All Your Irn Bru Is Belong To Us

A fantastic tour around Barr's as part of Doors Open Day today. First a view of the mixing and bottling in the factory from. No photos of that I'm afraid,anything loose not allowed in case they get dropped in the machinery and we were all overalled up as well, Truly amazing watching it move along the conveyor belts from the mixing tanks into the bottles or cans (they produce 96,000 cans per day) to be packaged up and palleted. They have a giant clinfilm wrapping maching to shrink wrap a pallets worth at speed. Everything moves at speed, some of the lines just an orange blur.
Then a move onto the warehoiuse/distribution centre, where I took this shot. It doesn't give any idea of the scale. There are half a dozen double sided bays, an dyou can't see the back. The shelves are 18 pallets high - 270 feet! The fork-lift retrieval system is completely automated - again the cranes whizzing back and forward at speed. This represents only about 2 weeks worth of stock, apparently when its warm, it can go straight from the production line to the lorries. A few times it was mentioned that they need more space and are looking across the road.
A quick trip round the small museum with some memoribilia, Irn Bru has always been known for its advertising, to round it off. And a goody bag to take home :-)
Many thanks to AG Barr and Doors Open Day.