News & Articles
A collection of the latest news from the business as well as industry commentary and advice.
Latest News
What is Blast Freezing?
Blast Freezing: What it is and how it works. Using Blast freezing to preserve food quality and nutritional content. Intro Blast freezing is a rapid cooling technique that has revolutionised the way food is preserved across the cold chain. By freezing products to below...
Direct – To – Consumer. Pick & Pack.
Magnavale: Your Trusted Partner for D2C Cold Chain Fulfilment. Here at Magnavale, we offer a variety of contract packing and fulfilment services for the food manufacturing sector. Our current services offer product and order packing, re-packing, and...
Contract Packing & Repacking
Contract Packing At Magnavale we offer a variety of contract packing and repacking solutions from our UK facilities. Contract packing is the practice of outsourcing product packaging to a specialised company. This approach can be highly beneficial as it allows...
Developments
Magnavale Easton Approaches Finish Line
Set to open in Q3 2024, our development taking place at our Easton site is approaching the finish line. In recent weeks, we have watched the development come together piece by piece, with the installation of refrigeration pipework, cladding, roofing, and the...
Magnavale Easton Nears Completion with Installation of Monorail
As we prepare for the launch of our new 101,000-pallet cold store, Magnavale Easton, we are excited to share the installation of high-speed monorails. Installation began in July 2023, with the monorail system being one of the most technically challenging aspects of...
Magnavale Easton Development Over 75% Complete
As a leading UK provider of temperature-controlled storage, we are pleased to share an update on our new £130 million automated temperature-controlled facility being built in Easton, Grantham. Since breaking ground in 2022, the project remains on schedule for...
Service-Related Articles
Magnavale Easton: Complete.
We are very proud to announce the official opening of Magnavale Easton. The facility has capacity for 101,000 frozen pallets spaces, making it is the largest single cold store ever built in the UK and officially opened its doors on the 24th of March 2025. Our...
Supporting Supply Chains: Magnavale Expands Chesterfield Cold Storage
25,000 Pallet Expansion - Now Complete We are thrilled to announce that the expansion of our Chesterfield temperature-controlled storage facility is officially complete and operational. Providing an additional 25,000 pallet positions and bringing the total...
Storage Solutions for Frozen Goods
Storage Solutions for Frozen Goods Our temperature-controlled storage solutions consist of ambient, frozen, and chilled warehousing, along with connected value-added services, across our network of sites. Frozen food storage has lots of benefits; from reducing...
Date Coding at Magnavale
Date Coding Date coding is one of many critical processes within food production, as prints need to be precise and legible, in order to prevent food safety issues, which could directly affect consumers. There are several types of date labels applied to food products,...
Heat Sealing with Magnavale
Magnavale is not just a UK coldstore; we are a business that offers a range of convenient value-added services for the food chain, including effective food co-packaging services such as Heat Sealing. What is Heat Sealing? Heat Sealing is the process of sealing plastic...