Miniature Format Specialists
Our Manufacturing Capabilities
At Finedale Foods, we have extensive frozen and chilled foods manufacturing capabilities that we can align with your product and commercial requirements. We specialise in both cooked and ready-to-eat products (heat and eat or thaw and serve) and we are equally comfortable producing niche artisan products, complex recipes, and products that require high-volume manufacturing runs.
Miniature format products are a key area of expertise, and we have invested in our modern Norfolk manufacturing facility to be an industry leader in this field of food production.
You can find more information on our manufacturing capabilities on this page. To discuss your requirements, please contact us to speak to a member of our team.
End-to-end food production support
What We Do
At Finedale Foods, we offer end-to-end solutions and support for your business and contract manufacturing requirements. This includes facilitating innovation in recipe and packaging design and demonstrating manufacturing viability in our test kitchen, cost engineering for commercial viability, and process validation for quality and food safety.
In the planning and manufacturing stages, we handle all sourcing and procurement with well-established and robust supply chains. Our supply chain management process focuses on reliability, local sourcing, sustainable farming practices, and ethical business practices.
We then handle all aspects of production within our well-equipped facility that includes clearly defined and segregated low-risk and high-risk production areas. We have extensive packaging capabilities and can support your supply chain and logistics requirements with customised processes and expert advice and guidance.
High-volume to small batch runs
What We Produce
The equipment and capabilities of our manufacturing facility combined with our skilled and experienced team mean we can offer a versatile and flexible range of capabilities that can be adapted to produce your products. This includes high-volume, high-speed production runs, niche product small batch production runs, and everything in between.
With the investments we have made in state-of-the-art food production equipment, we have extensive automation capabilities. We have equally invested in our hand assembly and finishing capabilities, ensuring we have the expertise to handle products in different quality tiers, including highly bespoke products.
We work with the following food types:
Our equipment capabilities include:
Panner machines that apply even coatings to products, provers to get the perfect rise before baking, and glazing machines for flavouring and applying the perfect finish.
nut free factory
What We Handle
We can handle a wide range of ingredients but there are also products that we don’t handle. We also have specific dietary capabilities. We take these claims and the issue of food safety seriously, so all our claims are audited, assessed, and accredited by BRCGS – the British Retail Consortium Global Standards Global Food Safety Standard. We have a BRCGS AA rating, the highest available, giving your customers enhanced confidence in your brand and products.
Our manufacturing facility is completely nut, sesame, celery, mollusc, and crustacean-free.