The next chapter
Project Angel
Our next chapter
project angel
July 2014
First Quotes received
The first quotation for Inverness new Plant was received in July 2014.
2017
First Bairds Meetings
The first Project Angel kick off meeting was held in August 2017.
2018
Board Approval
Board approval was granted in October 2018, ensuring financial backing for the investment.
2019
Planning Application submitted
Planning Application was submitted to Highland Council in January 2019, permission was received in February 2020.
2020
Spade in the ground
Bairds broke ground in October 2020 with construction beginning at the Inverness site.
2023
NEW PLANT OPERATIONAL
Planning Application was submitted to Highland Council in January 2019, permission was received in February 2020.
Investment for the next chapter
Bairds Malt hold a proud record with the most recent malting plant investments in the UK. We built a new state of the art maltings at our Arbroath site in 2010, providing a quality malting product to meet increasing demand from Scotland’s distillers.
Work is now complete at our Arbroath facility, with the refurbishment of the Clova malting plant, increasing production capacity by 22,000 metric tonnes (mt) per annum.
Further to the development of Arbroath, a new malting plant has also been constructed at our Inverness facility on Longman Road, increasing capacity by 57,000mt per annum.
Project angel
At a glance
Project Angel
BARLEY
malt capacity increase (mt)
MT Barley Required
DATES
First conversations held
new plant becomes operational
INPUT
MORE THAN 500 OPERATIONAL MEETINGS UNDERTAKEN
MORE THAN 400,000 MAN HOURS WORKED
A sustainable approach
malt made better
At the heart of our new Inverness maltings is a state of the art water filtration system that allows us to treat and reuse existing resources on site. This means that we are able to produce an additional 57,000mt of malt through our new plant without using any additional water on site.
Dr Richard Broadbent
President, Bairds Malt Ltd
good news for scotland’s distillers
As Scotland’s distilleries continue to grow, the capacity of UK maltings needs to keep up. Twice in the last decade we have answered the calls of our customers who want the provenance of UK malting barley. As we continue to grow alongside our distilling partners, we’re ensuring the future is secure for the next generation.
good news for scotland’s growers
At Bairds we pride ourselves on sourcing barley from growers local to our maltings. As we continue to grow, we will require more malting barley and as our customers put increasingly more emphasis on provenance on traceability, we want to cement our position as the UK’s leading maltster.
the world’s best whisky – it starts here.
Our business was founded on the vision of two brothers who saw the success that quality malt could bring to the wider brewing industry.
Nearly 200 years later that commitment to quality malt remains and underpins everything we do as a business.
We recognise that Scotland’s best whiskies require quality malt, and that quality malt needs the UK’s best barley. As well as being a proud member of the UK assured malt scheme, Bairds also runs the most intensive seed trial development programme in the UK in partnership with our Scottish Merchanting Partner, Scotgrain Agriculture.
This programme allows us to develop new seed varieties over several years and trial them in different growing climates of Scotland. We then run the harvested crop trials through a micro malting programme to allow us to test the performance of each new variety from drill to still.
Long before the new make spirit begins its journey of maturation, the story of Scotland’s greatest export is entrusted to the generations of Scotland’s growers who partner with us to bring the best barley into your casks. We believe that the world’s best whisky begins with the grain.
on the eastern seaboard
Arbroath redevelopment
Our Clovas were first built back in the 1980s as part of a development then. Fast forward 40 years and we have redeveloped our Arbroath site to take full advantage of the benefits of these unique germination and kilning vessels. As both processes take place in the same vessel this minimises energy usage and the need to transfer the malt between the two stages, resulting in a process that is a lot gentler on the kilned malt.
in the heart of the highlands
a new maltings for inverness
Our new malting plant has been constructed at our Inverness facility on Longman Road, increasing capacity by 57,000mt per annum. Construction of the new state-of-the-art malting plant is now complete, with the first batches of barley having passed through the new maltings.
malt matters
drill to still
The unsung hero of the distilling process (in our humble opinion).
We partner with the world’s leading distillers worldwide to supply the best of quality malt for your distilling needs.
