Nestlé Tutbury

Nestlé Tutbury is a large coffee factory in Derbyshire. It is the longest running Nestlé factory in the world, outside of Switzerland.

Nestlé Tutbury
Tutbury Factory
Factory in April 2008
Location within Derbyshire
General information
Type	Coffee factory
Address	Derbyshire
Coordinates	52.865°N 1.68°W / 52.865; -1.68
Elevation	55 m (180 ft)
Completed	1959
Inaugurated	9 June 1959
Renovated	2016
Client	Nestlé
Owner	Nestlé

Nestlé is the world's largest food and drink company. The site is not actually in Tutbury, which is Staffordshire, but Hatton, Derbyshire just across the railway line that separates the two counties.^[1]

History

It made powdered milk during World War II.

New buildings

The new buildings opened on 9 June 1959.

In the early 1980s, the residents of Hatton were displeased at the noise from the factory. Steam expulsions happened every 20 minutes, throughout the night.^[2]

Nestle updated the factory in 1990, with a £5.5m investment, replacing the outdated machinery, to open in 1991.^[3] The £7m new roaster plant opened in early 1993, with a £7m extractor plant being built.^[4]

Employees

Nestlé moved its regional office staff from West Bridgford to the Tutbury factory in October 1976.^[5]

On Friday 12 September 1980 at 4.25pm, 30 year old worker Noel Dolan, of Bournville, fell 30ft to his death, when demolishing a boiler.^[6]

The local Tutbury fire station, of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, has staff from the factory.^[7][8]

Coffee production

In the 1970s Nestlé had around 50% of the UK coffee production.^[9] Nestlé introduced instant coffee to the UK in 1939.^[10] Until the late 1980s, most instant coffee in the UK was made with Robusta coffee, and the spray drying process.^[11] In 2000, Nestlé had a 56% share of the UK's £650m coffee production.^{[citation needed]}

Nestlé España have Nestlé's largest European coffee factory in Girona (Gerona) in the east of Spain, near the French border.^{[citation needed]}

All of Nestlé's UK and Ireland coffee production was moved to the site in 2014, increasing 400 jobs.

Visits

• Prime Minister David Cameron visited the factory on Thursday 24 November 2011,^[12] when the site was given £110m of investment.^[13]
• The site was featured on an hour-long BBC Two documentary about coffee production on Tuesday 17 July 2018.^[14]

Structure

The site has around 1000 employees.

Site production

It makes around 175,000 jars of coffee a day.^[15] It makes around 35,000 tonnes of coffee a year for the UK and Ireland.

See also

• Coffee portal

• Gold Blend couple
• List of countries by coffee production
• Nestlé Dalton, since 1992 has made packets of coffee mixes, and Coffee Mate, on the B5299 south of Carlisle; the factory opened in 1962
• Jacobs Douwe Egberts factory in Banbury, since 2015 owned by JDE Peet's, made Kenco until around 2023