Whisky industry process engineering firm Briggs of Burton is set to open a new Scottish hub.
Since 2010, when the business completed its first Scottish project with Loch Lomond Distillery, the company has witnessed growth in the area.
The Scotch whisky sector saw global exports hit £6bn in 2022, with Briggs of Burton announcing the opening of its new office in Moray.
The office will lead six new projects in Speyside, while servicing existing clients, including the Glenlivet, Glenfiddich, Dalmunach and Mortlach distilleries.
Rob Buxton, managing director at Briggs of Burton, commented: “Expanding into Morayshire, the ancestral home of the distilling industry, felt like the natural progression for Briggs of Burton, given its longstanding history of work within Scotland.
“We are working on contracts ranging from £3m to £30m and the new office will support ongoing growth, create at least 10 jobs and reduce our carbon footprint by bringing our expertise closer to clients.
“Briggs of Burton has experience in delivering distillery projects in key spirit producing regions and this new premises will allow us to further deepen our knowledge of the Scotch whisky industry as well as support jobs and investment.”
The firm has secured premises at Forres Enterprise Park, which comes in addition to ownership of Scottish copper still manufacturer McMillan, based in Prestonpans.
Originating from Burton on Trent, Briggs of Burton specialises in delivering process engineering in an environmentally sustainable way to help distilleries reach their decarbonisation targets.
The company is designing, expanding and building new distilleries around the world, covering North America, Central America, Europe, Africa, Australia, Japan and China.
Briggs of Burton’s portfolio of clients include William Grant & Sons, Diageo and Chivas.
The firm recently partnered with Ardgowan Distillery to lead the design, build and engineering of its new carbon negative distillery, and is also supporting Brown-Forman to double its production capacity at the GlenDronach distillery in Aberdeenshire by implementing operational energy efficiencies and supplying traditional Scottish copper distillation equipment.
Briggs of Burton is also the parent company to McMillan Coppersmiths & Fabricators - based on the outskirts of Edinburgh - which manufactures distilling equipment, such as traditional Scottish copper pot stills.
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