About - Thomas Hardy Bottling Group

“We are focused on forming lasting business relationships and showing long-term commitment to our customers, employees and the industry as a whole, which is why we have made significant investment in the company’s infrastructure of over £24.4m since 2015.”

neil Voss. Finance director

Historic black and white illustration of a traditional English brewery with horse-drawn cart and figures in foreground.

Aerial black and white photo of a historic industrial town with a tall chimney stack, factory buildings, and surrounding farmland.

Historic stone building with dormer windows and parked car on quiet street corner in English town.

Site

20 acres site near Burtonwood, Cheshire with the operational footprint of 11 acres.
Two high speed glass bottling lines capable of filling beer, cider, FABs and soft drinks into non-returnable glass.
One high speed canning line capable of filling tonic and soft drinks into slim cans.

Employees

Group head office employing 10 people.
Management, production and logistics employing 65 people.
Additional agency staff to resource spikes in customer demand

Packaging

Bottling – capacity ~350m bottles per annum
Canning – capacity ~225m cans per annum
Warehousing

InVESTMENT

Spent £24.4m in last 6 years

Site

Located in the centre of Kendal Cumbria the has an operational footprint of 1.6 acres.
One extremely flexible high speed glass bottling line capable of filling beer, cider, FABs and soft drinks into non-returnable glass.
Extensive dry-end packaging capability includes wrap-around cartons, tray and shrink wrap, multi-pack for UK or export markets.

EMPLOYEES

Management, production and logistics employing 51 people.
Packaging
Bottling – capacity ~150m bottles per annum

Investment

Spent £5.9m in last 6 years including:
£3.5m on new Krones filler block in 2019 to meet modern requirements of filling.
£1.1m on packers for dry-end capability.

Environmental sustainability

Thomas Hardy is committed to ensuring that environmental resources will be protected and maintained for future generations. As a company we are always looking at ways to reduce our environmental impact.

Across our facilities we recycle approximately 95% or our waste, card, wood, glass and plastic. We also run reverse osmosis (RO) process water treatments, reducing our water usage across the group.

Since 2015 the group has heavily invested in new technologies and solar panels at both production facilities to reduce carbon footprint and move towards cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy.