Demolition to start at Newport creamery
A former Dairy Crest plant in Shropshire will soon be demolished, it was announced today.
Signs have gone up outside the factory in Crudgington near Telford warning people to keep out due to demolition work.
A.R. Demolition has taken over control of the site but they were unable to confirm its exact plans.
Dairy Crest completed the closure of its spreads manufacturing plant in the village earlier this year.
The Cathedral City cheese and Clover spread maker first announced plans to shut the factory in September 2009.
Since then it has been through a process of winding down its operation, and completed that in the last three months of 2014.
However, the company is building a new £4 million innovation centre at Harper Adams, and around 40 members of staff have now moved over to the university near Newport.
The company's operations in Shropshire have been significantly scaled back over the last two decades.
In 1998, the company announced the closure of its Ellesmere creamery, with the loss of 330 jobs.
At the peak of its operation, the Crudgington plant employed around 200 people producing spreads such as Clover, Argento and Willow, plus Country Life Butter.
In a trading update earlier this year, the company said: "During the third quarter we transferred production to Kirkby and closed our spreads manufacturing plant at Crudgington.
"Our innovation team, previously based at Crudgington, has moved to Harper Adams University."
