Nestlé Tutbury is a large coffee factory in

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. It is the longest running Nestlé factory in the world, outside of Switzerland. Nestlé is the world's largest food and drink company. The site is not in Tutbury, but slightly north on the southern edge of Derbyshire.

History

It made

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during World War II.

New buildings

The new buildings opened on 9 June 1959. In the early 1980s, the residents of

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were displeased at the noise from the factory. Steam expulsions happened every 20 minutes, throughout the night. Nestle updated the factory in 1990, with a £5.5m investment, replacing the outdated machinery, to open in 1991. The £7m new roaster plant opened in early 1993, with a £7m extractor plant being built.

Employees

Nestlé moved its regional office staff from

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to the Tutbury factory in October 1976. On Friday 12 September 1980 at 4.25pm, 30 year old worker Noel Dolan, of Bournville, fell 30ft to his death, when demolishing a boiler. The local Tutbury fire station, of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, has staff from the factory.

Coffee production

In the 1970s Nestlé had around 50% of the UK coffee production. Nestlé introduced instant coffee to the UK in 1939. Until the late 1980s, most instant coffee in the UK was made with Robusta coffee, and the spray drying process. In 2000, Nestlé had a 56% share of the UK's £650m coffee production. Nestlé España have Nestlé's largest European coffee factory in

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(Gerona) in the east of Spain, near the French border. All of Nestlé's UK and Ireland coffee production was moved to the site in 2014, increasing 400 jobs.

Visits

* Prime Minister

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visited the factory on Thursday 24 November 2011, when the site was given £110m of investment. * The site was featured on an hour-long

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documentary about coffee production on Tuesday 17 July 2018.

Structure

The site has around 1000 employees.

Site production

It makes around 175,000 jars of coffee a day.Production
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References

External links

Nestlé Tutbury

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