MP inaugurates Detectamet traceability equipment

Over the past 10 years Detectamet, based in East Yorkshire, has grown to become a worldwide specialist in product traceability in the food industry.  Its latest piece of high-tech equipment, a laser marking machine, enables marking of its products to boost efficient and fast traceability.

In addition to sequential numbering of products Detectamet has been asked to add company and department identity to support efforts to reduce cross contamination around the factory.

The new equipment was inaugurated by Sir Greg Knight who is the local Member of Parliament.  Sir Greg was paying a visit to Detectamet to learn more about the company’s success over the past ten years. Sir Greg said: “I visit many businesses, both small and large, and I have been very impressed with what I have seen at this world-leading company.”

Sir Greg Knight initiates the Detectamet Laser service with Sean Smith, Angela Musson and East Riding County Councillor Andy Burton.

Sir Greg took a great interest in the company’s use of government services to encourage exports around the world and took notes of the suggestions from the company’s founders Angela Musson and Sean Smith.

Detectamet is one of Yorkshire’s biggest business success stories of the past decade. Sean said: “The company was formed a decade ago with nothing more than a laptop and a good idea. We had no customers, just ambition and a determination to make a go of it.

“I’d worked in the plastics industry for 30 years, mostly serving the food sector, and Angela and I saw an opportunity to help food manufacturers and processors overcome their issues caused by contamination. The answer lies in detectable polymers.

“With most food processing companies already checking their finished products using a metal detector, it meant these detectable tools or their parts could be found and the contaminated product rejected”.

Within eight months had relocated to a small unit on the Pocklington Industrial Estate. Today, the company employs almost 50 people, and its own extensive range of more than 180 products rising through variables to in excess of 1,000.

Angela said: “It has been an exciting first decade for Alle Artikel