Kitchen manufacturer and retailer Wren has opened Europe’s largest quartz worktop processing centre, creating up to 300 jobs in North Lincolnshire.

The 150,000 sq ft Scunthorpe North site will cater for “unprecedented” demand of affordable quartz stone worktops.

It will complement Wren’s current quartz manufacturing facility in Barton-upon-Humber.

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Wren began fabricating stone quartz worktops at the facility in July 2021 and the site will be operating at full capacity by December 2021.

The company is recruiting for roles at the quartz fabrication site until the end of the year.

Wren Kitchens UK manufacturing operations director Kes Serelis said: “We’ve reinvested back into our business to create this new state-of-the-art facility which is required to cope with our increased demand of fabricating high-quality quartz worktops for our customers across the UK.

“It will create a significant number of manufacturing and support roles for the region such as machine operators, team leaders, compliance officers and managers.

“It will be the largest quartz fabrication site in Europe, and we will be utilising the most sophisticated machinery in the industry such as robotic CNC saws.”

Wren currently has three manufacturing sites across North Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, with this its second site in Scunthorpe.

In addition, it has developed a specialist quartz storage facility at its headquarters in Barton-upon-Humber, as well as five quartz delivery depots across the UK in Gateshead, Watford, Thurrock, Basingstoke and Exeter.

To deliver the quartz, Wren has its very own bespoke double-decker lorries with A-Frames to secure the stone during transit.

In addition, works are also progressing on Wren’s new £120 million kitchen manufacturing and assembly facility at its headquarters in Barton-upon-Humber.

The 1 million sq ft site will open by summer 2022, which will create 900 new jobs.

Launched in 2009, Wren Kitchens is a family business which employs over 5,500 people across its sites.

It has more than 100 showrooms in the UK and, in 2020, Wren launched into the USA manufacturing and retailing kitchens.