engineers.

Apart from Christmas Day, the team worked long hours every day over the holiday period, moving all grinding and packing equipment the 200 metres distance from the existing factory to the brand new facility just along the road. Then followed the massive task of reconnecting every item of plant to services before testing to ensure that everything would start up without problems on the first day back on Monday 5th January.

"I wouldn’t say that we didn’t hit the odd hitch," Jeff Kidd, factory manager admitted, "but the relocation team did a great job and we restarted production on the new site without problems."