Bottling at source.

Travelling through the Ochil Hills you’ll see a small collection of buildings that we call home. However most of the real work is done deep beneath the surface of the protected 2000 acre catchment area that surrounds us. Once the water has spent 15 years making its way through heather, earth and rock, it arrives filtered and pure at the spring. This is where we take over; carefully bottling and shipping Highland Spring to our customers.

It rains a lot in the Ochil Hills, so there’s always a lot of water at the spring, and always a lot to do at our plant. We work 24 hours a day, seven days a week producing 90,000 bottles every hour. In 2006 we bottled around 240 million litres of water.

As part of our usual day to day activities, we’re committed to finding ways to improve what we do. Since 1979 we’ve spent more than £50 million in developing the plant and the brand. Some of the improvements are simple, and some more advanced – for example, we now operate a state-of-the-art bottle moulding facility on-site to make us that little bit more efficient.

The money we’ve spent on development has certainly paid off. Not only is our land now certified as organic but our total quality procedures have won us several Gold awards from the British Bottlers Institute.