IT’S full cream ahead for the South Coast Dairy milk production plant in Berry.
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After extensive delays, a fence has been erected on the site at Old Creamery Lane and construction is expected to start any day.
South Coast Dairy deputy chairman and Berry dairy farmer John Miller said the plant would mean future exponential growth of the company.
“Because we send our milk to Picton for processing we are restricted by the amount we can do each week,” he said.
“By building this plant, it will mean we can increase the amount of milk produced each week and cut down on travel expenses.
“It’s a win/win situation for everyone.”
Mr Miller estimated the construction would take around six months, weather permitting.
“It will mean the world when it’s done,” he said.
“We won’t have to process out of town and we will have more control of the quality.
“It will also mean we can create more local employment and put money spent back into the community.”
In the off-season South Coast Dairy produces around 25,000 litres of milk a week and that can increase up to 41,000 in peak periods.
At the moment South Coast Dairy has seven local milk suppliers.
South Coast Dairy logistics officer Sue Attard hoped to increase milk figures to 44,000 litres this Christmas.
“It’s been a huge collaborative effort from everyone to get to where we are now,” she said.
The South Coast Dairy milk production plant will pasteurise, process, homogenise, bottle and label each bottle of milk.