A family-owned Carmarthenshire pet food manufacturer has invested in a new manufacturing facility in Longridge, Lancashire.
Cambrian Pet Foods will create 20 to 30 jobs within three years at the facility, which the company has bought, refurbished and re-equipped.
The Welsh company currently employs 110 staff across its dry plant at Pencader and a cannery at Llangadog, reports the Insider Media.
Founder David Davies said: “This investment at Longridge is not about flags in maps, it is just a fantastically capable facility in a great geographical location equipped with best-in-class dry pet food extrusion and processing equipment, combined with a really skilled group of people.
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“It also has far greater capacity than the current dry plant at Pencader and, therefore, removes a critical area of single-point redundancy.”
He added that the investment is a meaningful one which will ‘support the company’s growth plans in the short to mid-term and can be seen as part of our longer term commitment to our client partners’.
“We view this as undoubtedly being the start of an exciting new phase in the history and development of our company, and will allow us to build on the excellent performance at our two facilities in Carmarthenshire.”
This investment outside Wales represents a first for the company. Initial production will start in October.
