Me and My Factory
Investment
Fraine admitted that the “sexy image” many people have of ice cream is not quite the reality.
“There are lots of stainless steel pipes, lots of capital equipment and it’s not produced in some romanticised kitchen,” he said.
R&R Ice Cream will invest about €15M over the next three years, Fraine revealed. Two thirds will be at the Northallerton site on new water ice capacity.
The firm will also replace one old line and put in a new one.
These investments follow a series of other successful spends at the site.
A new inline filler helped R&R create Cadbury’s Marvellous Creations and unlock £4.4M of sales. It pumped £2M into reverse osmosis in 2013 and £2M into combined heat and a power plant last year.