Emergency aid
September 1st 2007

De Boer has almost completed the dismantling of a temporary factory that enabled a Scottish food company to safeguard its business, and protect the jobs of 210 staff, after fire devastated its original premises.

The emergency facility for Aulds has been used for the past 18 months after De Boer took just five weeks to design and build 2250m2 of facilities on grassland at the rear of the burnt-out building.

Using one of its modular Delta System structures as the centrepiece, De Boer created space for a range of facilities, including clean production area, offices, cold storage facilities, laboratory and test kitchen. Aulds was also provided with goods-in and goods-out facilities, changing rooms and space for blast freezers.

Within six weeks of the production line rolling again, inspectors from the European Food Standards Inspection Service carried out an audit on the temporary facility and awarded it an A-rated accreditation certificate.