An improving economy and greater customer demand for space has seen frozen food specialist Yearsley Logistics expand again. Russells Construction has completed work to bring online an additional 50,000 sq ft of space at the firm’s Heywood headquarters.
The Trafford-based contractor laid the super-insulated floor slab to complete the cold store, which operates at minus 22 degrees, and enable its use as the second part of a three-phase project. The shell of the building was constructed last year as part of a major £20m investment in infrastructure by Yearsley Logistics, the UK’s leading cold storage provider, which is now being fitted out with Power Automated Systems state-of-the-art automated racking.
The new facility adds another 12,000 pallet spaces to Yearsley Logistics capacity at Heywood, taking the site’s total to 60,000 pallet spaces over approx 300,000 sq ft. The firm has need for the space due to additional storage requirements of existing customers.