When completed, the new plant will convert fresh milk into powdered nutritional and infant formula products for export to the world’s emerging markets.
Don Canterna, SPX segment president, said: “This is a significant win for SPX in the Asia-Pacific region, and further validates the strategic food and beverage processing acquisitions we’ve made in recent years, including APV, Gerstenberg Schroder, Anhydro and BW Murdoch.
“The Gardians project will allow us to showcase the growing spectrum of food and beverage processing technologies and project engineering capabilities we can bring to bear in creating end-to-end dairy production facilities for our customers.”
Gardians was established this year by Brent Sutton, owner of Sutton Group, a privately owned, New Zealand-based food, beverage and dairy company, and Grant Paterson, an agricultural investor and owner of New Zealand-based Paterson Dairy.
Gardians anticipates that the new plant, which is expected to be operational in 2012, will have the capacity to produce 20,000 tons of powdered nutritional and infant formula per year.
Brent Sutton, of Gardians, said: “A growing world population and expanding middle class is driving demand for high quality powdered nutritional and infant formula products, particularly in the world’s emerging markets.
“We chose SPX to construct our new plant based on its deep expertise in liquid dairy and dry powder processing systems, broad range of process equipment and proven track record of successful dairy facility engineering and project management.”
SPX will be responsible for constructing the facility for Gardians and designing and installing all the technologies needed to convert fresh milk into dry powder nutritional and infant formula.
These automated systems will utilise both wet and dry food processing technologies from a number of suppliers, including SPX’s APV and Anhydro brands.
Source: SPX
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