#Fonterra expands Taranaki operation

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Dairy company Fonterra is to invest $30 million further-expanding its Whareroa site in Taranaki.


The project is to expand its dry distribution centre and follows a $23m upgrade of the Whareroa coolstores last year, bringing the total capital investment in the site’s logistics infrastructure to more than $50m since 2011.
Fonterra director of logistics, Mark Leslie, said the project was part of a drive to simplify Fonterra’s supply chain and reduce the associated costs.
«Our capacity to process milk continues to increase, which means that our storage capacity must grow to meet this,» he said.
«Where possible we want to store product at the point of manufacture to reduce costs.»
Fonterra has steadily increased on-site storage capacity by building four distribution centres since 2008 at Crawford Street in the Waikato, Mosgiel near Dunedin, Kauri in Whangarei and Darfield in Canterbury.
«This investment at our Whareroa facility will improve our logistics network’s storage capacity and address existing capacity constraints in the region,» Leslie said.
«This means we are able to reduce the number of freight movements from where a product is manufactured through to delivery to the customer, which reduces our carbon footprint and ultimately saves on transport costs.»
Construction is expected to be finished by August next year.
 
Source: Stuff

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