Northern Ireland-based milk processor Dale Farm has opened a £10m milk and cream facility at Pennyburn in Ballymena, County Antrim.
The Pennyburn plant is part of a total £39m investment announced by the company in 2010 to commission new, high-speed milk and cream filling lines, a new Nampak Plastics Europe in-plant plastic bottle blow moulding facility at Pennybridge and a new chilled distribution center.
The new Nampak Plastics Europe facility will allow bottles to be filled with milk within one minute of manufacture, claims the company.
Dale Farm group chief executive David Dobbin was quoted by belfasttelegraph.co.uk as saying that the company has already employed 60 people and another 26 jobs in Nampak's in-plant bottle blowing operation were created.
"Our investment programme will enable us to develop our sales in more added value dairy products in both domestic and export markets," Dobbin added.
