Young Spirits, an Edinburgh-based bottling and spirits business, has recently made an investment of over £200k to enable its 30,000 square-foot warehouse and storage facility to offer additional blending and chill filtration processes, allowing it to offer both small and large scale spirit processing to its range of clients.
The new equipment was supported by Scottish Enterprise funding as part of its pledge to help local businesses and will allow Young Spirits to expand into new bottling areas, explore new growth opportunities, and allow the company to continue to internationalise own brands (Ferg & Harris and Uhuru) over 2024.
The equipment includes two stainless steel blending vats, thereby increasing spirit processing and blending capabilities. The equipment upgrade allows Young Spirits to widen its automation capabilities in relation to batch control flows and to extend critical filtration processes so as to ensure the best quality of end products.
The additional chill filtration equipment and extension of the reverse osmosis plant, which allows for the creation of dioinised water, is hoped to allow the independent bottling facility, which was founded by local entrepreneurs Alex Harrison and John Ferguson, to grow business even more effectively in the next few years.
Barbara Russell Scott, operations director at Young Spirits, said: “Embarking on this significant capital investment is not just a financial decision, it is a strategic commitment to our business growth, operational excellence and continuing desire to deliver benefits for our clients.
“We strive to provide both a quality end product but also be flexible and agile for our clients, and chill filtration is just one of the exciting new services we can offer to allow us to remain competitive in the bottling category.”