The first milk for its retail customers has today rolled off the filling lines as Arla Foods puts the finishing touches to its new Aylesbury dairy in Buckinghamshire.
Arla has invested over £500 million in the UK since 2007 and commenced building the Aylesbury site in February 2012. The £150 million state-of-the-art dairy is set to be the world’s largest fresh milk facility with the most technologically advanced and efficient processing, and an ambition to be zero carbon when it reaches full capacity.
The new dairy will have a capacity to process one billion litres of fresh milk, sourced from the cooperative’s British dairy farmers.
Peter Lauritzen, CEO, Arla Foods, said: «Our Aylesbury dairy is the largest single investment for the cooperative and, as market leader, Arla is setting the future standard for the dairy industry. We are now beginning to ramp-up our operations.
Source: 4-Traders
