Manufacturers have started bidding for machinery and equipment used in one of Uniq’s factories, which is due to close in the next couple of days.

The sale is taking place after Uniq decided, last year, to transfer volumes from its Riviera Desserts plant in Paignton to another one of its desserts factories in Minsterley, Shropshire.

Uniq has appointed Edward Symmonds to sell off the equipment and machinery from its production plant, which makes mousse-style desserts. The equipment that is up for sale includes a Bosch filling line, pasteuriser, storage and mixing vessels, a removable chilled production building and other associated factory equipment.

The online auction will take bids until 3pm on Tuesday November 3. Since the closure of site at Paignton was announced, up to 390 jobs have been lost. However, a proportion of these have been transferred to other Uniq sites, according to the company.

Uniq is thought to have invested more than £35M in the Minsterley site to prepare for extra volumes.