Dalziel Ingredients set for £2.5m warehouse expansion after gluten-free sales heat up

Work has now commenced on a £2.5m warehouse expansion for Gatehead-based Dalziel Ingredients.

Using ingredients from growers worldwide, Dalziel specialises in creating bespoke seasoning blends and flavoured batter systems at its factory in William Street, Felling.

Dalziel Ingredients has been based at its current site for over 40 years and is one of the largest employers in the area.

The expansion comes as demand doubles for the company’s gluten-free options on bespoke seasoning blends, cures and functional ingredients.

Dalziel Ingredients is adding a new 16,000 sq ft warehousing facility and new product development centre at its factory.

In addition, the company is also installing a fourth high speed automated packing line with the latest checkweigher technology and metal detection capabilities.

Completion is expected early 2018 in a move that will add 10 new jobs to its 100-strong workforce at William Street, Felling.

Richard Wilson, Dalziel Ingredients sales director, commented: “Our sales have grown year on year and this expansion enables us to invest in raw materials in much larger volumes to increase our efficiencies.

“It enables us to increase our production capacity to make us as flexible as possible, so we maintain the high levels of customer service we’ve built our business on.”

Dalziel Ingredients has seen volumes more than double over the last three years for its gluten free products. The new facility expands Dalziel’s capability to handle the complexities of ‘free from’ manufacturing.

Mr Wilson added: “We’re increasing production of gluten free products because we have the expertise in developing them and a dedicated gluten-free production line to produce them safely to the highest standards. The rise in gluten free means we almost need a gluten-free option for every product we develop.”

All Dalziel Ingredients’ products – seasonings, complete mixes, rubs, glazes, functional blends, batters, crumbs, snack seasonings, cures and brines – can be developed as gluten free, and existing products can re reformulated to be gluten free.

A wide range of the company’s finished products are certified gluten-free by Coeliac UK, and are licensed to carry the Crossed Grain symbol.

Dalziel Ingredients is a division of the Dalziel Group, which has a heritage as a family owned food service specialist going back nearly 90 years.

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