A UK dairy company has just completed a £1.1 million (€1.3m) upgrade to encourage greener ways of working’.

The work was carried out by Clegg Food Projects at Dairy Crests site in Derbyshire.

A new link building between the milk bottling site and the adjacent factory that makes plastic bottles means there is a reduced need for vehicle movement across the site, which can bottle up to 250 million litres of milk per annum.

"It was an unusually complicated project since we had to access the bottle-making site while there were still vehicle movements and people working at the site," explains John Moxon, business development director at Clegg Food Projects. "That required a flexible and co-operative approach to working with the client that meant we could both achieve our aims."

The new link building means that bottles are now moved between factories on conveyor belts rather than by wagons, as they were in the past. This has led to the reduction in vehicle movements across the site, which has consequently seen a fall in overall emissions and diesel fuel use.