roquette corby to close

[yellow belly]

take a lot of wheat

Roquette reveals plans to shut down Corby production plant - East Midlands Business Link

Roquette, a provider of plant-based ingredients, has revealed plans to stop manufacturing activities and shut down its Corby production plant

www.eastmidlandsbusinesslink.co.uk

 

[snarling bee]

1000 t day apparently.
Not good for local wheat producers.

 

[yellow belly]

last time i had feed wheat they were looking at increasing production 2018 so they could supply product from the uk plant compared to importing from france
they take from 25 miles radius of corby and buy a lot of non assured wheat

if they shut that will be 450000 tonnes less wheat needed in a normal year
for 2021 that could be 300000 tonnes less till harvest
they have to use wheat and are a long way from a port for imports

 

[Andy26]

Not sent any Wheat there for over ten years, but back then they did hire a very large grain store near Peterborough and bought thousands and thousands of tons off the combine.

As mentioned one of the few homes for non assured Wheat and I understand quite flexible on the quality, as in it needed very little.

Was always a good place to send, they had there own contracted haulier back then (probably still do as I see the same lorries go past daily) and they had several spare trailers so could drop a trailer and return with an empty promptly, leaving a shunter in the yard to tip the trailers.

Sad, but economics change, things go full circle. Perhaps years in the future, when the exported environmental cost is added back in, local processing of bulk commodities will again become economic.

 

[Neddy flanders]

sad loss. where are their customers going to get their wheat syrup from? shipped in from France? doesnt make sense.

 

[Andy26]

Went past last week...

Just in case anyone thinks they might have a change of heart...