The new drier will enable the dairy cooperative to process an additional 2.4 million litres each day.
Fonterra’s director of NZ operations Robert Spurway said the Co-operative’s continued investment in milk powder driers was to meet the growing demand for dairy nutrition globally and demonstrated Fonterra’s strategy of optimising its New Zealand milk business.
The announcement of the investment at Pahiatua comes less than a week after the Co-operative celebrated opening the world’s largest milk powder drier at its newly completed site at Darfield in Canterbury.
Preliminary earthworks have begun at the site and construction of the drier and associated infrastructure will start in mid-December.
The first milk powder from the new drier is expected to roll out of the site by September 2015.
Source: Fonterra
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