Lakeland to create 81 jobs at €36m milk powder plant

Lakeland Dairies Group is to create 81 jobs during the next five years with the €36m expansion of its milk powder processing operations at Bailieboro, Co Cavan.

Up to 180 construction jobs will also be created by contractors during the building, installation and commissioning phases for the facility.

Lakeland expects to boost its intake by 40% to over one billion litres by 2020, up from its annual intake of around 800m litres of farm-produced milk. Lakeland processes milk into a range of value-added dairy foodservice products and food ingredients which it exports to over 70 countries worldwide.