Caramels specialist Nigay to deliver €30 million investment, with new French production plant
The Nigay family has an especially strong heritage in caramels, with the business dating back around 170 years. Pic: Nigay
With around 170 years experience within the caramels production category, French-founded business Nigay has launched a significant new chapter in its development with a €30 million fund for a new production plant, reports Neill Barston.
As the business explained to Confectionery Production, its investment plan, which has been formulated over the past year, will be rolled-out over a three-year period to enhance its production capacity.
According to the company, its new site at Saint-Quentin, northern France, is similar in structure to its existing site at Feurs, and the plant in Nesle, and its additional location will be dedicated to the manufacture of caramels for the food industry and artisans. The building work on the project (artists’ impression below), is scheduled to start in the second half of 2025.
Significantly, the business, which is continuing on its planned growth trajectory, already supplies more than 450 products through the world, three quarters of its sales coming from exports, and a team of more than 350 employees. This new production site, together with its two other prime locations, will strengthen its position as one of the world’s top 3 caramel producers.
Moreover, the new production facility will combine: – Price competitiveness and CSR policy, by being at the heart of the production of its main raw materials and the various river, sea, rail and motorway transport networks to optimise its carbon footprint.
It will take an approach based on excellence, to provide its customers with ever-better service, by integrating high-tech processes and equipment thanks to its know-how and Nigay expertise.The Saint-Quentin plant will create from the beginning around thirty jobs, with a plan to increase the workforce over the coming
years.
As previously reported, the company’s latest facility continues a steady stream of investment for the company’s future, with a total of €20 million having been allocated to the development of the second of its sites in France, which was announced in 2017, and began two years later. This underlined the company’s sense of ambition to scale-up its overall operations.
