Newrest Netherlands has opened a new production unit in Amsterdam.
Despite the global COVID-19 crisis, the Newrest group is continuing to invest in on-going improvement of its services and this new catering production unit is part of that – opening at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
Newrest now has 10,000sqm of production and storage space at the airport, and plans will use the new base for inflight catering, buy-on-board and duty free services. The new unit is located 800m from the airport runway to facilitate efficient logistics.
Halal and ISO 9001-2015 certified, the Amsterdam unit has two separate production flows for the preparation of halal and non-halal food.
The unit will supply more than 10,000 meals per day to 13 main customers and has the latest technologies in automated management, security and production, including Cobots (Collaborative Robots).