Shepley Spring Order Two New Krones Labellers

Shepley Spring was established in 1996 and operates out of two plants near Huddersfield West Yorkshi…

Shepley Spring was established in 1996 and operates out of two plants near Huddersfield West Yorkshire. In the relatively short time since the company was founded they have become a leading integrated independent own label and contract water bottler.

This fast growing company is well known for brands such as Ice Valley, White Rock, Pennine Valley and Greenmoor Spring together with their own label customers that include some of the major retailers and cash and carry outlets in the UK.

Shepley Spring currently has four bottling lines with their own blowmoulding capacity along with a Krones Filler, a Krones Canmatic and a Kosme labeller – both hot-melt cut and stack - and two new Krones Contiroll hot-melt reel-fed labellers. The company’s Operations Director Charles Smith said, “We have been growing very quickly of late and the summer of 2013 was great for us. We wanted to explore reel-fed labelling as opposed to cut and stack hence our choice of the two Krones Contiroll Labellers. The savings in label materials to date has been staggering.”

Mark Heath, Sales Director of Krones UK commented, “The recent orders from Shepley Spring are another example of a growing independent company that reaches critical mass and then opts to go for the best available equipment, as they have done with this latest order. We have dealt with Shepley Spring for many years, and they have recently started buying Krones adhesives for their existing bottling lines. The Krones Contirolls now account for over 80% of their total label production due to the significant savings that reel-fed plastic labels offer versus cut and stack paper labels. Having established an excellent reputation with Shepley Spring when the filler was installed, we were then thrilled when we were given the chance to supply the new Krones Contiroll labellers.