GEA to build Asia’s largest milk production facility in India
GEA has received an order from the AmulFed Dairy in Gandhinagar, a unit of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), to build a new turnkey dairy plant in India that can produce 150 tons per day of skim milk powder and 120 tons per day of dairy whitener/baby food.
GEA has received an order from the AmulFed Dairy in Gandhinagar, a unit of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), to build a new turnkey dairy plant in India that can produce 150 tons per day of skim milk powder and 120 tons per day of dairy whitener/baby food. The milk powder plant is scheduled to begin production in 2018.
When completed, the plant will be the largest skim milk powder and dairy whitener plant in Asia. The company markets its milk and milk products under the Amul brand and its baby milk powder under the name of Amul Spray.
The plant, to be installed on a turnkey basis by GEA, will process around 90,000 L per hour of milk to produce multiple value-added products. AmulFed already has two milk powder plants in the same location supplied by GEA. Together they make AmulFed the largest plant in Asia at a single location. The new plant features GEA’s most advanced safety system and uses hygienic architectural design principles to make it one of the most advanced GEA has built to date.
“We will provide AmulFed with a hygienically superior plant that will deliver peak performance,” said Abhay Chaudhari, GEA country managing director, India. “The AmulFed milk powder plant at Gandhinagar will not be just the largest in Asia but it will also be the most environment friendly.”