The site will also expand production from the current 20,000 pallets per week to 30,000 per week, though Scott has not specified a time period for this increase to come on stream.

Managing director Alan Gibson said the job creation signalled the group’s long-term commitment to investment in the Huntingdon site.

The five-acre site already employs 35 people. Scott has pallet manufacturing sites across the UK and in Riga, Latvia, producing a total of 350,000 new and 150,000 reconditioned pallets per week.