A key part of the investment package is over £20m spend on further expanding the company’s award-winning Cheddar cheese business.
The company announced its investment plans at the official opening of the first phase of its investment programme – a 50,000 tonne per annum Alfomatic Cheddar cheese plant and a whey ultra-filtration plant in Dunmanbridge, Cookstown Northern Ireland.
The company has also commenced work on a new chilled products distribution centre at Kendal in Cumbria, and a major upgrade and milk bottle blowing plant with Nampak at its fresh milk facility in Pennybridge, Ballymena, Northern Ireland. The company also announced plans for additional cheese packing facilities in Great Britain, possibly at Kendal.
Speaking at the opening of the new cheese plant, Dale Farm’s Group chief executive, David Dobbin, said: “This major investment programme will enable us to further develop our added value sales in the UK and Ireland as well as into key export markets.”
Source: Dale Farm Group
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