Fruit specialist Worldwide Fruit is upgrading its Spalding division.
The company is to move from its present West Marsh Lane headquarters to a new base in Wardentree Lane, Pinchbeck.
The £5m development is expected to be operational as soon as October and includes an 8,500 sq ft office block and an environmentally friendly 52,000 sq ft factory which will hold state-of-the-art ripening facilities.
Worldwide Fruit chief executive officer Robert Balicki said that the development will not mean redundancies, and he hopes that further expansion of the site will result in the creation of more jobs.
He said: "Although the move will be quite neutral in terms of jobs and redundancies, hopefully by going forward with the new site we will expand in size and personnel, though nothing solid is in place at the moment.
"To meet the demands of our customers a more appropriate facility was required with a purpose-built factory to guarantee our efficient levels of production.
"The new cold storage and ripening rooms are low maintenance and
reduce our year round energy costs."
The factory will consist of four large fully racked cold stores, ten double tier ripening chambers and a 22,000 sq ft temperature controlled packing hall,
Excess heat created from the packing hall will be recovered to heat the offices.
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