Denby Dale-based Buckley's Dairy Farm has produced milk at its West Yorkshire site for over 85 years. However, last year a fluorescent light shorted and caused a fire that burnt the operation to the ground.

Six months later, after a lot of hard work and assistance from Moody Systems, general manager Steve Buckley was back producing his 200,000 litres of milk a week in a brand new dairy.

'With over 200 cattle at the farm, there was always a possible risk that Foot and Mouth would affect production, but a fire was the last thing we expected. It came as quite a shock,' said Steve Buckley.

Working in collaboration with the Buckley farm team, Moody Systems provided a complete finished milk storage facility, and designed, manufactured and assembled a glass bottling handling system.

The latter involved Moody refurbishing a Dawson re-crater, completely rebuilding a crate washer and udec filler, as well as over-coming the intricate integration of the line with an existing bottle washer. All pipe-feeding and inter connecting with conveyors was also handled by Moody Systems.

'Moody proved very helpful at all times on various aspects of the rebuild project. My expectations were very high and Moody fulfilled them,' added Steve Buckley.