Wren Kitchens has invested £20m in Europe’s largest quartz worktop processing centre.
The 150,000sqft in Scunthorpe will create up to 300 jobs and cater for what the chain says is an ‘unprecedented demand for affordable quartz stone worktops.
It will complement Wren’s current quartz manufacturing facility in Barton-upon-Humber and will be at full capacity in December.
‘We’ve reinvested back into our business to create this new state-of-the-art facility which is required to cope with our increased demand of fabricating high-quality quartz worktops for our customers across the UK. It will create a significant number of manufacturing and support roles for the region such as machine operators, team leaders, compliance officers and managers,’ says says Kes Serelis, Wren Kitchens UK manufacturing operations director.
‘It will be the largest quartz fabrication site in Europe, and we will be utilising the most sophisticated machinery in the industry such as robotic CNC saws.’
Wren currently has three manufacturing sites across North Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, this will be its second site in Scunthorpe. It has developed a specialist quartz storage facility at its headquarters in Barton-upon-Humber as well as five new quartz delivery depots in Gateshead, Watford, Thurrock, Basingstoke and Exeter. To deliver the quartz, Wren has its very own bespoke double-decker lorries with A-Frames to secure the stone during transit.
Works are progressing rapidly on Wren’s new £120million kitchen manufacturing and assembly facility at its headquarters in Barton-upon-Humber, which will create a further 900 jobs. The 1million sqft site will open by summer 2022.
