Blends is a drinks contract manufacturer and flavour house at Knowsley Business Park, Liverpool. The site cites more than 28 years in business and names Michael Rowark as Managing Director.
Its high-volume contract canning line, a Krones line with 32 filling heads, handles alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and has capacity for up to 140 million cans a year; the company says it has produced more than 100,000,000 cans. Flexible contract bottling covers still liquids including alcoholic drinks, sports nutrition, flavours, colours and syrups, in pack formats from 92ml to 5L. Ethanol is handled through ATEX-rated infrastructure. Blends also offers new product development, flavour matching, end-to-end beverage development and flavour innovation, and says more than 1,000 products have been created through its turnkey solution and that 500+ global brands have used its services.