More than 40 firefighters have tackled a fire in a factory that makes malt used in the centre of Maltesers.
Eleven crews were called to Needham Road in Stowmarket, Suffolk, at 6.23am this morning after a blaze broke out in a silo holding 130 tonnes of grain.
The fire started at the top of a 25m steel drying chamber, the fire service said, and no injuries are reported.
The Cedars Malting factory, owned by Muntons, makes malt for the honeycomb centres of the popular chocolate brand and others.
Officials said production was unaffected.
Firefighters were drafted in from Ipswich, Debenham, Bury St Edmunds, Elmswell, Ixworth, Hadleigh and Haverhill to battle the blaze.
Dr Nigel Davies, manufacturing and sustainability director at the firm, said the new silo was “smoldering”. Staff are now being allowed back on site.
“It has not caused too much damage,” he said, adding that it remains “business as usual” but that the company was hunting the cause of the incident.
