Masteroast to brew up new jobs!

Masteroast are delighted to receive a £50,000 grant from the Eastern Agri-Tech Initiative. This will be used to improve the production facilities and create more than 10 new jobs in the Peterborough area.

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The initiative run by the Greater Cambridge, Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has granted over £2 million to 24 businesses in Cambridgeshire to date and we are thrilled to be the latest business to win the award. 

The grant supports a £250k in new production lines and product development. These new products will allow for growth in specialist sectors such as the airline and travel following on from recent success with Easy Jet and Virgin Trains. The £50,000 award we will create more than 10 jobs from operational and production roles to account handlers and Admin support. 

• Nespresso compatible packing lines. 
  
• Launching the first fully compostable coffee capsule. 
• A new coffee bag packing line.
• Improved coffee production and automation systems.

The equipment to be installed is a specialist Nespresso compatible capsule packing line, it will offer the first fully compostable capsule and we are delighted to be making this capsule available to the UK market. We plan to have this new state of the art packing equipment installed by the end of July, and fully operational soon after! 

Andy Fawkes - Managing Director

"We are delighted with the news. The support will bolster our position as an INNOVATOR in the coffee sector. It underpins our support to the region and means more jobs in peterborough" 

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The Eastern Agri-Tech Growth Initiative still have grants available. If you're a company looking at getting a grant for specialist equipment, new market and supply chains, ways to improve productivity and efficiency or research and development this Initiative could help you. www.agritechgrants.co.uk  

Enterprise Partnership article

Peterborough Telegraph article