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Project Overview The client set out to establish a super-premium position in the single-serve cat food market by introducing an 85g aluminium can format. While their existing portfolio included: they identified a strategic opportunity in aluminium cans—a segment largely dominated by Nestlé Purina’s Gourmet range—but with room for premium and own-label innovation. A 12-month timeline…
The client’s brief was to assess an existing wet pet food pouch production line and develop an action plan to reduce seal failures while also decreasing the incubation time required before the pouches could be packed. Seal integrity is the Achilles’ heel of wet pet food pouch production. Although the format offers clear advantages for…
Overview A leading pet food manufacturer approached us to evaluate and modernise their existing wet pet food pouch production line. The objective was clear: enable scalable growth by automating the multi-packing area, reducing reliance on manual labour, and improving operational efficiency. The Challenge The client’s production line, installed in 2018, featured automated filling and retorting…
The client’s brief was to move the existing canning line out and locate it in a newly acquired brownfield factory in another country, all within one month! Canning is an important part of the business and strategically the client wanted to centralise canning into one location leaving valuable room for another line in the doner…
The client’s brief was to assess an existing wet pouch and to build an action plan to reduce the number of seal failures and decrease the time for incubation prior to the pouches being packed. Seal integrity is the Achilles heel of Wet petfood pouch production. Whilst the format is great for the purchaser giving…
The Brief We were asked to assess an existing semi-automated packing line at a recent acquisition, and provide guidance on how capacity could be increased whilst automating the manual elements of the line. After an initial site visit t was clear that the site team had a design they were keen for me to validate.…
Following a major capital investment at this blue-chip food manufacturer in the UK, the management team was fighting the process and delivering very low productivity and high unit costs. I was brought in to reverse the trend and over an 18 month period identified structural weakness in the operational structure that lead to several key…
This blue-chip food manufacturer wanted to expand production into Eastern Europe. After working with the senior leadership team to define the scope, budget and timescale of the project I managed the implementation of the green field factory end-to-end over a 3 year period. I worked closely with logistics teams to ensure incoming materials supply, the…
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