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£ 5 million investment and purchase of an adjacent site. Planning permission for the additional two acres has been approved and Exol is in the process of building more warehouses, offices and parking spaces, with the project due to complete in spring 2027 and increase the company’ s capacity by approximately 40-to-50 percent.
Heading into 2026, Steve elaborates on the business’ priorities for the upcoming year:“ The build of the new site is huge for us,” he highlights.“ It can create various challenges within your current site when you start developing a new one. We’ ve demolished a lot of storage warehouses already, so managing all those processes for 2026 is going to be a main focus. We’ re also installing four new blending vessels at our Rotherham blending plant alongside the current six, which we’ ll be refurbishing while the new vessels are online, eventually taking the capacity up to ten, enabling the site to blend more. The‘ bag in the box’ packaging will be
up and running this year and furthermore, we’ re updating our IT system to Business Central, which we believe will bring substantial benefits. Putting in a new computer system isn’ t usually straightforward, so we’ ll be prioritizing that to make sure it’ s completely functional for the beginning of 2027, allowing us to move to the next level of growth for the business.
“ Continued growth for Exol is obviously high on the agenda over the next three-tofive years,” he ends.“ Each year, we tend to grow up to three or four percent, which is promising. Hopefully, we will have grown even further in five years’ time with the increased capacity that we’ re incorporating in 2026, along with other developments and strategies. Thus, it’ s an exciting time and I’ m looking forward to seeing what the future holds.” ■
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