Inside Sprunk / 5 min read
Four million cans before lunch: a morning at the Tudor plant
Where the essence gets bottled, canned and occasionally sprayed on the ceiling.
The Sprunk plant in Tudor, Alderney runs twenty-four hours a day across eleven lines and one break room that is technically a twelfth line. At full speed it fills two thousand cans a minute, which is loud enough that the staff have their own sign language. Most of it means 'not again'.
The recipe lives in a safe in the plant manager's office. The safe has never been opened, because the combination is also in the safe. We consider this airtight.
The essence room
Visitors are not allowed into the essence room. Neither are most employees, and since a small incident in 2011 neither is the plant manager. What we can tell you is that it smells of lime, that it hums, and that the people who come out of it are in an excellent mood.
Two thousand a minute. Some of them even stay in the can.
Sprunk Stories is published by The Sprunk Company, Tudor, Alderney. Everything here is true in the sense that we wrote it down.
