Eurofins unveils £1.5m expansion of Wolverhampton food testing labs
Eurofins, the food testing company that was one of the first to move to the i54 development site in Wolverhampton, is spending £1.5 million on a major expansion.
Work is now under way on an extension to the UK headquarters building, adding 1,000 sq metres – more than 10,000 sq ft – of new laboratories.
The Belgian-owned company moved its existing Wolverhampton operations onto i54 five years ago.
Now Eurofins Food and Water Testing UK & Ireland has given the green light on a £1.5m expansion that will expand the food and water testing capabilities of its Wolverhampton laboratories, where it employs around 180 people.
Its customers include many household names including several supermarket retailers.
Patrick Harte, general manager at the Eurofins site, said: "This extension reinforces our commitment to further increasing the services we can offer, harnessing our world-leading laboratory expertise.
"Our investment also means we are future-proofing the facility, widening the scope of what we can offer, giving customers even greater insight to help them make truly informed commercial decisions."
The development will see food microbiology laboratories expanded on the ground floor, while water hygiene testing will be expanded in a new first floor extension, alongside a larger staff canteen. Work is expected to be finished by the autumn.
It boosts the capabilities of the site, adding to investment in the expansion of food chemistry and contaminants completed in 2016.
Eurofins Food and Water Testing UK & Ireland is made up of 11 laboratories and considers itself the world leader in food, feed and water testing, with a broad range of state-of-the-art analytical techniques to support its customers' increasingly stringent quality and food safety standards.
It is part of Belgian-based Eurofins Scientific, which operates worldwide with 27,000 staff in 310 laboratories.
