Expansions across all our Scottish operations

Scotland – November 8, 2024 – Boortmalt, the leading producer of high-quality malt for the brewing and distilling industries, is pleased to announce investments in all its Scottish operations.  

“Since 2020, we have focused much on the successful integration of Cargill malt at the global level. As a group, we are now in shape to develop our footprint further in strategic markets such as Scotland” said Yvan Schaepman, Group CEO of Boortmalt. “This expansion paves the way for subsequent ones and demonstrates our commitment to our Scottish suppliers and customers.”   

Our production capacity will increase by 40kMT at our Buckie maltings and 15kMT at our Glenesk maltings.  These investments to increase capacity support local distilling customer demand for the highest quality premium malt.    The expansions will be on stream in the first quarter of 2026 delivering high quality malt from the 2025 barley harvest. 

“We embrace the drive and ambition of our customers to reduce the carbon footprint of their products and by investing in our operations and enabling supply chain solutions for our FLAG commitments we not only support this but we drive impactful change” said Stuart Sands, MD of Boortmalt UK and Ireland.  

Boortmalt is dedicated to reducing its carbon footprint and promoting sustainable practices across the industry having received SBTi approval for their commitments which include reducing Forestry, Land and Agriculture (“FLAG”) emissions by 30.3% by 2030.   

In Scotland, Boortmalt sources 165kMT of premium malting barley locally from farms.    The new expansions create additional opportunities for more than 70kMT of quality premium malting barley in the local Scottish farming community.