Co-op gains capacity to grow share of export markets with €5m plant

Food businesses need to operate at world-class levels of performance to secure and grow their share of export markets.

Agriculture, Food and Marine Minister Simon Coveney said so yesterday when he officially opened a new €5m milk powder processing plant at North Cork Co-operative Creameries in Kanturk.

The new milk-drying plant is one of the most modern and efficient facilities in Ireland producing very high-quality milk powders, together with other operations on a single site, including casein, butter and liquid milk facilities.