Supply chain

JBT Ltd is the leading haulage company operating throughout Scotland with depots in Inverness, Aberdeen, Bathgate, East Kilbride, Orkney and Shetland.

They work across chilled, frozen and ambient sectors and deliver to small and large outlets.

The site is BRC accredited and is ideal for a food and drink supplier to store raw material and finished product. It is ideal as a distribution point for goods to held and distributed from their across the UK and Europe.

JBT Ltd are offering Scotland Food & Drink members a free consultation and specific tailored rates for your distribution needs regardless of size of company or delivery. They would also be happy to offer an open invitation for all members to come and see the site and view the operation.

Gist Motherwell is the primary hub for chilled and ambient transport and warehousing operations in Scotland and Northern England.

Forming part of Gist’s Temperature Controlled Logistics network, Motherwell can offer Scotland Food & Drink members competitive rates on 81,000ft² of chilled/ambient warehouse space, an ideal Scottish Belt location and motorway links, cross dock facilities, added value pick operations, factory clearance and customer bulk collection pick and deliver available, along with access to our Global Supply Chain Logistics Services.

Motherwell’s principle customers are suppliers who manufacture for UK food retailers; we distribute finished products to all major retailers, delivering to their Regional Distribution Centres. Through our network we provide tangible routes to market for food manufacturers in Scotland and Northern England, from dairy farmers to meat suppliers. As well as this, Motherwell provides tailored solutions for customers in the Retail and Foodservice markets and delivers retail logistics solutions for the UK’s leading supermarkets.

FREE consultation and specific tailored rates - Menzies Distribution

MACFREIGHT is an International Freight Forwarding company ideally situated in Paisley, Just five minutes from Glasgow airport and a matter of minutes from major motorway links.

We offer Ambient, Chilled and Frozen services worldwide with competitive rates put together for Scotland Food & Drink members.

We offer Air, Sea and Land services. From the collection of your products to the final delivery to your customer. Wither it be internationally or courier services throughout all postcodes in Scotland, we can take care of everything.

The MACFREIGHT Consolidation Concept is designed to be hassle free and assist your company in getting a foothold into the Export Marketplace in the most environmental and economical manner. Grouping together your products and exporting them together with like-minded businesses, allows us to provide lower export rates. This then allowing you to pass on these savings to your customers. Offering a complete door to door service, with our overseas agents receiving the consolidations and sorting for delivery out to your customer in the destination country.

Let us take the strain of hunting for routes, solutions and rates!

 For more info visit www.macfreight.co.uk

BCC know the challenges facing the F&D sector and have developed a long track record of helping our clients minimise their utility costs and impact on the environment. As a fellow member of SF&D, BCC can support your business by undertaking a free, no obligation review (normally priced at £600) of how, why and where you’re using energy and water to assist minimise bottom line costs, increase consumption efficiency, enhance legislative compliance and free up valuable internal resource.

We have saved tens of thousands of pounds for Scotland Food & Drink members, including the following:

• Macleans Highland Bakery
• Robertsons Fine Foods
• Sco-Fro Group
• Cobbs Bakery

Visit here to watch video testimonials about Business Cost Consultants.

Gaeltel, in partnership with Utility Alliance, offers a free comprehensive energy consultancy service. They will work with you on an on-going basis to minimise your consumption, reduce your overall energy cost and help to optimise your usage patterns.

They provide support to businesses for smart energy solutions.

Gaeltel are the only company in Scotland to provide billing management, detailed premises monitoring, Electric Vehicle Charging, Lighting LED retrofit, Voltage Optimisation,Solar and ESaaS combined.

A typical mid to large business will be between 10% and 40% better off with Gaeltel than any other industry or broker offer.

Membership benefit:
A free energy review which will consist of Gaeltel reviewing your current consumption, contracts and business usage trends to identify any problem areas. They will make recommendations to you to improve not only your cost but how energy efficient your business is. They will also explain how current industry levies impact on your costs.

All Gaeltel need to get started is a copy of the invoice and a letter of authorisation which allows us to speak to the supplier to gain consumption information.

Call them free on 0800 5999070 or check them out at gaeltel.co.uk or esaas.co.uk.

HWEnergy has focused exclusively on commercial biomass heating systems since 2003 and is one of the UK’s leading wood fuel heat specialists offering a full turnkey service.

A design and engineering-led company, HW Energy design, build, install and operate biomass heating systems and now also offer wood fuelled CHP (combined heat and power) units ideal for food and drink manufacturers and processors with a high power requirement.

They work with clients across the public, private and third sectors designing and installing systems of all types, from straightforward single interfaces to complex district heating schemes. Their CHP systems provide options of refrigeration and steam as well as heat as a by-product of electricity generation.
They have completed more than complex 250 projects to date and service and maintain some 300 + nationwide.

Today their Heat Supply model, whereby they take care of all aspects of biomass heating on behalf of their clients and simply bill per kWh of heat used, is seeing significant uptake. This is backed by performance guarantees for total peace of mind. They have engineers based throughout the country and local fuel supply depots ensuring rapid response backed by remote diagnostics and head office support.

Their track record in successful RHI applications on behalf of clients is second to none.

Clients include The Co-operative Food, Auchrannie Hotel and Spa, Argyll Holidays, Sky, Scottish Water, Carnegie Club at Skibo.

Member Benefits:

• Free initial Business Case document following initial site visit. This will provide an outline assessment of the project, financial projections, timescale and overall viability.
• Free RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) application with order (value £2400) by the team of RHI specialists.

Powerful Allies has been described as a “quiet revolution”, introducing hitherto unseen levels of transparency and clarity into commercial energy procurement. Our unique Open Competition Charter sets new standards in an otherwise unregulated sector, with a personal and hands-on approach to energy contract negotiation which truly reflects the needs of clients. No hidden supplier incentives or the sales targets of faceless and, in many cases, unscrupulous brokers. No hidden deals, no hidden fees, just honest and accountable contract negotiation.

Which is why Powerful Allies has been the appointed energy partner for Scotland Food & Drink for the past 4 years and is the only partner recommended by HiT Scotland. Just look at www.powerfulallies.com/clients to see the superb base of clients we have attracted throughout Scotland.

And to ensure we always provide the best possible value for money, Powerful Allies is confident that our broker commission for Scotland Food & Drink members is just half normal broker commission, and often even less.

Please just send a copy of your energy bills to charlesbarker@powerfulallies.com, and we will do the rest. No charge, nothing to lose.

Support & Funding from Zero Waste Scotland

Zero Waste Scotland is a Scottish Government and EU funded organisation leading on Scotland’s zero waste journey. Via a range of free and impartial support and funding mechanisms for businesses and consumers, Zero Waste Scotland can help to identify cost savings and develop new business opportunities in an environmentally conscientious way.

What help is on offer?

Resource Efficient Scotland is a programme of Zero Waste Scotland and provides a range of self-help and one-to-one business support on energy, water and waste reduction. For a free food waste opportunity assessment click here. For a free energy, water and general waste audit click here. For general tools, support and funding information, visit the Resource Efficient Scotland website.

Love Food Hate Waste aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste and help individuals to take action. By doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment too. Visit the website and Facebook page for handy hints, tips and recipes about reducing food waste at home. If you would like to host a free Love Food Hate Waste cascade training session (for 10 people or more), please email us for more information.

Boxshop are delighted to offer fellow SF&D members a no obligation review of packaging.

They have been making corrugated cases at their factory in East Kilbride for over 30 years.

They manufacture millions of boxes a year, ranging from brown outer shipping boxes to multi coloured Retail Ready Packs (RRP’s) with expert knowledge of the requirements for all the major retailers.

All manufacturing and stock holding is carried out at their BRC accredited facility in East Kilbride with additional stock holding at our warehouse and distribution site in Aberdeen.

Boxshop are delighted to offer fellow SF&D members a no obligation review of packaging they currently use and offer advice on any pack improvements and cost out opportunities available from their expert knowledge of:

• Board grade review/performance packaging
• Palletisation methods
• Pack styles / Reduction of product complexity
• Packing line efficiencies
• State of the art manufacturing
• Inventory review

Innovative solutions to reduce your packaging costs.

Award-winning packaging company specialising in innovative and clever design concepts for the Scottish Food and Drink industry. InnPac offer a FREE EVALUATION of your current packaging, which is a fantastic opportunity to let you understand if your packaging is working from a practical and commercial perspective. When was the last time your packaging was valued?

innpac.co.uk

Innovators of Cool InnPac. UK's first one piece recyclable temperature controlled cardboard boxes holding 8kg - 20kg of chilled product to 24 - 36 hours.

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Number one Google and Bing search for Innovative Cardboard Packaging in Scotland.

Contact Kevin Porter on 01259 726665

We offer complimentary packaging design and sampling

McLaren Packaging are delighted to offer fellow SF&D members complimentary packaging design and sampling.

They are a fully accredited, family run company based in central Scotland specialising in the design and manufacture of premium, paper-based packaging, for the Scottish food and drinks industry.

They apply over 35 years’ expertise across a wide range of paper substrates to meet customer requirements, delivering value for their brands and products.

From high-quality flexographic printing to award-winning shaped composite tubes and rigid boxes, they lead on innovation, quality and service.

McLaren produce a broad range of products to cover your transportation and on shelf needs:

• Cartons
• Composite tubes
• Rigid boxes
• Corrugate cases
• Multi cell divisions

Please contact James Hutchinson for more information. E. jamesh@mclarenpackaging.com or T. 01475 745246.

Ian Murray is happy in the first instance to give telephone advice, before arranging a visit to his showroom where you can see the machinery in operation, or a site visit – whichever would benefit you most.

Murray Packaging supply start-up companies with their first piece of equipment, as well as planning and installing some of the largest food manufacturing packaging lines in Scotland.

Examples of Machinery

Heatsealers; Vacuum packing machines, with or without integral printers and gas flushing; Shrink wrapping machines; L sealing machines; Flow wrapping machines; Tray sealers; Pallet packaging

Scotland Food & Drink members receive preferential 20% introductory and 10% ongoing renewal discounts on all of Acoura’s BRC (Food and Storage and Distribution) and MSC audits.

Among the certification programmes Acoura offer are BRC Global Standard for Food, BRC Storage and Distribution, MSC Chain of Custody, Organic Processing, RSPCA Assured and Quality Meat Scotland Processing.

As well as this, Acoura offer an extensive range of training and technical services. These include Internal Auditing and HACCP courses as well as Gap-Analysis and Pre-Audits for the likes of BRC.

Competitive rates for label compliance checks, regulatory query reports and nutritional analysis - Foodable

On request, Foodmek will provide to all Scotland Food & Drink members a half day consultation at your premises, outlining current best practice and available technologies.

Scottish food and drink is flourishing; many members in the manufacturing and processing sectors are experiencing significant growth.

Foodmek have nearly 45 years’ experience in designing, developing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining food and drink processing equipment in Scotland, the UK and many countries overseas.

They understand that every customer’s requirement is different and that is why they specialise in bespoke equipment which optimises productivity within the parameters and space constraints of factory buildings.

If you are experiencing growth, production capacity issues, or equipment maintenance problems and need the early support of professional engineers who understand your issues in depth, please contact Foodmek and let them provide you with concept solutions to support your productivity.

On request, Foodmek will provide to all Scotland Food & Drink members a half day consultation at your premises, outlining current best practice and available technologies.

Scotland Food & Drink Members receive 10% discount on all training courses over the value of £500 per person. 30 minutes free consultation is offered to all Members.

Outsource Solution is a Scottish based company providing the following services to the food and drinks industry.

Microbiological and Technical Support including:

• Results interpretation, Microbiological process and supply chain risk assessment,
• Shelf life extension and durability assessment, Vulnerability assessments and TACCP
• Factory layout and design
• Quality Management System Development
• BRC Auditing and Training
• Food Safety Training

The Quality Management System development is based on fulfilling the BRC Food Standard for Food, Packaging, Storage and Distribution, Agents and Brokers and ISO22000. Outsource Solution provide facilitation and mentoring services for BRC and HACCP implementation.

They provide certificated audits and Technical Support for the following standards:

• BRC
• Organic
• SALSA
• Red Tractor
• Quality Meat Scotland
• Scottish Quality Wild Venison

Training courses:

• Certificated RSPH Hygiene and HACCP courses
• Internal Auditing
• BRC Implementation
• Food Microbiology
• TACCP and Vulnerability Assessment
• BRC Approved Issue 7 Training
• Advanced training in Food Safety

All services can be carried out throughout the UK and internationally on site or at a training centre.

The Scottish Centre for Food Development and Innovation offers companies expertise in the translation and application of nutritional science to support commercially successful research and development within the food and drink industry.

QMU’s Scottish Centre for Food Development and Innovation's state of the art laboratories include:

• Dedicated microbiology laboratory;
• Fully-equipped sensory suite;
• Dedicated chemistry laboratory;
• Technology/white room for industry to test new technology;
• Development kitchen.

These  facilities combined with our specialist expertise in  food, nutrition and biological sciences offer companies in the food and drink industry an unrivalled opportunity to innovate and develop new products which are underpinned by our scientific research.   

Members of Scotland Food & Drink can access a free consultation with our Academic team and tour of the new facilities. In addition companies can also access a free consultation and demonstration from Advanced Microwave Technologies who are located on site in the new white room.

Members of Scotland Food & Drink are eligible for 15% discount.

The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health offers a bespoke service to the food industry. Their team of nutritionists and dietitians can: calculate the composition of the product; provide advice on reference intakes; portion size; labelling and help guide through the nutritional labelling legislation. They can also offer guidance and advice on when a nutritional or health claim can be made on your product. Analysis from £90 with members getting a 15% discount.

• Back of pack (BOP) nutritional labelling will become compulsory for most companies introducing the nutritional information for the first time in their packaging from 13 December 2016
• Businesses already providing nutrition information, had to comply with EU regulations by 13 December 2014
• Front of pack (FOP) nutritional labelling whilst not mandatory is recommended by the UK and Scottish Governments to encourage healthier eating patterns