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tarting up in Staffordshire in 1953, the Blakeman family have been producing sausages and meat products that are renowned for their consistently high quality ever since. Despite the scale of the operation growing
year on year and the technological advancements they’ve installed, it is their ethos of using the finest ingredients; a robust production process perfected through the generations and a heavy focus on giving great customer service that keeps their loyal customers coming back.
On the eve of their 70th birthday, Blakemans reflect James. T. Blakemans will be celebrating their 70th birthday next year and they have been The company have gone from strength to strength
upgrade to all of the lighting throughout the manufacturing
since their humble beginnings in a converted barn to the
plant and even ensured that all of their food waste is
multimillion pound, purpose built facility employing over
used to create renewable energy by a 3rd party, using an
290 people that they have today. The size of the operation
anaerobic digester.
has not altered their core values however and the family
Another recently completed project was the instillation
are still very involved in the day to day running of the
of two new inline ovens in their purpose built cooking
business.
plant. One replaced an older model with the other being an
As well as looking to the past and evaluating their
additional unit. These instillations have seen an increase
strength in the market at present, the big birthday has
in production volumes by 50% whilst simultaneously
offered up an opportunity to set goals for the future as
reducing energy consumption per kg produced.
well. James T Blakemans have not been strangers to
Carrying on from this, they have received delivery of
investing in their company over the years and this is set
2 new temperature controlled delivery trailers for newer,
to continue going forward. Having already stared work on
more efficient units, with a further 3 on the way. They even
an online ordering system and app for the convenience
considered the environment when completing the designs
of their customers they are committed to concentrating
for the trailers, changing out the dark blue colours of
their future efforts and resources on further reducing the
Blakemans tradition for designs which are predominantly
company’s environmental impact.
white. These changes should mean that the refrigerated
Recently they have switched all of the refrigeration
units will not need to work as hard to combat heat
systems throughout the production process, completed an
absorption on sunny days, saving on fuel consumption.
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Fastfood Professional • August and September 2022
August and September 2022 • Fastfood Professional
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