GEA Process Engineering has been awarded a €40 million project to build a
15 t/hr whole milk powder plant for Fonterra in New Zealand. The project, known
as the Darfield project, is due to be commissioned in August 2012 and will be
undertaken by GEA Process Engineering New Zealand.
The customer,
Fonterra is a world leading exporter of dairy products processing around 90 %
of New Zealand’s milk production and a major player in international dairy
trade.
The Darfield project is the largest project ever undertaken by
GEA Process Engineering New Zealand. The project will be similar in capacity to
three plants previously built by GEA for Fonterra.
The scope for the
Darfield project, which utilizes only GEA technology, covers milk reception,
standardization, evaporation, drying, powder transport and packing. In
addition, the project in-cludes the construction of the building in which
the plant will be housed. The plant is the sixth Greenfield plant that GEA
Process Engineering has supplied in New Zealand over the past four years.
Fonterra’s tender process encouraged the suppliers to draw on
Fonterra’s considerable experience as well their own. “This allows the
synergies arising from both parties to be combined to build on the
state-of-the-art technology supplied by GEA,” says David Bower, Managing
Director of GEA Process Engineering New Zealand.
The driver for the new
plant capacity is increased milk production in the South Island of New Zealand.
The end products of the new plant, will service the growing markets in Asia,
where the demand for milk powder products is rising.
Further
information
For further information please contact Managing
Director for GEA Process Engineering New Zealand, David Bower, direct nr.:
+64-9-5263344.
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About GEA Process
Engineering
GEA Process Engineering develops, designs, and markets
production plant equipment and processes for the dairy, brewery, food,
pharmaceutical and chemical industries. With sales close to EUR 1.3 billion in
2010 and 4,600 employees working in more than 40 countries, GEA Process
Engineering is recognized as a world leader within liquid processing,
concentration, industrial drying, powder processing & handling, emission
control, solid dosage forms & sterile products, and aseptic packaging. GEA
Process Engineering is a business segment of GEA Group, headquartered in
Germany.
About Fonterra
Fonterra is a global leader in dairy
nutrition – the preferred supplier of dairy ingredients to many of the world’s
leading food companies. Fonterra is also a market leader with our own consumer
dairy brands in Australia/New Zealand, Asia/Africa, Middle East and Latin
America.
The farmer-owned New Zealand co-operative is the largest processor
of milk in the world, producing more than two million tonnes of dairy
ingredients, value added dairy ingredients, specialty ingredients and consumer
products every year. Drawing on generations of dairy expertise, Fonterra is one
of the largest investors in dairy based research and innovation in the world.
Our 16,000 staff work across the dairy spectrum from advising farmers on
sustainable farming and milk production, to ensuring we live up to exacting
quality standards and delivering every day on our customer promise in more than
100 markets around the world. For further information www.fonterra.com