Our Factory

Made here. Made to your spec.

A gluten-free meat factory in the Shropshire countryside, making sausages, burgers and bespoke products for kitchens since 2000.

Gluten-free as standard

Everything we make is gluten-free as standard. No gluten-free version, no separate list, one less allergen to manage on your menu.

No gluten ingredients in production

Our own gluten-free binder, no rusk.

Every guest gets the same dish

One sausage, one burger, one menu for the whole table.

Full allergen info on every spec sheet

Ready to hand to your team or an inspector.

How it's controlled: every ingredient is approved before it comes on site, every supplier provides a specification, and the whole system is SALSA audited.

What we make

We're a full catering butcher too, so your fresh meat comes on the same delivery. These are the products we manufacture ourselves. See the full range

Gluten-free sausages on a wooden board

Sausages

Family recipes developed over 25 years, natural casings, linked in-house.

Burgers coming off the drum press at Buttercross

Burgers

Pressed on our rotary drum press for consistent weight and shape, burger after burger.

Tray of Buttercross pigs in blankets

Pigs in blankets

Made at serious volume every Christmas for one of the UK's best-known pub groups.

Slices of Buttercross gluten-free black pudding

Black pudding

Made here, gluten-free, in sticks and trays.

Tray of handmade Buttercross faggots

Anything through a mincer

Faggots, meatballs, stuffings and sausage meat, made to your recipe.

Your recipe, made here

Bespoke manufacturing in four steps, so you know exactly what working with us looks like.

1

Tell us what you need

Your recipe, a dish you want to recreate, or a problem ("our burgers are inconsistent across sites").

2

We develop and sample

We make test batches; your chef tastes and tweaks them.

3

We sign off a spec

Agreed recipe, weight, pack and allergen sheet, so every batch matches.

4

We make it, every week

Consistent production with next-day delivery, or pallet distribution further afield.

Good to know

  • Minimum batch size: 10kg.
  • Lead time from brief to first delivery: can be as short as a week.
  • Own-label packs: yes, we can pack under your label.

Kitchens are short of time and short of staff. If your team is making something by hand every week, there's a good chance we can make it for you, the same every time.

Inside the factory

We're a family business on a farm near Market Drayton. Martyn and the team have been making sausages here since 2000. It started in an old farm building and grew into a dedicated gluten-free factory supplying pubs, restaurants, caterers and care homes across the region.

Keith, a Buttercross butcher, breaking down a side of pork at the bench
Keith at the bench.
Pigs in blankets being wrapped by hand at Buttercross
Pigs in blankets, wrapped by hand.
Rows of Cumberland sausage in trays at Buttercross
Cumberland sausage, trayed up for dispatch.
Buttercross Butchers delivery van outside a customer's venue
Out on delivery, six days a week.
Martyn, co-founder of Buttercross, with pigs in a field
Martyn, who started Buttercross in 2000.

Standards and paperwork

SALSA certified

An independently audited food safety standard for food producers.

Approved plant GB NQ 008

An approved food manufacturing site.

Full traceability

From supplier to delivery.

Spec sheets

Spec and allergen information available for every product.

Food hygiene rating: 5

The top rating, awarded by the local authority.

Making since 2000 · Delivering six days a week · Shropshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire and beyond