This is a result of declining cow numbers and lower milk production profitability, the FAS says. The trend has eliminated smaller and less efficient farms. The decrease will also be seen in factory use consumption, where it is expected to drop by 0.3%. “This is requiring dairy processors to carefully decide for which products they will use the available milk,” reports Anna Galica of the FAS Warsaw office.

Cheese remains the top product made in the EU, with solid domestic consumption and strong export demand driving this. It is expected to hit 10.62 MMT, up 0.6% from 2023. Also driving the cheese sector is both exports and hospitality and tourism, where the former’s growth saw a 3.6% increase in exports, and should expand in 2024 by 2.1%, up to 1.4MMT. A growing popularity of speciality cheeses is benefiting EU exporters, the FAS notes.

However, this will come at the expense of butter, non-fat dry milk (NFDM) and whole milk powder production, according to the FAS. Butter is set to drop by 2.1% to 2.07 MMT in 2024, while NFDM will decrease by 5.8% to 1.4 MMT, with the latter seeing weakness due to lower milk availability and reduced exports due to less Chinese demand. NFDM exports are down by 7.6% versus 2023 levels, and domestic EU demand has also dropped due to the lower use by the food processing industry, as higher prices for cocoa beans reduces demand for NFDM for chocolate production.

Galica says that the EU dairy sector continues to have concerns connected to the new Common Agricultural Policy and the EU Green Deal directives, which are negatively weighing on farmers’ decisions to continue production.

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The main reasons for this decision were explained to employees. First, the cost structures at the Heilbronn and Schefflenz sites are too high and not competitive. In addition, there is an enormous need for investment at the Heilbronn site, which further exacerbates the situation. Secondly, In the highly competitive dairy products market, which includes the yogurts and desserts produced at the Heilbronn site, significant volume growth and the resulting cost efficiencies are not expected in the medium to long term.

Cornelia Heiser, managing director responsible for the Landliebe business, says, “A comprehensive economic analysis has shown that, under these conditions, the two production sites have no prospect of returning from the deep red to a profitable business in the long term. We will integrate the product portfolio into other German locations of the group. We are aware that this decision will cause uncertainty among employees and will start talks with the works council as soon as possible with the aim of finding socially acceptable solutions.”

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The project includes a 30-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Saputo Dairy UK, a producer of leading British food brands. The partnership between Lightsource bp, which recently committed to developing 25GW of solar projects by 2025, and Saputo Dairy UK, furthers the growth of the renewable sector through the construction of the solar project.

Speaking about the project, Zosia Riesner, Lightsource bp’s director of Power Markets, Europe, commented: “There is no doubt that things need to change for us to combat climate change, and corporations are a huge piece of the puzzle. We are part of a small group of companies who are in the privileged position to be able to offer a solution and support corporations such as Saputo as they take strides towards a greener future.

“As governments continue to strengthen their sustainability policies and targets, our subsidy-free PPA solutions, and partnerships with corporations, are vital in helping governments achieve their net-zero ambitions.”

The Cornwall-based project includes a new substation and cable connecting the solar park to the creamery to deliver an estimated 5307MWh of electricity annually. This is equivalent to powering approximately 1,400 UK homes or 3,400 electronic vehicles a year.

Tom Atherton, president and chief operating officer of Saputo Dairy UK, commented: “I’m delighted that the solar park at our Davidstow creamery in Cornwall is now fully operational. We are always looking for ways to improve our environmental impact and this project enables us to save more than 1,470 tonnes of CO2 a year – that is the equivalent of taking 810 fuel-burning cars off the road.

“By delivering 10% of the creamery’s annual electricity demand, this is a great example of just one of the projects Saputo is investing in to reduce the carbon intensity of its global operations by 20% by 2025.”

Scott Mann, MP for North Cornwall, said: “This is an extremely exciting project which I have been in support of and I congratulate Saputo Dairy UK and Lightsource bp for delivering it. I am delighted that the operation at Davidstow will now go forward with a large contribution from solar energy, helping not only our local environment in North Cornwall, but the UK’s ambition to achieve a net-zero economy.”

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Growth for commercial use of milk in all dairy products was positive for fat and skim solids due only to increased US exports, as domestic commercial use dropped by 0.5%. In contrast, US exports amounted 17.6% of its domestic milk solids – the highest ever, as US consumption of fluid milk and American cheese drops. US milk production was growing steadily for decades, however production growth was negative for one in every six, three month rolling averages over a 25 year period, signifying the growth instability.

Decreasing numbers of dairy cows are a major driver behind the 0.7% decrease in milk production from the previous year, which is attributed to decreased domestic dairy consumption, in addition to rising costs of feed, as more expensive feed means farmers are keeping less cows in order to save money, or feeding their cows less, resulting in decreased milk output.

This marked decrease in cow numbers and dairy product production is reflected in stocks and prices in the dairy industry, with figures sitting at similar levels to 2014, whilst butter and cheese figures see their lowest since 2000. These figures are expected to continue into 2022, according to Dairy Futures, with US milk production predicted to rise only 0.7% from 2021. It is also anticipated that US milk solid exports will reach yet another record.

To view the full DMI Dairy Market Report, visit: https://issuu.com/nationalycprogram/docs/jan._2022_dairy_market_report

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“Due to the current infection events and the associated quarantine requirements, there is a risk that there is a significant part of the employees in the dairy industry will be away from work for weeks. Without the possibility of flexible working time controls, this would lead to a significant bottleneck in production and logistics and endanger the security of supply of milk and milk products”, says Eckhard Heuser, chief manager at the MIV.

“We need a legal order, which allows for more flexible working time management to operate the dairy industry with the elevated infection and quarantine numbers,” continues Heuser.

On the MIV wish list are, among other things, the possibility of Sunday work and 12-hour shift.

As the dairy industry has a significant responsibility for supplying the population with staple foods and are in close connection with the milk producers, whose cows give milk every day, it’s important for the dairy industry that things go smoothly.

“It is important to maintain the chain from milk production to the processing to the shelves of trade regardless of the violent external influences. This has so far been well done, what we are proud of,” states Heuser.

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As a result, its production is expected to increase by 10% in 2022. It is also introducing a fully Saudi female operated line for the Riyadh site, account to Asharq Al-awsat (english.aawsat.com).

Henrik Lilballe Hansen, vice president and managing director for Arla Foods Saudi Arabia noted the country is one of the leading markets for dairy products in the region and has “become a focal point for our production expansion goals.”

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The economic effects of the Covid-19 outbreak drove the Argentine economy further into recession, affecting demand trends. Though GDP growth has resumed after three years of recession, fluid milk consumption is now projected to drop sharply as the buying power of ordinary Argentines erodes through lack of income due to job losses, exhaustion of savings, and high inflation decreasing their purchasing power. The Argentine government has attempted to support continued consumption through a variety of measures, including by fixing prices of a wide range of products, including certain dairy products, in an effort to restrain inflation for staple food products. While the Argentine peso continues to lose value in the parallel market and has surpassed $200 per dollar, the official exchange rate remains artificially strong at $106 pesos per dollar, resulting in economic distortions affecting the relative values of imported inputs and exported products.

This scenario is not very different from the one in the 2020/21 financial year, when the economic results of the dairy farms were not bad, but much worse than in the previous years. While domestic consumption is not be expected to quickly recover, exports are in a position to remove the threat of highs stocks in the domestic market, especially in a world in which the other main exporting countries are unable to increase their milk production sufficiently to meet continued firm global demand.

According to the Observatorio de la Cadena Lactea (OCLA – Dairy Supply Chain Observer) data, the domestic market is the destination for 74.7% of the national milk production and the rest, 25.3%, to exports. Of what is destined for domestic consumption, most is marketed through the retail channel (96%), while the rest is sold to industrial buyers and is marketed through industrial and institutional channels (2% each).

The FAS is adjusting the calendar year 2021 consumption numbers from USDA’s figures of 1,825 million tons to 1,710 MT and maintains the same estimate for consumption of 2020. Argentine domestic demand fell in 25.1% 2021 due to a contraction in GDP, and it does not anticipate any recovery during 2022.

Covid-19 quarantine-related closure of many restaurants in the greater Buenos Aires area that dramatically reduced demand for mozzarella cheese, are beginning to recover as these restaurants have reopened.

Dairy exports

Total exports for 2021 are estimated at 313 MT, almost 11% higher than 2020.

According to contacts, though exports in 2021 are higher than those of 2020, they show a strong monthly oscillation due to several factors. They started very high in January due to the Brazilian production problems in December 2020, which accumulated in January, then normalised in February, and grew strongly again in March due to the improvement of prices. From then on the industry faced some logistical problems, both internal (difficulties in ports and administrative challenges) and external (availability of containers/ships) that delay exports and produce low months and high months.

The main export product for Argentina is whole milk powder. In a context of an estimated 4% production growth, with a sharp drop in domestic demand and an international market in demand with very firm prices, it is logical that the main destination for growth should be this product for export. Approximately 38.2% of the volume exported in 2021 for the first 10 months was in the form of WMP. Post estimates total exports of this product for 2021 at 142 MT. Algeria accounted for 73.4% of the total volume exported, followed by Brazil. Williner is the company that exported 16.2% of the total for this period, followed by NOAL with 14.2%, and Mastellone Hnos. with 10.6%. The average export price in October was US$3,530 per ton.

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With the same assumptions, skimmed milk powder (SMP) exports are forecast to increase to 20,000 MT, 11% higher than the revised estimated figure for MY 2021. Butter and SMP estimated export figures have been revised to match with trade data. Since milk production is growing in tandem with domestic consumption, any uptick in future demand for milk-based products may lead to a general expansion in dairy imports.

Around 54% of milk production is marketed through milk cooperatives and/or unorganised players such as milkmen and contractors. India’s five largest milk-producing states, accounting for over half of the national production, include Uttar Pradesh (16%), Rajasthan (13%), Madhya Pradesh (9%), Andhra Pradesh (8%) and Gujarat (7%).

FAS New Delhi forecasts India’s fluid milk consumption in 2022 at 85 MMT, up by 2.5% from the USDA official MY 2021 figure of 83 MMT. Post attributes this increase to rising population numbers along with greater product affordability and availability in the retail and foodservice sectors. Indians are turning, in increasing numbers, to the consumption of milk in the pursuit of higher protein intake. India today is not only the global leading milk producer, but it has also become the largest consumer of milk.

Post forecasts India’s 2022 production at 700,000 MT, an increase of almost 3% above the USDA official 2021 figure of 680,000 MT. This increase is attributable to anticipated stronger prices and increased export demand. Increased demand for reconstituted milk and consistent exports of skimmed milk powder (SMP) are the major drivers supporting increased production. The SMP market is accustomed to the Indian procurement system, with its predictable remunerative cash flow. However, it is slowly developing a marketing network for high-value perishable goods. Post forecasts India’s 2022 butter production coming in at 6.5 MMT. The increase results largely from improving incomes that are leading to an uptick in domestic demand for butter.

FAS New Delhi forecasts India’s SMP consumption in 2022 at 694,000 MT, up by 2.5% from the earlier USDA official 2021 estimate figure of 680,000 MT. Similarly, butter is forecast at 6.4 MMT, up by approximately 3% from the MY 2021 estimate of 6.2 MMT. Post is revising its 2021 estimate figure to 6.289 MMT to better match up with the domestic market situation.

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“Having a new state-of-the-art facility in Little Chute will help us solidify our leadership position in the dairy industry. Beyond speed and efficiency, the new processes and equipment will provide greater flexibility and will allow Agropur to offer a broader line of products to meet our customers’ needs. With this new plant, we’re increasing production capacity so Agropur can help its clients live up to their brand promises,” says Doug Simon, president, US operations at Agropur.

The $168 million (€160.7m)  investment is Agropur’s second largest ever in the US, after the expansion of its Lake Norden, South Dakota facility in 2018.

“The announcement of this significant investment highlights our commitment to modernise our asset base in both Canada and the United States and expand our cheese manufacturing activities in the US Midwest. It pursues the vision behind other major projects we have carried out, such as the Lake Norden plant, which has already reached record production levels in recent months,” says Émile Cordeau, CEO of Agropur.

The innovative facility with an area of more than 210, 000 square feet will increase capacity and expand Agropur’s production of cheese and ingredients. In addition, the project will involve construction of a cutting-edge waste-water treatment facility that will generate energy, supporting our sustainability efforts.

The new plant will be built just north of Agropur’s existing Little Chute facility at 2701 Freedom Road. The facility’s milk processing volume should more than double, from 300 million pounds to 750 million pounds per year. The expanded plant is expected to be fully operational by early 2023.

With sales of approximately US$5.7 billion, Agropur has grown to become the fifth-largest producer of cheese and dairy ingredients in the United States and one of the 20 largest dairy processors in the world. With this new ultramodern facility, Agropur will create up to 54 new jobs for local workers. Given the current labour shortage, recruiting activities will be key in the months prior to the commissioning of the plant.

The Little Chute expansion will also lead to a significant increase in milk demand from local farms that supply Agropur. Wisconsin is the state with the most dairy farms, 6,700 to be exact, and the dairy industry has considerable economic weight in the state.

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It’s not a bad idea. Get the kids while they’re gaming, and you’ll have a lifetime customer who associates your product with the happy times they had shouting and giggling on their consoles with other children. I often throw dairy products at the child while he is involved in whatever pursuit is going on, on the tv. Handier ones would be welcome. Things like yogurts and some cheeses can get sticky when in play.

Meanwhile, companies such as Nestlé continue to invest in research and development accelerator programmes, to find the next big thing, whether it is in dairy, or non-dairy, products. The dairy giant has opened up a new site in Lausanne, Switzerland recently.

These schemes are very popular. Food Works Ireland is a cooperation between three government agencies in the country to find more new products using Irish ingredients, and is now looking for ten new participants for the next tranche. Over 100 companies that have already completed the programme since it began in 2012. “The programme aims to support and assist rising stars to achieve their ambitions in domestic and international markets, all the time working toward enhancing the global positioning of Ireland’s food and drink sector,” says Tara McCarthy, CEO of Bord Bia, one of the agencies involved.

Indeed, I see cooperation increasing between these programmes worldwide, especially as most of the big accelerators like the ability to scale up to export. It’s enough to get a dairy person all pog. But then again, as my son reminds me, that’s cringe when your mother says things like that. Totally mank.

(Pog – play of the game, cool, used to convey enthusiasm or excitement. Cringe – when someone acts so embarrassing or awkward, it makes you feel embarrassed/awkward. Mank – horrible.)

Visit: usdairy.com/research-resources/new-product-competition, FoodWorksIreland.ie, rdaccelerator.nestle.com

• Suzanne Christiansen, editor, Dairy Industries International.
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“The demand for organic milk products is increasing and consumers are becoming more aware of regional and environmentally friendly foods,” says managing director Karin Artzt-Steinbrink.

The new location doubles the production area to 3,300 square metres. There will also be enough space for the trucks to maneuver over an area of 5,000 square metres.

In the course of planning the new building, the dairy put its packaging to the test. It commissioned Fraunhofer Umsicht with a life cycle assessment study: What is more sustainable: composite beverage cartons, plastic stand-up pouches or reusable glass bottles? The researchers took into account the production, transport and disposal of the various packaging options.

“We are very pleased that our study helped us decide on a sustainable investment. Our work is intended to support companies in improving their ecological balance sheet and becoming more sustainable,” says Anna Schulte, Sustainability and Participation Department at Fraunhofer Umsicht.

“We didn’t just want to react to a current trend. We wanted to find an ecologically sensible solution for our dairy. In order to obtain a basis for decision-making, we therefore decided on an individual packaging study,” explains Artzt-Steinbrink.

According to the study, glass becomes more advantageous for the dairy in comparison to composite milk cartons, if the number in circulation increases to up to 20. The higher the returns and the shorter the distances, the more sustainable the glass variant is in comparison.

The study also shows that the ecological balance of the bottle will improve even further in the next few years, as it will increasingly be transported with more environmentally friendly trucks.

After evaluating the study, the shareholders of the dairy decided to invest in a new packaging line for reusable glass in addition to the line for composite cardboard. The brown glass bottles are to be offered primarily in the region in the future.

“Since reusable glass can be used many times over and is also very easy to recycle, we are reducing the amount of waste and supporting the circular economy. We continue to rely on our cardboard packaging for deliveries to regions further away,” Artzt-Steinbrink notres.

In the new production facility, yogurt is to be produced for the first time and offered in 500g reusable jars. The former production site in the town center will produce only sour milk quark in the future. The milk museum, the organic shop and the administration will also remain at the historic site of the former mountain dairy, which was founded in 1898.

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To avoid soy from overseas, the Austrian dairy industry has banned palm oil products from the stables, so for over ten years it has been using the sustainability standards with no GMOs, as well as sustainable calf feeding. The fodder base is green fodder grown in Austria, the use of which also forms the basis for maintaining the meadows and the diversity of species in the grassland.

“For the Austrian dairy industry, this study is a renewed wake-up call for more awareness-raising for a sustainable purchasing policy on the part of buyers in the food trade and also on the part of consumers. A clear label of origin is necessary so that everyone can see, what they are buying and that they can support this environmentally friendly path through their daily purchase decision. Sustainable enjoyment is possible, and high-quality, local dairy products are the guarantee for it,” says Petschar.

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The scope of Royal HaskoningDHV will include design, procurement, construction management, commissioning and start-up of the facility, as well as assistance in the transfer from the existing factory to the new facilities at Bandar Enstek, Negeri Sembilan. Quality, safety, health, environment and sustainability will be at the heart of the design of the new factory.

DLMI managing director, Tarang Gupta, said: “As Malaysia’s leading dairy company, I’m very excited to partner Royal HaskoningDHV to build our new production facility that will revolutionise our supply chain processes to enable us to produce DLMI’s range of nutritional products, with the added scalable capacity to manufacture other innovative variations in the future driven by consumer trends and occasions.

“The experience and expertise of Royal HaskoningDHV will ensure DLMI’s new dairy hub in Negeri Sembilan is world-class and infused with the latest environmental-friendly technology, to further improve efficiency and productivity to produce more products to nourish more Malaysian consumers and increase milk consumption in the future,” Gupta added.

The construction of the new production facility will empower DLMI to grow further and contribute to the development of the Malaysian economy and the local dairy sector. In addition, the new state-of-the-art factory will help increase Negeri Sembilan’s competitiveness to attract new investments and to create new spin-off economic benefits to the local economy as well as to vendors.

Royal HaskoningDHV director, Business Unit Multinationals René Dahmen said: “We are thrilled to again partner Royal FrieslandCampina. By combining our experience in food and beverage, sustainable business and digital technology, we are proud to be able to tap on our 140 years’ experience to design an agile plant that will help DLMI further grow their footprint in Malaysia.”

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“It all comes back to the customers,” says CEO David Lenzmeier. “We always strive to make the best products on the market and deliver better value to our customers. The project we just completed at our Visalia facility furthers our ability to deliver a high-quality product at a good value.” Milk Specialties Global produces lactose for a wide variety of organic and conventional specifications to meet customer needs; this expansion will help support those offerings.

Milk Specialties began producing milk protein concentrate at its Visalia facility in 2012, and permanently acquired the facility in 2019. The company has since invested in significant improvements, including expanding capacity and operational efficiencies to improve the Visalia facility’s carbon footprint. In addition to its expanded role in lactose production, the Visalia facility produces other milk proteins and micellar casein.

Additional information about Milk Specialties Global, including the benefits of its proprietary processing methods, can be found on www.milkspecialties.com.

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This “prize for societal and environmental commitment” is the recognition of Ingredia by the ANIA (which groups together the flagship of the French food industry), for its committed and innovative collective action in the service of a sustainable dairy production rooted in a living territory.

Selected by the ANIA from major names in the food industry and before a prestigious jury, Ingredia was awarded the prize for excellence of an entire industry. Presented by the managing director of Lesaffre, an international player and neighbour of the Hauts-de-France, the prize for social and environmental commitment is the recognition of a group of women and men united by CSR, an agile and innovative company, promoting all the links in the regional dairy chain.

According to the organiser, “in the current context of economic and social crisis linked to the Covid-19 Crisis, the ANIA and EY teams are more than ever keen to reward and value companies that have been able to resist and adapt to feed the French despite the difficulties. Business leaders and their employees who embody the future of the French food industry.”

Composed of about 460 employees, subsidiary of the dairy cooperative Prospérité Fermière and its 1200 members in the Hauts de France, Ingredia is today a representative player of the possible synergy of a territorial anchorage with international development.

“We are very honoured by this award, which rewards the efforts made for several years by all the actors of our company, farmers, transporters, employees, partners or customers, to strengthen our responsible approach towards society and the environment. We are proud to be a leader in dairy innovation to better feed the planet and protect the environment and people’s health. ” declares Sandrine Delory, general manager of Ingredia.

This prize rewards Ingredia as an innovative player, who with the startup Connecting Food launched the first milk connected with blockchain technology. Ingredia offers bottles of milk, cream and dairy ingredients under blockchain, a world first, which raises Ingredia from BtoB to FtoC (Farmer to consumer), with real time audit by the consumer.

“It is a blockchain that guarantees traceability from producer to consumer ‘Actor! ”comments Julien du Boisgueheneuc, Ernst & Young development director (Western region).

This pioneering technological initiative connects breeders and consumers in complete transparency, providing access to the origin of the milk through a real-time digital audit. The breeders of Prospérité Fermière, located within a radius of 80km around the Ingrédia dairy, are committed to respecting the company’s eco-responsible specifications: cows fed without GMOs, straw in the barn, minimum grazing area for animal welfare, guaranteed price to the breeder.

“This prize is a great recognition of the work of our members. The breeders of the Prospérité Fermière cooperative are resolutely turned towards the world of the 21st century, a world where consumers are demanding in terms of quality and transparency,” concludes Serge Capron, president of Prospérité Fermière.

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This group of private sector, non-profit, and research organisations will engage in a two-year programme designed to increase the supply of nutritional dairy products available to local communities and guide women smallholder farmers in methods that bolster nutrient-rich forages (corn silage and hay) production – providing reliable feed for dairy cattle, improving milk production and reducing the production cost of those dairy products.

FGI’s participation in the alliance highlights its leadership in the forage industry and is an example of the business’ recent renewed investment into new technologies, dairies and global brand building, while remaining committed to being an R&D and innovation leader.

“We’re excited to play a part in advancing the dairy industry in Kenya and helping make an impact on the lives of these women who are leading this effort while feeding their neighbors,” said Pete Theisen, general manager, FGI. “This project is directly in line with FGI’s commitment to advancing the forage industry and supporting dairy farmers.”

In addition to FGI’s forage leadership, the alliance combines Corteva’s leadership in agricultural inputs and support of smallholder farmers with ILRI’s locally-based, world-renowned forage R&D capabilities and livestock management practices. Land O’Lakes Venture37 will contribute its extensive experience adapting advanced technologies and techniques to the smallholder farmer level and facilitating last-mile delivery of key inputs. Bidco Land O’Lakes, a Kenya-based feed manufacturer, works closely with these collaborators to offer compound feed that complements effective forages.

“This alliance, through its advancement of animal nutrition in Kenya’s dairy sector, is simultaneously advancing human nutrition and human success – a shining example of Land O’Lakes’ guiding purpose: feeding human progress,” said John Ellenberger, executive director of Land O’Lakes Venture37. “Through its combination of private sector investment, local expertise, applied data and technologies, and last mile delivery, this alliance is helping to make markets work more effectively for lower-resource populations. Strategic alliances like these are a foundational element of our current work and future ambitions.”

¹Kenya Dairy Board – www.kdb.go.ke

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OSM Piątnica has added 2 MW of power and 2 MW of heat supplied by a new Cat G3516H gas generator set with integrated CHP technologies at its production plant in Podlaskie Voivodeship, northeast Poland. This most recent installation supplements an existing 2 MW cogeneration system originally installed in May 2012 by Eneria and Caterpillar. In addition to providing the dairy cooperative with energy autonomy, the system supplies up to 30% of the process steam required for the production of high-quality pasteurised milk, cheese, butter and yogurt.

Eneria seamlessly integrated the new cogeneration capabilities with the existing system, including sound attenuation technologies needed to minimise the impact on dozens of residents in homes located just a few meters from the plant.  Additionally, Eneria Poland provides ongoing service and maintenance for the system through a multi-year Customer Value Agreement.

“Over the past 70 years, OSM Piątnica has built a reputation in Poland and throughout Europe for innovative products, sustainable business practices, and exceptional quality,” said Stanisław Soliński, vice president of OSM Piątnica. “This efficient cogeneration system helps support our plans for growth by supplying added power and heat for our rapidly expanding production lines while helping to minimise the impact of our operations on the environment as well as on our neighbours.”

Facilities can reduce operating costs by implementing a Cat cogeneration combined heat and power (CHP) system or a trigeneration system incorporating cooling. This enables the units to simultaneously provide power for electrical loads as well as thermal energy for a facility’s heat and cooling requirements. Any Cat natural gas-fueled engine can be configured specifically to support facility processes or heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) requirements.

While the combination of grid power and traditional boilers for thermal energy offers less than 50% energy efficiency, CHP systems from Caterpillar can provide total energy efficiencies of up to 90% or more. This allows the customer to save on energy spending, provide autonomy of supply and reduce emissions.

“OSM Piątnica is recognised around the world not only for the quality of its dairy products, but also for its progressive approach to doing business,” said Sven Buehler, territory manager for gas product sales at Caterpillar Inc. “Advanced cogeneration technologies from Eneria and Caterpillar will provide the energy independence and process heat needed to help OSM Piątnica continue innovating as the company grows.”

Caterpillar delivers innovative power systems engineered for exceptional durability, reliability and value. The company offers worldwide product support, with parts and service available globally through the Cat authorized service and dealer network. In addition, dealer technicians are trained to service every aspect of Cat equipment.

For more information on Caterpillar’s CHP capabilities, visit: cat.com/CHP.

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The CDIC will feed dairy innovation efforts for the state with collaborations between California dairy producers, processors, and universities.

“The ‘centre’ is not a physical building or organisation, but rather a co-operative effort to leverage the tremendous brain trust of our California colleges and universities as well as the California dairy industry as a whole to support our mutual goals,” John Talbot, CEO of the CMAB says.

The CMAB is currently recruiting for a director to run the new centre. The role will also include coordinating research projects, and being a point of contact for researchers, educators, and business development representatives, as well as for processors interested in innovation efforts. This post will serve as an advocate for the dairy community by promoting innovation, product development, and workforce support; in addition to implementing competitive advantages for the dairy industry, according to CMAB.

California is the US’s top milk-producing state and is the second-largest producer of cheese and yogurt in the country.

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“Covid-19 has demanded a lot from us in Germany as well. But thanks to fast and efficient crisis management, we have managed to continue our business successfully and also to serve the peaks in demand in the retail sector, especially in March and April. It was crucial that we worked very agile and closely with our customers. In addition, we have accepted additional costs due to the coronavirus in order to meet the significantly increased demand under difficult conditions,” says Markus Mühleisen, the Germany boss at Arla Foods.

In order to ensure smooth production, Arla once again significantly increased the existing hygiene and safety measures in its two large German dairy plants in Pronsfeld (Rhineland-Palatinate) and Upahl (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).

As the focus in the first half of the year was on the stable continuation of the overall business, Arla held back with the introduction of new products in the German market during this time. The focus here was on the Arla Skyr brand with the introduction of a 1kg pot of Arla Skyr Natural and the new Arla Skyr recipe, which makes the product even smoother.

In the second half of the year there is again a stronger focus on new products: recently Arla launched an organic natural yogurt made from 100% pasture milk in vanilla or lemon flavours.

Arla has pushed ahead with the switch to more environmentally friendly packaging in the area of sustainability as well. For example, with its fresh Arla organic pasture milk, the new milk carton has one less packaging layer, making it lighter and made from 100% unbleached cardboard. Renewable raw materials are used in the manufacture of the plastic for the lid and the inner lining of the box.

The 1kg cup from Arla Skyr has also been converted to a new container, which is made from 4% less plastic than the previous cup and is 100% recyclable.

In addition, Arla is taking a stand against food waste in private households by participating in the ‘Often good for longer’ campaign by the social impact company Too Good To Go. In the first half of the year, numerous Arla products were printed with the label ‘Often longer good’ in addition to the best before date, such as all Arla Skyr products, Arla organic fresh pasture milk and numerous types of Arla Buko cream cheese. More products will follow in the coming months.

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