More than 90 per cent of its output is exported to its main markets in the UK, Greece, Bulgaria and the Middle East.AllergyEats is the leading guide to finding food allergy-friendly restaurants (and those not so friendly) across the United States. It recently launched a fresh tortilla product on the Irish market and is about to roll out a new product line-up aimed at its Middle East customers. The Flat Bread Company employs 29 people and makes both pizza bases and tortillas/wraps. This has saved us a significant amount of downtime.” “This was replaced by an efficient, highly automated, flexible system which was designed in-house by our engineering manager, Gerry Naughton. “It was driven by a poorly designed, troublesome, inefficient transmission system which caused a great deal of downtime in our factory,” he says. A cooler is used during the baking process and the company’s original system left something to be desired according to company co-founder and managing director, Kieran Walsh. The Flat Bread Company was set up in 2008 and while its name may not be familiar to Irish consumers, its products will be – it supplies the thin and crispy crust bases used in Domino’s pizzas. By coming up with a smart idea to re-engineer a piece of troublesome baking equipment, the Clara-based Flat Bread Company saved itself €900 an hour in machine downtime and greatly improved its efficiency. Of equal value are new process innovations, especially in a manufacturing environment. NEW INNOVATOR: INNOVATION IS not all about new products.
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