A LEADING supplier of plant products for farmers has invested £1million in its liquid fertiliser site near York.

Yara UK-owned Chafer has received a boost to increase its handling and storage facilities, which have been updated to keep pace with the increased quantity of raw materials.

A new section was built to help the company organise traffic and the firm, in Elvington, is now confident it can build on its foundations and provide even better customer service and more efficient processes.

Among the new processes will include a new ‘one way’ system to better cater for the rising number of vehicles arriving and leaving the York Road site.

For Yara it was important that the project, which included the dismantling and replacement of a 60-year-old building, be completed between the end of one season and the beginning of the next.

Darren Glegg, Yara’s Business Manager for Liquids, said: “It is Yara’s reputation for high-quality products, service and delivery to farm which enables the business to expand and this could not be compromised whilst the necessary work was carried out.

“What made the project particularly pleasing was that it was planned and managed entirely by Yara production personnel.”

The Elvington site is one of six liquid fertiliser production plants in the UK, which also include Immingham, Perth, Chedburgh, Dagenham and Avonmouth.

Yara’s business focuses on supplying and developing high quality plant nutrient products for farmers and growers.

The firm has been running for 170 years in the United Kingdom and 1843 ‘the company’s main focus has been to be a leading crop nutrition provider specialising in nitrogen fertilisers and latterly industrial products.’

It has evolved from Fisons, to Yara UK Limited via Norsk Hydro and Hydro Agri whilst incorporating Chafer liquid fertiliser and Phosyn foliar and micro-nutrient products.

The company has provided customers with ‘superior products, services and the best advice.’