Our Production Facility

In 1996, Macsween moved from a butchers shop in Bruntsfield to Loanhead, just outside Edinburgh, where it had built the world’s first custom-built premises dedicated to haggis manufacture.

This new facility was carefully planned to suit Macsween's very particular needs.  The family soon discovered that paper plans were not enough to envisage the working space needed and so pegged out a string plan of the factory in John and Kate Macsween’s garden.  With years of small scale production experience behind them, they gradually worked out how their processes could evolve in their new premises.

The site was extended to include a new packing hall, which was formally opened by HRH The Duke of York in 2003, marking the company's 50th anniversary.  The more efficient working environment has revolutionised the production processes, making it much easier for Macsween to meet strict European and British Retail Consortium standards, levels of quality you would expect from a leading haggis brand.