Polish Dairy Cooperative Mlekpol Invests In Grajewo Plant Expansion

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Polish dairy cooperative Mlekpol is investing 400m zlotys ($110m) successful its works successful nan municipality of Grajewo to standard up nan accumulation of cheese.

The rate will beryllium invested from this twelvemonth done 2029 and will impact expanding retention infrastructure, adding caller food packaging lines, updating equipment, and automating technological processes.

Mlekpol said successful a connection that nan task to “significantly upgrade” nan Grajewo facility, wherever its office is based, is expected to make caller jobs and will beryllium supported by taxation reductions from nan Suwałki Special Economic Zone.

The area is 1 of 14 group up by nan Polish authorities to foster economical growth.

Tadeusz Mroczkowski, nan president of Mlekpol, called nan finance task a “historic milestone” for nan group.

“As 1 of nan largest investments successful Mlekpol’s history, it will boost our processing capacity, streamline operations, and fortify our position some successful Poland and internationally,” Mroczkowski said.

Mlekpol declined to supply nan finer specifications of nan investment, including nan number of further food accumulation lines and caller jobs, and whether nan task will impact AI aliases robotics, erstwhile approached by Just Food.

According to Mlekpol, nan dairy co-op is 1 of nan largest successful Poland and Europe, representing complete 7,500 beverage producers. Across each of its facilities, nan business processes six cardinal litres of beverage daily.

It operates 13 accumulation plants successful Poland: Grajewo; Zambrów; Mrągowo; Kolno; Suwałki; Radom; Bydgoszcz; Sokółka; Dąbrowa; Białostocka; Zwoleń; Łódź; and Gorzów Wielkopolski.

Mlekpol’s website says nan co-op produces astir 500 products, including UHT milk, cream, fermented dairy products, butter, cheeses, beverage powders, buttermilk, whey powder, and whey macromolecule concentrates.

The co-op supplies nan unit and foodservice channels, arsenic good arsenic B2B customers. Brands see Łaciate, Milko, Mazurski Smak, Rolmlecz, Jogo, and Maślanka Mrągowska.

As good arsenic supplying nan section market, Mlekpol exports to much than 100 countries successful Europe, nan Middle East, Asia, Africa and nan Americas.