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Mataura Valley Milk's new plant in New Zealand will process fresh milk and ingredients into nutritional, skim milk and whole milk powders.
Mataura Valley Milk Ltd. will construct a nutritional powders plant in McNab (near Gore) in the south island of New Zealand. The plant will process fresh milk and ingredients into value-added nutritional powders as well as standard skim milk and whole milk powders. The contract was awarded to GEA, which made the announcement in December.
The new plant, expected to begin production for the 2018 season, will produce around 140 metric tons of nutritional powder per day. Included in GEA’s scope of work is a milk reception and standardization plant, powdered and liquid ingredients handling, batch formulation, evaporation and drying, powder handling and filling into 25-kilogram bags. It will also feature a high degree of process automation and product traceability. Energy efficiency and environmental impact have also been a key focus in the plant design.