Irecently interviewed millers and bakers at a wide variety of locations across the UK to find out how they were coping with keeping their vital businesses running during a pandemic. The two milling companies Carr's mills, Fife, Scotland and Wessex mill, Wantage, Oxfordshire, are widely separated by geography, and by size and capacity. In fact, Carr's mills operates three mills: the Hutchison mill in Kirkaldy, Scotland, The Silloth mill in Cumbria, and the Maiden mill in Essex, England. The Hutchisonmill is the largest and most technically advanced mill in the UK. By contrast, the Wessex mill in Wantage, Oxfordshire represents the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of size, but it shares many of the same issues when dealing with the fallout fromthe COVID-19 pandemic.
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